Word: welterweights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twelve thousand fight fans sat dumfounded. Kinky-haired Henry Armstrong, world's welterweight champion, was down in the centre of the ring. Echoing from the rafters of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden wailed the voice of Announcer Harry Balogh: "Winnah and New Champeen - Fritzie...
...years ago Henry Armstrong held the world's featherweight, lightweight and welterweight titles-a record unmatched by any other fighter, white or black. He renounced his featherweight crown, lost his lightweight crown to Lou Ambers. But he had kept his welterweight title against all comers-19 of them...
...millions of U. S. radios, one night last week, fight fans fidgeted. Scheduled for 9:45 was the Manhattan set-to between Welterweight Champion Henry Armstrong, Negro buzz saw, and Light weight Champion Lew Jenkins, self-styled "kind of crazy-punching guy." A nontitle fight, it had nevertheless been ballyhooed as the most exciting little-men's match since the days of Lew Tendler and Benny Leonard...
...come out of the sticks two months ago to blast the lightweight crown off Lou Ambers' head- suddenly lost his sting. From then on, it was Armstrong's show. Putting on the famed hammering act that once won three world's titles (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight) within eleven months, he plopped Jenkins to the floor once in the fourth round, twice in the fifth, three times in the sixth. Just before the bell rang for the beginning of the seventh round, the "best lightweight since Benny Leonard" collapsed, toppled off his stool...
...Jenkins' picture on the town's official stationery, and the new champion was fixing to buy a ranch with the $10,000 he had earned in seven minutes. "Bring on Henry Armstrong next," drawled the Sweetwater Swatter, itching to get his anvil-strong hands on the welterweight (147 Ib.) champion. "In 30 rounds, Armstrong couldn't knock out the boy ah knocked out in three, so ah ought to do all right with Henry," he added...