Word: welterweight
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...took his ring name from a crack Negro welterweight of half a century ago, who, like Jersey Joe's father, was born in Barbados...
...ring's center, Sugar Ray Robinson, making his first defense of the welterweight championship, took the victor's bow, but he did no victor's dance: his opponent lay in a coma, and a doctor was examining him. Later, in his dressing room, Robinson asked: "Is the kid up yet? The punch only traveled six inches, I think." Almost as he spoke stretcher-bearers were taking Jimmy Doyle from Cleveland's Arena. A few fans recalled the words that the Cleveland Press's Columnist Franklin Lewis wrote earlier that day about how things would...
...Welterweight Boxing Championship (Tues. 10 p.m., ABC). Champion Ray Robinson v. Jimmy Doyle...
Energetic Fritzie Zivic, onetime world's welterweight champion who had once licked pneumonia, Henry Armstrong and everything else in sight, began to retire-by slow degrees. He had three kids and enough money, he kept telling himself; he was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands. He retired in Pittsburgh, retired again in California after his nose was pushed crooked again. His departure got so gradual it made the farewells of Patti, Sarah Bernhardt and Schumann-Heink look like hasty decisions...
...followed Louis' advice, relying on jab-&-retreat rather than toe-to-toe mayhem. When he finally cut loose in the eleventh, Robinson had Bell glassy-eyed and ready for a K.O.-but lacked the strength to drive home the finishing punch. After hearing himself announced as new welterweight champ, Sugar Ray stood in his corner, dog-tired and happy, but not quite the world-beater he was cracked...