| Henry Armstrong held world titles at featherweight, lightweight and welterweight simultaneously and won 150 fights. |
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| He wanders into a local gym, sees world welterweight champion Yuri in the ring, and offers to spar with him. |
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| I'll clean up everything at light welter then I'll move up to welterweight and clean up there as well. |
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| In the decade of the 40's, Burley was ranked in the top 10 in both the welterweight and middleweight and yet there was no title shot. |
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| Hearns put many outstanding fighters to sleep for the count of 10 with one right hand from welterweight up to super middleweight. |
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| For four years there were no title fights for the welterweight, middleweight, light heavyweight or heavyweight crowns. |
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| He went on to win the light welter weight title the following year and five more at welterweight. |
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| During World War II, he competed as a welterweight for the Air Force, boxing in Australia and New Guinea. |
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| Huntington welterweight Glenn Banks is set to grace the international stage when he flies to Copenhagen at the end of the month. |
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| Castellani was a top class fighter who met the best the welterweight and middleweight divisions could offer. |
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| Young had come into the ring weighing much more than his usual light-welterweight limit of ten stone, as Jones is a full welterweight, and more. |
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| Edinburgh-based light welterweight Young was too fast and powerful for Thorpe and the second of two solid right-handers sent him to the canvas. |
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| I thought great, I can finally see how great Sugar Ray Robinson was as a welterweight, or how great Benny Leonard was. |
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| It's not a smart move to gratuitously antagonise a welterweight boxing champ. |
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| He was a welterweight then, and is now only a light-middleweight, so that shows how well he has managed his weight. |
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| Although Gavilan was a brilliant welterweight, he found the extra strength of the Hawaiian too tough a hurdle. |
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| In his next fight, Taylor dropped back down to welterweight, where he was matched against a giant welterweight in Crisanto Espana. |
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| Well-balanced, he's also built like a welterweight and not easily pushed around. |
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| He was a legitimate welterweight who knocked out light heavyweights during his career. |
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| He began boxing when he was 11 years old and later turned professional, fighting for 17 years as a welterweight. |
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| I think Sanchez may have hit the wall at lightweight like Arguello did at junior welterweight. |
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| And he was doing that at middleweight, 13 lb heavier than his natural welterweight. |
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| Hearns is an all-time great anywhere from welterweight thru middleweight! |
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| We try to find another way into the city. After poking and feinting around the margins like a welterweight, we make our move. |
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| It happened, for instance, when Benny Paret, a Cuban welterweight, died in 1962 after being battered in a televised title fight in New York. |
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| By the age of 23, he was Yondan in Judo, Nidan in Kempo, Shodan in Aikido and a highly regarded welterweight boxer. |
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| McGirt, 38, who held world titles in the junior welter and welterweight divisions, was an infinitely clever boxer with a truly impressive work ethic. |
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| He speaks of taking on all the top junior welters, and he has also toyed with the idea of going up seven pounds to take on welterweight champion Cory Spinks. |
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| A very knowledgeable student fills her in with the exact difference between the different weights in boxing including welterweight, which she hadn't asked for. |
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| That's seven pounds north of their last clash at welterweight, and oddsmakers figure the taller De La Hoya fills out better, and will be the bigger man. |
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| They may have fought six times, but the only competitive bout was the first, when Robinson was still a welterweight and La Motta was a fully-fledged middleweight. |
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| I was also happy for Bouie Fischer, a man who had been in the fight game since Sugar Ray Robinson was a welterweight, and who was finally getting his due. |
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| Buzz Bissinger writes a four-page sentence that ruins a requiem for welterweight Barney Ross. |
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| Hey, and don't forget there's the welterweight fight between Murdoch's New York Post and Mort Zuckerman's Daily News. |
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| As of October 2016, The Ring magazine ranks him as the world's third best welterweight. |
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| Boxer Julius Indongo is the unified WBA, IBF, and IBO world champion in the Light welterweight division. |
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| Winstone turned professional in 1959 and was managed by former European welterweight champion, Eddie Thomas. |
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| Khan represents Britain in boxing and is the former WBA world light welterweight champion. |
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| This was for the vacant WBA International welterweight title and WBA title eliminator as well as Vacant WBC Silver title. |
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| English welterweight Ross Minter outpointed Romford's Duncan Cottier 59-55 in a six-rounder despite a gash over his right eye. |
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| Some may call that a pipedream but following this win and Mayweather's victory over Manny Pacquiao earlier in the month, the two men are the only world welterweight champion s around. |
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| Margarito, the WBO welterweight titleholder, will make the first defense of his belt against Danny Perez tonight at the Pond on Showtime. |
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| Now the former champion looks to regain the welterweight crown in his home province and prove to his fans and his country that he is the best 170 pound fighter in the world. |
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| A ring was installed in the Nave for a champion boxer, none other than Marcel Cerdan who won a European welterweight championship bout there against Fernand Viez. |
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| The fight was for the WBA light welterweight title, which Khan won in the 11th round. |
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| The Bray southpaw came from behind to edge out German welterweight Patrick Wojcicki on a countback after a 14-14 tie in the 69kg final in Trabzon, Turkey. |
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| Making his welterweight debut in 2006, Hatton won a tough fight against WBA champion Luis Collazo to win a world title in his second weight class. |
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| It was the 21st knockout in 25 fights for De La Hoya, but he had gone the distance in his two previous fights and was looking to regain his knockout punch as a welterweight. |
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| The fight was at light welterweight, which was the sixth weight category Pacquiao has fought at and is the weight at which Hatton was previously undefeated. |
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| Paisley welterweight Kevin McIntyre also came back strongly from the only defeat of his previous outing to outpoint Welsh slugger Michael Smyth over six rounds. |
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