Word: welterweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Winthrop House boxers also claimed three individual titles. Norm Wyner scored the most impressive victory of the evening by a TKO of Tony Murray of Leverett in the welterweight clash. In the 155-lb. match, Ray Daley won a decision from wild swinging Cisco Pisature of Kirkland, while Ed Carey won from Frank Ingoldsby of Dunster. The three victories gave Winthrop 15 points, three short of Dudley's winning total...
...Welterweight champion Carl Bobo Oison, in his first outing since he won the title in a final elimination bout with Britain's Randy Turpin, scored a fifth round knockout Saturday night over tough Joe Rindone of Roxbury, Mass...
...York City, Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan, who has his eye also on the middleweight title, won the Edward J. Neil plaque as Fighter of the Year...
...Chicago, Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan successfully defended his 147-lb. title by trouncing Chicago's Johnny Bratton in a lopsided 15-rounder. Gavilan's next objective: the middleweight (160 Ibs.) championship, now held by Hawaii's Carl ("Bobo") Olson...
Carmen Basilio is a swaggering young (26) ex-marine with the biceps of a riveter and the combative instincts of a Brahma bull. As a prizefighter, he has won 36 out of 51 professional fights, and out of this indifferent record has won the title of New York State welterweight (147 Ibs.) champion. Boxers respect his clumsy punch, but Basilio cuts easily, and when he earned a shot at the world championship, the experts thought him easy meat for a slashing hitter like Cuba's Champion Kid Gavilan. Last week, fighting in his home town of Syracuse, Underdog Basilio...