Career
He was the first featherweight in history to lift more than 800 pounds, and the first to press double his body weight.
He won the U. S. featherweight championship seven times, from 1955 through 1961 and in 1964.
He was world champion in 1958 and 1961, finishing second in 1957, 1959, and 1963.
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