Word: welterweight
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...Welterweight champion Carl Bobo Oison, in his first outing since he won the title in a final elimination bout with Britain's Randy Turpin, scored a fifth round knockout Saturday night over tough Joe Rindone of Roxbury, Mass...
...York City, Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan, who has his eye also on the middleweight title, won the Edward J. Neil plaque as Fighter of the Year...
...Chicago, Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan successfully defended his 147-lb. title by trouncing Chicago's Johnny Bratton in a lopsided 15-rounder. Gavilan's next objective: the middleweight (160 Ibs.) championship, now held by Hawaii's Carl ("Bobo") Olson...
Carmen Basilio is a swaggering young (26) ex-marine with the biceps of a riveter and the combative instincts of a Brahma bull. As a prizefighter, he has won 36 out of 51 professional fights, and out of this indifferent record has won the title of New York State welterweight (147 Ibs.) champion. Boxers respect his clumsy punch, but Basilio cuts easily, and when he earned a shot at the world championship, the experts thought him easy meat for a slashing hitter like Cuba's Champion Kid Gavilan. Last week, fighting in his home town of Syracuse, Underdog Basilio...
Vince Martinez, boxing rookie of the year in 1952, faces young Danny Giovanelli in a ten-round welterweight bout at Madison Square Garden tonight . . . Bobby Schantz, diminutive Philadelphia Athletics mound star, strained an arm muscle yesterday in the fourth inning of the A's-Red Sox game at Fenway Park. It is not known how long he will be out of action...