Word: welterweight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leonard, who retired last month at the age of 26 as uncontested welterweight champion of the world, toured the University as the guest of the Harvard Foundation, the administration's race-relations agency...
...February 1977 he turned pro and began beating his way through the welterweight thicket on a course Manager Angelo Dundee had carefully laid to the championship. It started with Luis ("the Bull") Vega at the Civic Center in Baltimore. Most boxers start in four-round preliminaries, but Leonard's debut was a six-round main event and a $40,000 payday. It was televised nationally...
...sign of Leonard's greatness was "just the way he raised his arms and filled the screen." He had an irresistible smile, an appealing way. He could also fight. After 25 victories, no losses and almost three years, Leonard stopped Wilfred Benitez in the 15th round for the welterweight championship of the world, or at least of the World Boxing Council. At the moment of victory, he flew to a corner of the ring and jumped onto the ropes as if into the arms of everyone...
Aaron Pryor severed Alexis Arguello's hopes of becoming the first man to hold world titles in four weight divisions last night by unleashing a savage barrage of head punches in the 14th round to knock out the 30-year-old Nicaraguan in their junior welterweight prizefight...
With a melancholy sigh, Arcel insists: "Holmes doesn't really think that way. He's a very decent guy." Mike Trainer, Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Leonard's attorney, considers the White Hope demagoguery "bad basically, but also bad business. If you are going to promote a race war, you're going to discourage a lot of people from going to the closed-circuit theaters. I wouldn't take my wife to this fight...