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...Syracuse, N.Y., Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan came a cropper in a nontitle bout against an in & outer named Danny ("Bang Bang") Womber. It was Gavilan's first defeat since...
...Pittsburgh. In San Francisco a man shut off his TV set because "my wife and kids were crying and I couldn't stand it any longer." A Virginian wired the Boston police that Referee Rawson should be "charged with attempted homicide." In Los Angeles, ex-Welterweight Champion Barney Ross swore that he had never seen "such a brutal affair in a ring in all my life." Robert Christenberry, chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, cried: "Everything we've done to make it a clean, competitive sport they've thrown to the wind. Where were...
Davey, fresh-faced, sandy-haired, and the scholarly looking victim of a retreating hairline, won six straight TV fights last year and became the idol of the fans. Gavilan, who bears the ugly scars of his profession-cauliflower ears, flattened nose, scarred eye tissue-was merely the welterweight champion of the world. Last week in Chicago, for the biggest gate in welterweight history ($275,415), the TV idol met the old pro. The result was as predictable as the 14-5 odds favoring Gavilan...
...victory pose, then rushed to the ringside TV mike to tell an estimated 30 million viewers what had happened to their fallen idol. Said Gavilan: "He's a good fighter, but he no punch hard. He needs more experience. He's, well, you know ..." The welterweight champion left the thought unfinished. His next objective: the middleweight (160 lbs.) title. After all, says Gavilan: "I beat all the beeg welterweights, didn't I? Who else I gonna fight? Who gotta chance with the Keed...
...coming amateur boxer (85 straight victories), Sugar Ray Robinson firmly resolved: "They'll never hold a benefit for me." He pursued the dollar with the same single-mindedness that brought him two world championships-the welterweight (147 Ibs.) and middleweight (160 Ibs.) titles-and carried him through 137 professional fights with only three defeats. By last week, worth an estimated $300,000 from shrewd investments (real estate, a bar, a dry-cleaning establishment), he knew that the time had come to quit. Said Sugar Ray, in a flowery farewell to the ring: "I do not feel...