Word: middleweights
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...this slight distance runner chose to make his name at Annapolis was brutally elemental: boxing. Though he lacked the natural tools to excel, he worked harder than anyone else. In his third year, North fought his way into the academy's middleweight championship. At 147 lbs., he was scheduled to meet James Webb, now Secretary of the Navy. Webb was the favorite, a polished puncher; North the underdog, all blood and guts. In front of 1,500 screaming midshipmen, North won the three-round fight in a close decision. "Ollie was a Friday-night fighter," recalls his coach, Emerson Smith...
Hagler hit him less but hurt him more. Leonard had weighed in that morning at 158, just half a pound lighter than the natural middleweight he was fighting, and after a day's sustenance had entered the ring at 163. But he would leave it weighing 150. The bulk he had added, more to withstand power than dispense it, melted as he went until Leonard was himself again -- tough and quick fisted, bright and quick witted but as small as a child. Sometimes he feigned exhaustion, keeping a right-hand lead at the ready, and other times he truly sagged...
Flying home, Leonard turned to his parents in a quiet moment and said, "Dad, do you know I'm the middleweight champion of the world?" It may be the least of what...
Sugar Ray Leonard returned to the ring in spectacular fashion after a three-year layoff and upset Marvelous Marvin Hagler last night to become middleweight champion...
...tried to talk about my visions of the office of auditor," said DeNucci, a state representative from Newton and a former middleweight boxer. "It's been disappointing that my Republican opponent has done nothing but distort my voting record and attack me personally...