Word: welterweight
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...Joey Giardello: a unanimous 15-round decision over Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 27, in a middleweight championship fight at Philadelphia's Convention Hall. Carter's looks (shaved head, drooping Fu Manchu moustache) and ring credentials (a one-round knockout of Welterweight King Emile Griffith) were impressive enough to make him the betting favorite at 11-10. But they hardly awed Champion Giardello, 34, who was fighting his 127th professional bout. Counterpunching craftily, scoring heavily with short, chopping hooks, Giardello won a lopsided victory, to the delight of 6,000 home-town fans...
Rarely have two fighters been so evenly matched. Twice before, they had traded the welterweight title on controversial decisions, one of them split; and in 40 rounds neither had been able to knock the other down. But they insisted that things were going to be different this time. "I am the matador," boasted Challenger Rodriguez, 26, "and I will kill the black bull." That brought accusations of race-raking, to which Rodriguez retorted: "I should call him maybe the blue bull?" Champion Griffith, 25, shrugged it off: "I'll knock him out in five...
...held at The Spa. Last week everybody celebrated-inlanders and outlanders alike. Bearded men and crinolined ladies bounced through the streets in horse-drawn carriages; diamonds glistened like dewdrops of Saratoga Vichy at black-tie parties. Sousaphones harrumphed, fireworks whiz-banged, and chicken sizzled to a crunchy golden brown. Welterweight Champion Emile Griffith was signed for a nontitle fight; Arnold Palmer and Gary Player were booked for an exhibition golf match. All in all, just the sort of shindig that would have delighted John Morrissey-the man who started the whole bawdy binge a century...
...Doar tried pleading, urging, arguing, demanding and waving court orders-all in vain.* Now McShane tried using his muscles. Several times he pushed a meaty shoulder against highway patrolmen, trying to force his way past. Ruddy-faced Marshal McShane, 53, is a formidable man. He won the Golden Gloves welterweight championship of New York City back in 1930, and he has since added many pounds of solid flesh. He is also a brave man who won several citations for heroism during his years as a New York cop. But he was outnumbered 20 to 1 by the troopers, some...
...helped out. "In the morning, Willie Reddish asks who's got The Bear today," sighed "Slim" Jim Robinson, who has had difficulty lasting one round, "and I say, 'Don't tell me until after I've eaten. I want to enjoy my breakfast.' " Onetime Welterweight Champion Barney Ross watched Liston deck another sparring partner five times, wryly suggested that Trainer Reddish import zombies from darkest Africa. "Where else are you going to find training partners? He's the kind that knocks you on the chin and breaks your ankle. He'll knock...