Word: middleweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charging like an affronted rhino, Gene Fullmer, 28, roughhoused flustered Challenger Spider Webb, 28, around the ring in Logan, Utah, to win a unanimous decision, keeping the middleweight championship of the National Boxing Association (recognized by all states but New York and Massachusetts, which still hold Sugar Ray Robinson champion...
Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.) An old standby, Body and Soul. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, as technical adviser, will try to make Ben Gazzara look like the middleweight champion of the world...
...classic pug, a jug-eared middleweight with a flat, stolid face, the thick torso and bulging shoulders of a heavyweight. Even so, Utah's Gene Fullmer, 28, was no better than an 8-5 underdog for last week's National Boxing Association middleweight championship fight* in San Francisco. For Fullmer's opponent was the toughest man in the business at the bloody art of toe-to-toe brawling; in 74 fights New York State's hatchet-faced, knobby-kneed Carmen Basilio, 32, had never once been knocked out. Only Basilio seemed to have...
...sake. In the 14th, eyes glowering behind scarred, gnarled brows, Basilio took a right hand that staggered him back against the ropes. He swayed there for seconds before somehow managing to advance again. But the referee called off the slaughter, and the unmarked pug from Utah was N.B.A. middleweight champ...
...Last May the N.B.A. deprived Champion Sugar Ray Robinson of his title for refusing to fight either Fullmer or Basilio, left the aging (39) Harlem flash the middleweight champ of only the two non-N.B.A. states: Massachusetts and New York...