Word: welterweight
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...February 1977 he turned pro and began beating his way through the welterweight thicket on a course Manager Angelo Dundee had carefully laid to the championship. It started with Luis ("the Bull") Vega at the Civic Center in Baltimore. Most boxers start in four-round preliminaries, but Leonard's debut was a six-round main event and a $40,000 payday. It was televised nationally...
Aaron Pryor severed Alexis Arguello's hopes of becoming the first man to hold world titles in four weight divisions last night by unleashing a savage barrage of head punches in the 14th round to knock out the 30-year-old Nicaraguan in their junior welterweight prizefight...
With a melancholy sigh, Arcel insists: "Holmes doesn't really think that way. He's a very decent guy." Mike Trainer, Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Leonard's attorney, considers the White Hope demagoguery "bad basically, but also bad business. If you are going to promote a race war, you're going to discourage a lot of people from going to the closed-circuit theaters. I wouldn't take my wife to this fight...
...Leonard's lawyer and friend. "His left eye was in jeopardy-that has been our concern." The injury may have been suffered in the Tommy Hearns fight last September, though Leonard did not begin to see a "spot" until ten days before the surgery, while sparring for a welterweight-championship defense. Earnie Shavers and Maurice Hope are among the boxers who returned to the ring after retinal surgery. Surgeon Ronald G. Michels, who operated on Shavers as well, describes Leonard's tear as "much less severe." Leonard is financially secure, but only 26 and in his prime...
Sugar Ray Leonard battered Bruce Finch to the canvas three times and stopped him in the third round last night to retain the undisputed welterweight boxing championship of the world...