Word: welterweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also saved reluctant Jake for the next challenger: deadly Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson. In their meeting, probably in February, Jake would need all his luck and then some...
...Jersey City, N.J., Sugar Ray Robinson outdanced Challenger Charley Fusari in a defense of his world welterweight championship. The real winner: the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund, which got $44,785. Robinson's purse: $1. Fusari's purse...
...newspaperman Winchell was talking about was his Mirror colleague, Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer, 45, whose previous publicized licking was administered by weedy Crooner Frank Sinatra at Hollywood's Ciro's nightclub. This time Welterweight (138 Ibs.) Mortimer was beaten by an unidentified thug at 1:45 a.m. in the washroom of New Jersey's Riviera nightclub, while another thug stood by. When Mortimer came to, with two black eyes and a swollen jaw, he asked: "Who hit me?" But later, he told the Mirror that it must have been a gangland beating in retaliation for Mortimer...