Word: welterweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boxing results sealed the U.S. team title. The U.S.'s Flyweight Nate Brooks, Light-Welterweight Charles Adkins, Middleweight Floyd Patterson, Light-Heavyweight Norvel Lee and Heavyweight Edward Sanders copped five gold medals (worth 50 points) in the ten final matches (Russian boxers got two silver medals...
Middlewight (160 Ibs.) Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, the greatest fighter, pound for pound, of his lackluster day, set his sights high. In challenging Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim, one-time Welterweight (147 Ibs.) Champion Robinson was aiming to become the third man in ring history ever to hold three titles.*For ten rounds, sweltering under the ring lights at Yankee Stadium one night last week, Robinson was right on target, bombing bumbling Maxim with a brilliant series of rights & lefts, throwing his punches in bunches and dancing skillfully out of harm...
...others: Hammering Henry Armstrong, who held the featherweight, lightweight and welterweight titles all in one year (1938) and Bob Fitzsimmons, who won the middleweight title in 1891, the heavyweight in 1897 and light-heavyweight...
...aging (35) Dado Marino for the flyweight (112 Ibs.) title. Like Lightweight Salas, Shirai is the first fighter from his country ever to hold a world championship. The U.S., once the stronghold of boxing, now owns only half of the eight world titles. Others outside the U.S.: the welterweight (147 Ibs.) championship held by Cuba's Kid Gavilan, and the bantamweight (118 Ibs.) held by South Africa's Vic Toweel...
...Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan of Cuba and Harlem, a split decision over Texas' Bobby Dykes, in Florida's first "mixed" fight; at Miami...