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	Welterweight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally the term welterweight was named for boxing, but other combat sports also began to use it for their own weight devision system like kick boxing etc.
		A welterweight boxer weighs between 140 pounds and 147 pounds (63.5 and 66.7 kg).
		Welterweight is fixed by some MMA organizations which are like shooto, PRIDE, UFC and so on.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Welterweight (351 words)

	Encyclopedia: Welterweight
		The terms "lightweight", "welterweight", "middleweight" and "heavyweight" became common during the late 19th century, but there was no universally recognized definitions of weight class.
		Throughout the 20th century, new weight classes were added, extending the range down to "strawweight" and up to "super-heavyweight" but with varying agreement over their definitions.
		The Commonwealth Welterweight title was won by defeating Mark Harris, of Ghana, in 9 rounds before a return bout with Kirkland Laing in 1981.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Welterweight (314 words)

	The Hawk's Story
		Welterweight Ranks and in 1982, Pryor and Alexis Arguello would face off in what was later named the Fight of the Decade by Ring Magazine.
		Welterweight Champ from 1980-1983 and the IBF Jr.
		Welterweight Champ from 1983-1985, Pryor firmly established his place in boxing history.
	www.hawktime.com /id2.html (378 words)

	Welterweight Boxing News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After Zab Judah's shocking loss of his welterweight titles Saturday night - ' it wasn't shocking that he lost - ' it was shocking that the judges got it right - ' the tension in the air at the Madison Square...
		When Julio Diaz of Coachella defended his IBF lightweight title in Las Vegas in May, his opponent not only showed up over the welterweight limit, he was within three pounds of the junior middleweight limit.
		Hatton clinches world light welterweight unification title SHEFFIELD : Ricky Hatton swung one of the best punches of his career to knock out Carlos Maussa in the ninth round to unify the IBF and WBA...
	www.topix.net /boxing/welterweight (797 words)

	Boxing: Vivian Harris: The Junior Welterweight Division's Best Kept Secret
		While boxing fans have been foaming at the mouth waiting to see the outcome of these two blockbuster fights, they many have been to busy to notice that there is another major player in the 140 lb division fighting in June.
		He is WBA Junior Welterweight Champion "Vicious" Vivian Harris, 25-1-1, 17 KO's, and he is dead set on becoming "The Man" in this hotly contested division.
		Vivian Harris was born in Guyana in 1978.
	ringsidereport.com /Liimatta5272005.htm (770 words)

	Columnist Bruce Keidan: Let's unify boxing's welterweight division, too
		A welterweight is what he is, he says, and what he plans to stay throughout his boxing life.
		Once you outgrew the welterweight class, the next step up was the middleweight division, with its limit of 160 pounds.
		Unable to make the welterweight limit, Robinson eased into the middleweight ranks by defeating one Robert Villemain in Philadelphia on June 5, 1950, thus becoming the first "Pennsylvania World Middleweight champion." He still was the welterweight champion, in theory at least.
	www.post-gazette.com /sports_headlines/19990314keidan5.asp (770 words)

	Boxing News : All-Time Welterweight Tournament Biographies
		Since it's inception in 1888, the welterweight division has been one of the most popular and perhaps the most talented weight classes in boxing.
		Flash knockdowns were a common occurrence in his tenure as welterweight champion, but almost always followed with a brutal Trinidad counterstroke.
		As he settled down on his punches, Whitaker was nearly as dominant at welterweight as he was at lightweight.
	www.maxboxing.com /Probst/probst0324a03.asp (2616 words)

	IBHOF History
		The matchup between Leonard, the welterweight champ and Olympic hero, and Duran, the savage lightweight king, captured the imagination of even the most casual sports fan.
		Perhaps the glory days of the welterweight division came in the early '80s when the 147-pound ranks included the likes of Leonard, Hearns, Duran, Wilfred Benitez and Pipino Cuevas.
		Whitaker was the WBC's welterweight champion while Chavez held the WBC super lightweight crown.
	www.ibhof.com /ibhfwelt.htm (1405 words)

	New York Daily News - More Sports - Salty Margarito eyeing crown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Margarito successfully defended the welterweight title four times before deciding to move up to junior middleweight to challenge Daniel Santos for the WBO title last Sept. 11.
		By the ninth round the cut was too bad for the bout to continue and Margarito, who was trailing on the scorecards at the stoppage, lost a technical decision to Santos.
		Margarito returned to the welterweight division and stopped Sebastian Lujan on a sixth round TKO after Margarito severely ripped Lujan's left ear and burst his eardrum with a punch.
	www.nydailynews.com /sports/more_sports/story/302648p-259101c.html (534 words)

	New York Daily News - Sports - Weight loss Shane's gain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This will be Mosley's second fight at welterweight after spending two years at 154 pounds.
		He lost to Wright for a second time in much the same manner that he had lost twice at welterweight to Vernon Forrest (the only other man to have beaten Mosley).
		It wasn't as impressive as his performance as a lightweight, when he scored 30 KOs in 31 bouts, but it was superb for a boxer who had made the jump from lightweight straight to welterweight.
	www.nydailynews.com /sports/story/347143p-296292c.html (514 words)

