Word: welterweight
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...nearly a decade there has been no figure in boxing as fearsome as Roberto Duran, the Panamanian primitive with the famous "hands of stone." It was not merely his daunting record: 72 victories during a 13-year career (55 by knockouts), a single loss, championships in both lightweight and welterweight divisions. It was how Duran fought: with a burning-eyed fury that was atavistic, nihilistic, merciless in his rage to win. When he defeated Sugar Ray Leonard last June to strip the Olympic hero of his welterweight crown, Duran at last won recognition as not only the fiercest but perhaps...
...more, Duran turned away. "Fight!" Meyron ordered. Duran finally shook his head: "?No más! No more! No more box." Leonard looked on in disbelief for a long moment, then vaulted across the ring and leaped up on the ropes, hands high in triumph. The World Boxing Council welterweight crown was his once again...
Neither can Bjorn Borg, who won Wimbledon yet again against pesky John McEnroe in a splendid display of tennis. Nor can Tommy Hearns, who thumped the imposing welterweight Pipino Cuevas in a recent fisticuff duel that left even the boxing intelligentsia spouting nothing but superlatives. Nor can Roberto Duran, who showed that the impregnable wall of hype built up around welterweight Sugar Ray Leonard could be rammed through in a bare ring. Nor can the Soviet Olympic Committee, which continues to insists that the Olympics were an unmitigated triumph; nor can the U.S. Olympic Committee, which maintains that the Games...
...French-speaking Montreal, as le face a face historique: the historic confrontation, a pairing mentioned in the same breath as Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn, Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Jake La-Motta. In one corner, Sugar Ray Leonard, 24, the World Boxing Council welterweight champion, a virtuoso boxer with stunningly swift hands and a made-for-television smile. In the other corner, Roberto Duran, 29, the former lightweight titlist, a Panama City ruffian with manos de piedra (hands of stone) and a menacing countenance...
...dead boxers included some of America's finest nonprofessionals. Lemuel Steeples, 23, from St. Louis, was considered by many to be the leading amateur welterweight in the U.S. "We looked for him to win a gold medal at the Olympics," said Ed Silverglade, chairman of the A.A.U. international selection committee. Andre McCoy, 20, of New Bedford, Mass., was touted among the nation's top three light heavyweights. Also killed was the team's coach, Thomas ("Sarge") Johnson, 58, who trained the U.S. boxing squad that won five gold medals at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal...