Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like an aging heavyweight gone to flab, U.S. industry has fallen behind some of its world-class competitors. Many steel, rubber, auto and other essential plants have become outmoded because not enough capital has been invested in them. If the nation is to restore its technological edge, U.S. industry will have to modernize by building new factories and closing inefficient plants...
...with Mark Cooley and Jim Phills crushing the competition at 190-lbs. and heavyweight once again. Cooley slapped Yates Exeley with a cross-face cradle to earn his second win of the year. The Cardinals' Steve Yermish underestimated Phills, who managed to slip out of several headlocks and toss Yermish all over the mat in winning decisively...
Only a major victory by the Crimson's dependable heavyweight Jim Phills saved the team from a loss. Phills' opponent, B.U.'s Walter Vaughn, looked too tired to put up a fight. The freshman waited patiently for Vaughn to falter and then fed him a steady diet of tie-up noves, waltzing away with an 18-6 win. "Jim fought a tough bout," co-captain Doug Mason said. "He used brains and pulled us out of the fire...
Canadian-born freshman heavyweight Jim Phills lost to former Eastern champion Jay Craddock of Columbia in the semifinals. An experienced wrestler, Craddock choked out Phills' attempts to use upper body moves by shooting single leg attacks and maintaining his distance...
Other incumbent champs were not as fortunate. Marvin Johnson wrested the WBA light-heavyweight crown from Victor Galindez on an 11th round TKO, and challenger Sugar Ray Leonard copped the welterweight crown with a TKO of defender Wilfred Benitez five seconds from the end of the fight...