	Boxing News :: Articles : De La Hoya: Move To Welterweight Shows Business Smarts
		The welterweight division is currently wide open and Oscar knows this too well. Oscar could have moved down to 154 pounds and faced Winky Wright, instead he chose to go down two weight divisions.
		The problem with the entire welterweight division is that it never recovered from all the stars moving up to 154 and 160 pounds.
		The only name fighter to move up to the welterweight division was Zab Judah and was instantly the second biggest name at 147.
	www.boxingscene.com /?m=show&id=352 (925 words)

	Undefeated Salita wins NABA junior welterweight title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Undefeated Dmitriy Salita stopped Shawn Gallegos at 2:37 of the ninth round of a scheduled 10-round fight at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Thursday night to win the NABA junior welterweight title.
		Powell, 156 of New York, used a left-right combination to send Samaniego to the canvas for the third time in as many rounds and register his 11th knockout.
		In an eight-round junior welterweight fight, Pawlie Malignaggi, making his first start in a year after breaking seven bones in his right hand, remained unbeaten with a unanimous decision over Jeremy Yelton.
	famulus.msnbc.com /famulusspt/apmegasports08-25-203902.asp?spt=BOX (196 words)

	Hatton wins IBF light welterweight title - Boston.com - Boxing news - Sports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ricky Hatton won the IBF light welterweight title Saturday when defending champion Kostya Tszyu quit after the 11th round.
		Hatton won the fight when Tszyu failed to answer the bell at the beginning of the 12th round.
		The unbeaten Hatton, of Britain, who also holds the lightly regarded WBU title, appeared to be ahead on points when Tszyu staggered back to his corner at the end of the 11th and then signaled he couldn't carry on.
	www.boston.com /sports/other_sports/boxing/articles/2005/06/04/hatton_wins_ibf_light_welterweight_title (632 words)

	ESPN.com: BOXING - FNF's Mechanic tuning up at welterweight
		It's been a while since a young fighter with real potential has developed in front of our very eyes, but I have a new answer for those who ask about up-and-comers.
		His name is Chris "The Mechanic" Smith, and he might be the best rising welterweight contender in the world.
		Mayorga is the welterweight champion of the world.
	espn.go.com /boxing/columns/kellerman_max/1560465.html (1448 words)

	Super Welterweight Boxing News
		Super Welterweight Boxing News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		The World Boxing Council stripped Javier Castillejo of his super welterweight title on Wednesday for refusing to fight challenger Ricardo Mayorga.
		Super welterweight champion Shane Mosley is suing boxing promoter Cedric Kushner for more than $600,000 he said he's owed from a 2002 title fight.
	www.topix.net /boxing/super-welterweight (287 words)

	Barney Ross
		Barney Ross was the World Lightweight and Junior Welterweight Champion from 1933 to 1935 and World Welterweight Champion in 1934 and 1935 to 1938.
		He was the first professional boxer to hold the Lightweight and Welterweight crowns simultaneously and the first boxer to hold three World titles at the same time.
		Ross held on to the Welterweight crown until May 31, 1938, when he lost it to Henry Armstrong.
	www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/BarneyRoss.htm (404 words)

	Boxing: RSR Looks Back at WBA Welterweight Champion Jose “Pipino” Cuevas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the ‘70’s former WBA Welterweight Champion Jose Cuevas, 35-15, 31 KO’s, the margin for knocking out his opponents were just as academic as in the way he used to do it, and about as intoxicating in the measure in which he took to breaking them down.
		Born Jose Cuevas on December 27th 1957 in Santo Tomas de Los Platanos, Mexico, to a hard working Mexican father, and an Italian mother; she took no time at all to name the diminutive Baby-Faced Assassin toddler “Pipino,” before anyone would confirm to calling him Pepe.
		It just had to be the better prognosticated fight for that century because that’s exactly what happened in the second round.
	www.ringsidereport.com /Smith08172005.htm (1769 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He went on to secure his second title in November 1997 when he capitalized on the weakness of the unyielding welterweight Ray Oliveira to seize the WBC Continental Americas Welterweight Championship with a unanimous decision.
		Forrest, showing his ring savvy and boxing brilliance throughout the fight, easily dominated his opponent, was declared the winner, and the new IBF welterweight champion of the world.
		In January, he willingly vacated the IBF Welterweight title to fight and beat "Sugar" Shane Mosley for the WBC Welterweight belt.
	www.ringwork.com /Bios.aspx?BioBoxer=3 (1768 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Sport - Other Sport - Welterweight Anderson storms back to be crowned in the Kingdom
		BUCKHAVEN'S welterweight Kevin Anderson battled his way into the history books at Kirkcaldy Ice Centre last night by becoming the first Fifer to win a major pro boxing crown in the Kingdom.
		He came from behind to defeat Ghanaian Commonwealth champion Joshua Okine, winning a narrow but deserved split decision from the three English judges.
		Meanwhile ex-Sparta light welterweight Mike Reid had to toil hard for victory against tough Cambridge substitute Ben Hudson, who put up a stiff fight before losing 39-37 on points.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /othersport.cfm?id=2022842005 (410 words)

