Word: welterweight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president Joy J. Liu '99, who won the Golden Gloves title last year in the junior welterweight division, praised Rettig's boxing skills...
Light-heavyweight boxer Antonio Tarver of Orlando, Florida, took another step toward an anticipated Olympic medal when he outpointed Anthony Stewart of Chicago, 17 to 0, in the U.S. Olympic Box-Offs last week, earning a trip to Atlanta. Other newly named Olympic pugilists include lightweight Terrance Cauthen, welterweight Fernando Vargas and light-middleweight David Reid, all of whom should be medal contenders in their weight classes at the Games...
...like so many of the greats, he could not get used to the relative obscurity that goes along with the title of "former" welterweight champion of the world. So he returned to the ring, each time losing respect as well as the fluid motion and lightning quickness that made him as sweet as sugar. Terry Norris, the man who brought about Leonard's last retirement, showed that the sugar sweet jabs of the former Olympic golden boy had slowed to the speed of molasses in December...
Until last summer, House, a former Marine Corps and All-Service welterweight boxing champion, was one of two instructors in Navajo language and culture at the Navajo Academy in Farmington, N. Mex. This fall there are three, but House is no longer among them. The academy draws its students from the vast, mostly desolate Navajo reservation next to this charm-free oil-and-gas town. The school has a Navajo headmaster and an all-Navajo board of trustees. It is the only Native American college-preparatory boarding school...