Guess the champ by weight class & professional career duration

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I need to look up the 30-year junior middle to see if he ever talked about maintaining that weight that long — I gain weight just thinking about breakfast, haha.

(Yes, I saw the tiny asterisk but I’m still contemplating this. Same for the feather.)

 

I’m going to go with Henry Armstrong for the feather/light/welter as I can’t think of anyone who won all three of those titles off the top of my head. Again not going boxrec route but I expect to be wrong because I figure he fought longer than that.

No clue what the hint might be unless Henry was dying his hair at the end to hide the gray?

EDIT: Adding Ralph Dupas as the guess at junior middle (again without the benefit of any research) as it seems like he fought a long time and was pretty much in that division for the duration as best I can recall.

Feather? Gimme Willie Pep for a wild dart throw.

 

Well according to legend, Mr. Armstrong decided to become a boxer when he was driving railroad spikes (with a sledgehammer, I’d presume) for $1.50 a day and a newspaper blew by and wrapped around his leg. He grabbed it and read about a title fight in New York and decided to become a boxer.

So he was really a hammerer.

 

Could the junior middleweight perchance be Thomas Hearns?

If so, I think I’ve got the clue sorted. If not, back to square one.

 

Yori Boy Campas for LMW.

Thinking the common thread would be the last titllists/champs with 100n plus wins?

 

Jose Legra for feather?

 

Awesome!

 

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Bless you for passing along wisdom to those little cretins (whatever age) and keeping them in line!