	Scotsman.com Sport - Boxing - Welterweight Mhura sorry to miss Melbourne
		LEITH Victoria's former Scottish welterweight champion Fundo Mhura tamed the relentless aggression of Glasgow University legal student Sam Kynoch in a top of the bill clash at Kirkintilloch last night.
		The classy Mhura showed little signs of ring rust despite being out for several months due to an attack of mumps and deserved the 14-12 points decision in his favour.
		However, it was the fight that he hasn't won - to get a place in Scotland's Commonwealth Games team in Melbourne in 2006 - that was uppermost in the Leith Victoria man's mind after his victory.
	sport.scotsman.com /boxing.cfm?id=2037232005 (299 words)

	Welterweight leads upstart U.S. team early - Boxing - MSNBC.com
		Light heavyweight Andre Ward and light welterweight Rock Allen also drew byes into the second round.
		Martirosyan, an 18-year-old from Glendale, Calif., was the 14th-ranked U.S. welterweight seven months ago, but rose to the division’s upper echelon in the weeks before the team trials in Tunica, Miss., last February.
		That’s when Berto and Juan McPherson, the top two American prospects, both were disqualified — Berto for misconduct after allegedly throwing McPherson to the ground during their fight, and McPherson because of his injured neck.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5714284 (911 words)

	Can Judah v. Tszyu Save the Junior Welterweight Division? by Mohammed Khan (August 9, 2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Junior Welterweight division is in for a badly needed unification bout this November 3, 2001, when IBF champion Zab "Super" Judah (27-0-1) steps in the ring with WBC/WBA Junior Welterweight champion Kostya "Thunder from Down Under" Tszyu (27-1-1).
		The Junior Welterweight class was considered the up-and-coming "hot spot" to watch not to long ago.
		The bout is scheduled to take place at the new 10,000 seat arena that is being constructed at Mohegan Sun which is set to open in the fall.
	www.boxingranks.com /Articles/Article129.htm (701 words)

	The Narragansett Times - News - 04/02/2004 - Clampitt retains IWBF, wins NABA Junior Welterweight title
		On the line were the IWBF and NABA Female World Junior Welterweight titles.
		The champion now improves to 13-2, with five KO's, and retains her World Junior Welterweight International Women's Boxing Federation belt.
		She also now wins the vacant North American Boxing Association World Junior Welterweight Women's title, with the TKO victory over Ellis.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=11222690&BRD=1714&PAG=461&dept_id=73828&rfi=6 (1199 words)

	Keep An Eye Out For Undefeated Jr. Welterweight Raymond Charles
		Welterweight Raymond Charles is currently 9-0 with 5 KO’s.
		Welterweight more interesting (as if it were not already interesting enough).
		He’s aggressive in the ring, he’s twenty-four years old, and if you saw the punches he took to the chops (and handled out as well) in his last fight against the extremely tough Carlos DeLeon, you’d also know he’s also got a strong chin to boot.
	www.eastsideboxing.com /news.php?p=1334&more=1 (3139 words)

	IOL: Mayweather ready welterweight debut
		Mayweather, the WBC champion at 63kg, will be making his welterweight (66kg) debut in the fight on Saturday at the Rose Garden.
		No title belts will be at stake, but Mayweather does have one claim to defend, that he is the best fighter in any weight division - the so-called pound-for-pound champion.
		For his welterweight debut, he's fighting an experienced left-hander whose four defeats in 60 professional bouts have come against boxers who were or later became champions.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=6&click_id=21&art_id=qw1132394947353S163 (670 words)

	Doghouse Boxing
		Fight by fight, Chavez’s legacy and undefeated record were growing and he was becoming a figure of almost mythic proportions, especially in Mexico.
		Chavez defeated Sammy Fuentes for the belt with another 11th round stoppage, and it was this title that Chavez would be most identified with.
		Moving up to challenge Pernell Whitaker in September 1993 for the WBC welterweight belt, Chavez was picked by many to break down “Sweet Pea” as he had done to so many fighters before.
	www.doghouseboxing.com /Newman/Newman052804.htm (1691 words)

	ESPN.com - BOXING - Contursi: Welterweight showdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Their welterweight championship fight is the marquee match Saturday on ESPN's first-ever Pay-Per-View boxing event (9 p.m.
		Zab Judah holds three belts, but Margarito is the best welterweight out there for me. That's why many fighters don't want to face him.
		Margarito (31-4, 22 KOs) will put his WBO welterweight title on the line for the fifth time.
	sports.espn.go.com /sports/boxing/news/story?id=2041590 (856 words)

	Simms defends super welterweight title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the undercard of the Felix Trinidad-Ricardo Mayorga middleweight fight, Simms dominated most of the rounds, although he was hardly sharp.
		He had 18 knockouts in his first 23 fights, all wins, and he took the WBA super welterweight crown last December by knocking out Alejandro Garcia in the fifth round.
		He's a former junior welterweight champion, and earlier this year lost to Cory Spinks for the undisputed welterweight title.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/10/02/sports2234EDT0809.DTL (530 words)

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