Word: welterweight
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...adage. Sharkey, a 198-lb. heavyweight, was still considered a good fighter despite sloppy performances against Risko, Christner, Stribling, Scott and World's Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling. The New York State Boxing Commission considered him good enough to call heavyweight champion of the U. S. Mickey Walker was welterweight, then middleweight champion before his manager Jack Kearns, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, got him selected as an opponent for Sharkey. Kearns wanted to bet any part of $100,000 that Walker would win; but the odds, when the fighters went into the ring, were 3 to i, with Sharkey...
...from Al Singer, has been supposed to be washed out. Grounds for this belief: Canzoneri has dodged a return match with Billy Petrolic of Fargo, N. Dak., who gave Canzoneri a good pre-championship drubbing. He was also supposed to be afraid of Jackie Berg, holder of the junior welterweight title, a Britisher noted for his courage, his windmill style, his ability to block punches with his chin. In Chicago last week, Berg and Canzoneri climbed into a ring, shook hands and started work, Canzoneri boxing nicely and Berg, short-armed and unable to land his dangerous, awkward swings, performing...
...Madison Square Garden, Dynamite Jimmy McLarnin lashed his famous right, his jolting left against the long scarred face of Billy Petrolle, called by admirers "The Fargo Express" because he came from Fargo, N. Dak. It was a set-up for McLarnin, wagerers figured-the best welterweight in the U. S. against a washed-up lightweight. One minute of the first round had passed and McLarnin was landing punches as expected when suddenly Petrolle hit him with a terrific right-hand swing, opened a gash under his left eye. Through the rest of that round, and all succeeding ones, Petrolle chased...
...Tommy Freeman, Cleveland welterweight: the world's championship of his class on the decision of a hometown referee in a 15-round bout with flashy black Jack Thompson of Oakland, Calif, who had him on the floor in the second round, made him reel in the seventh, and kept on even terms with him all through...
Holder of no title but conceded by some critics to be the best boxer in the modern prizering, Chocolate's idea was to begin a new campaign by beating Berg, a junior welterweight, then Al Singer, lightweight champion, and so work down to his own featherweight class. Looking thoughtful and serious, he jabbed Berg with sewing-machine lefts and crossed him with hard right-hand punches to the jaw. The cockney came in milling and tied him up, battered at his ribs in the clinches without getting past his countering elbows. Whenever Chocolate was free to box he scored...