Word: welterweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Williams, world's lightweight champion, decisioned Canada's welterweight Fitzie Pruden in a ten round fight in the Chicago stadium last night...
...Cuba's Kid Gavilan, already signed to meet Chicago's Johnny Bratton for the welterweight championship, over Middleweight Gene ("Silent") Hairston, a ten-round decision; in Manhattan...
...title fight was recognized in 47 states (New York excepted) by the National Boxing Association. *The champions: Heavyweight Ezzard Charles, Light-Heavyweight Maxim, Middleweight Robinson, Welterweight Bratton, Lightweight Ike Williams, Featherweight Sandy Saddler. South Africa's Vic Toweel, a white man, holds the bantamweight title, and Hawaii's Dada Marino the flyweight...
...Johnny Bratton is fond of flashy clothes and cars, can handle a hot lick on the drums, and boxes with a fancy-Dan prance. When Sugar Ray graduated to the middleweight title by out-punching Jake LaMotta (TIME, Feb. 26), Bratton decided to apply for Sugar's vacant welterweight title. In Chicago's Stadium last week, 23-year-old Johnny put up a fight for it.* His opponent: New Jersey's Charley Fusari, 25, who has the distinction of once having stayed in the same ring with Sugar Ray Robinson for 15 rounds...
...Boxing divisions, with top weights: heavyweight, unlimited; light-heavyweight, 175 Ibs.; middleweight, 160; welterweight, 147; lightweight, 135; featherweight, 126; bantamweight, 118; flyweight...