Word: welterweight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they had misread the schedule, and arrived at ringside just in time to see the referee raise South Korean Ha Jong-Ho's hand in victory. An appeal was denied. Said a stunned Hembrick: "I'll have an empty spot inside for a long time." Next day U.S. welterweight Kenneth Gould, 21, arrived at the gym three hours early and won his fight. By week's end he and nine teammates remained unbeaten, with good medal prospects...
Torres recalls the very sight of Tyson at 13: "Very short, very shy and very wide." D'Amato pegged him for a champion straight off, though the resident welterweight Kevin Rooney was dubious. "He looked like a big liar to me; he looked old." Hearing that he was destined to be champ, Tyson shrugged laconically. But before long, everyone in the stable began to see him out of Cus's one good eye. "If he keeps listening," Rooney thought, "he's got a chance." The fighters' gym has a fascination of its own: the timeless loft, the faded posters...
...Tyson knocked out 18 men for a start, twelve of them within three minutes, six of those within 60 seconds. He did not jab them; he mauled them with both hands. They fell in sections. His first couple of fights were in Albany, on the undercard of the welterweight Rooney, at an incubator suitably titled "the Egg." Rooney worked Tyson's corner and then fought the main events. Knowing time was short, D'Amato thought to leave a trainer too. "We were fighters together first," says Rooney, 32, who has not warred in three years (his delicate face is practically...
...make things happen. Born in Texas, North was raised in upstate New York and was voted most courteous in his graduating high school class. He decided that the Marine Corps was his calling and eventually won a place at Annapolis. While at the academy, he became the brigade welterweight boxing champion but hungered for a sterner kind of battle. He got his wish. Sent to Viet Nam in 1968, he led a platoon and was decorated for heroic actions under fire...
...tell me that every fighter felt some nervousness just before he fought. But that's when I'm most at ease." D'Amato's surrogate, Kevin Rooney, does the training now, literally by the numbers. "Seven-six- two," he barks from ringside, ordering combinations of punches. An inactive welterweight, symbolically unretired at 30, Rooney has a fighter's mask featuring a wide and prideful nose that once made the short acquaintance of Alexis Arguello. Rooney recalls the day Tyson appeared in the gym at 13. "He looked like a big liar," the trainer says. "He looked...