Highlights of the underrated and hard punching former Welterweight world champion. The Honey Bear!

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Virgil Akins - Was an American boxer who won the Welterweight Championship of the World in 1958. Nicknamed ‘Honeybear', Akins was the first World Champion boxer from St. Louis. Akins was considered lanky, but proved nevertheless to be a powerful hitter with either hand and quickly developed a reputation as a dangerous puncher. An elimination tournament for the Welterweight title was created when Carmen Basilio vacated his crown to move up to Middleweight, six of the World's top-rated Welterweights was swiftly established in an effort to find Basilio's successor. Akins emerged the victor and new World Champion on June 6, 1958, by pounding favorite Vince Martinez to a fourth round destruction. All told, Martinez went down nine times, having never seriously recovered from a shattering right delivered early in the First.

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