Word: welterweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other incumbent champs were not as fortunate. Marvin Johnson wrested the WBA light-heavyweight crown from Victor Galindez on an 11th round TKO, and challenger Sugar Ray Leonard copped the welterweight crown with a TKO of defender Wilfred Benitez five seconds from the end of the fight...
...sleek vocabularies of "planetary realism," sounds like an item from The Whole Earth Catalog. Brown possesses a disco Jesuit allure and what seems to be a gut instinct for the politics of the future, but has far to go before he persuades the nation he is anything but a welterweight opportunist. Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford are ambassadors from the past. Other Republicans such as Howard Baker and George Bush suffer, like the President, from an absence of stature...
Nina Lahoud took the 115- to 125-lb. class, and Rian Smith won at 125- to 135-lbs. by default. Other winners were: Steve Hollman, middle heavyweight; Chris Ecker, light heavyweight; Robin Russin, light middle; and Lawton Cooper, welterweight...
...dentist, he grew up hungering for more action and fame than his home town of Robinson, Ill., could possibly offer. So right out of high school, in 1939, a feisty welterweight by then, he signed up with the regular Army. As promised, adventure and travel were his -Honolulu, Schofield Barracks, amateur boxing, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Purple Heart, Bronze Star. But advancement seemed beyond James Jones -twice he made noncom and got busted back to private. After five boisterous years and a war, he returned to civilian life. But he packed the Army with him and marched its brawling, grumbling, whoring...
American contenders for the championship of every weight classification, and particularly to spur interest in the lighter divisions (welterweight, lightweight and featherweight), long overlooked by the U.S. public. For most of the fighters, the tournament is an opportunity to take part in a real-life version of the film Rocky. Many of these "courageous warriors," as King called them, have until now scratched out meager livings as garbage men, roofers or bar bouncers while they pursued dreams of championships. Until they performed in front of the 3,000 Navy men and women at ringside-and, more important, the network...