Word: welterweight
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...indictment stemmed from hearings last spring by the California state athletic commission (TIME, June 15), during which L.A. Fight Promoter Jackie Leonard testified that Palermo had demanded a piece of the earnings of Welterweight Don Jordan shortly before he became champion in December. Leonard said that Palermo's demands were later backed up by Carbo himself, added that he began getting phone calls threatening bodily harm ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack"). But Manager Don Nesseth, 33, had flatly refused to knuckle under, and, according to the indictment, Leonard had handed over only...
...police searched for Carbo last month, a Los Angeles fight promoter named Jackie Leonard went before the California Athletic Commission, put the finger squarely on Mr. Grey and his managerial sidekick, a Philadelphia hoodlum named Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. Leonard had promoted most of the key fights of Welterweight Champion Don Jordan. He told a shady story. Last year, when Jordan was still only a challenger, Leonard got a phone call from Blinky Palermo. Blinky demanded that "we" be cut in for a piece of Jordan as a condition for getting a title fight with Virgil Akins. Leonard, together with Jordan...
...Neither fighter was ever in serious trouble during the dull, jab-filled fight in St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium, but Welterweight Champion Don Jordan, 24, did a workmanlike job of piling up points, staved off the bull-like rushes of former Titleholder Virgil Akins, retained his title by unanimous decision...
...listless, slow-starting pug. Last week the St. Louis Honeybear suddenly turned into a tiger. To the delight of a home-town audience, he took just 20 seconds of the first round to put New Jersey's Vince Martinez on the deck in their fight for the welterweight championship of the world. Martinez managed to get up, but it was a painful mistake. Akins dropped him eight more times in three more rounds, flattened his nose, and finally knocked him so cold that Referee Harry Kessler did not even bother to count...
...victory in this Massachusetts version of the welterweight championship which Akins had won in this same ring last October put Virgil very much in the National Boxing Assn. Welter plans...