Word: welterweight
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...late. Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio discovered that he never had a chance in his title bout with Challenger Johnny Saxton in Chicago. Carmen ran himself ragged trying to catch his man, but ex-Champ Saxton stayed on his bicycle, avoided a knockout, and for his reward, received a unanimous decision that shocked sportswriters and spectators alike into a long Bronx cheer. "I just don't know why people feel badly because I won," said the new champion...
...defiant being-the third in a family of eleven children, whom his parents, for all their toil, could barely feed." He was a truant. He ran with store-breaking gangs. Eventually his mother had him committed to an institution for problem children. He was 14, a tall, skinny welterweight, when he first found Cus D'Amato's Gramercy Gymnasium & Health Club on Manhattan's Lower East Side. He climbed "the long, dim stairway up from 14th Street, passed the two garbage cans on the landing, walked through a scabrous hall and entered the dingy and barnlike gymnasium...
Married. Mickey ("The Toy Bulldog") Walker, 54, oldtime welterweight (1922-26) and middleweight (1926-31) world boxing champion turned artist and Manhattan restaurateur; and Martha Gallagher, 35; he for the seventh time, she for the second; in Elizabeth...
Ring-wise fight fans took it for granted that Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio would have a rough night at the Boston Garden. If Challenger Tony DeMarco stayed on his feet for 15 rounds-so the speculation went-home-town officials would give him the title. All afternoon before the bout, odds on the champ dropped accordingly. By fight time, the price was 6 to 5. Basilio's handlers filed an angry beef with the Massachusetts Boxing Commission. "What gives?" wailed Co-Manager Johnny de John. "My boy is getting a bum deal...
...onetime Colgate javelin hurler, seemingly had all the assets. He is 46, while Bailey is 69. Powell is an arrow-straight 6 ft. 4 in., and Bailey, who stoops slightly, is at least half a foot shorter. Powell is a heavyweight (190 Ibs.); Bailey could probably make the welterweight limit...