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World Featherweight Champion Abe Attell won a 10-round decision victory over rising star Johnny Kilbane at the Hippodrome in Kansas City #OnThisDay in 1910. A crowd of around 3,000 witnessed the clash between the famed "Little Hebrew" and the man who would later dethrone him.
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World Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard, aka "The Ghetto Wizard", KO'd "Toughy" Ramser in Round 7 of a scheduled 10 in a non-title scrap in Cleveland, Ohio, #OnThisDay in 1917. The bout was Leonard's fourth in just six days and followed wins over Jack Britton, Eddie Wagond and Young George Erne.
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World Middleweight Champion Al McCoy (Alexander Rudolph) was born in Rosenhayn, New Jersey, #OnThisDay in 1894.
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Five Jewish boxers to take part on December card in Moldova
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Five Jewish boxers to take part on December card in Moldova
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Irregardless, for all intensive purposes, people should of known these. But some people could care less about speaking English good.
Yonatan Landman back in action next week against a soft touch
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Future triple-weight king Barney Ross demolished Sammy Binder #OnThisDay in 1930, stopping him in Round 2 of a scheduled 6 at Chicago Stadium. The Chicago Tribune reported that the referee jumped in to halt the clash after Ross "crashed" through his opponent's defences and "had him helpless and reeling unprotected in the centre of the ring".
Georges Carpentier won the world light heavyweight crown #OnThisDay in 1920 with a Round 4 KO of Battling Levinsky at the Jersey City International League Baseball Park. A reported crowd of around 35,000 saw Carpentier drop Levinsky twice in the second round before ultimately finishing him off in the fourth stanza of a scheduled 12. The pair are pictured with referee Harry Ertle before the fight (Carpentier is on the left).
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Former World Welterweight Champion Ted "Kid" Lewis won a six-round newspaper decision over Marcel Thomas in Jersey City #OnThisDay in 1920. Lewis floored Thomas twice on his way to victory at the International League Baseball Park in a clash that was part of the undercard for the light heavyweight world title fight between Georges Carpentier and Battling Levinsky. Thomas was one of Carpentier's sparring partners.
Wright was the A-side when he signed a promotional deal in France, and that was 30 years ago. It’s not relevant to today’s landscape. If Feldman chooses to be the B-side, that’s a career-long choice to be “the opponent,” a status from which few fighters can ascend.
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World Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard stopped Johnny Sheppard in Round 3 of a scheduled 12 at the 6th Regiment Armory in Paterson, New Jersey, #OnThisDay in 1920. The Paterson Evening News reported that Leonard gave a "marvelous" exhibition of boxing before dishing out a beatdown in the third stanza which left Sheppard "staggering" and "fleeing from his oppressor as a mouse seeks to avoid its pursuer". The referee stepped in to halt the clash and save the "all but out" and "doomed" Sheppard from being KO'd.
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Former World Light Heavyweight Champion Battling Levinsky was arrested and charged with cheque fraud #OnThisDay in 1933. Levinsky was taken into custody by detectives in Philadelphia after cashing bogus cheques bearing the forged signatures of prominent local citizens. He insisted he was "absolutely innocent" and said he had been given the cheques, which he believed to be genuine, by patrons of his gymnasium as payment for health courses they were taking. Levinsky appeared in court before being bailed to await a future hearing. The allegations against him would later be dropped after local banks reportedly indicated that they didn't want him to be prosecuted.
Leonard was 25. He was also an Olympic gold medalist and the the face of boxing. And that was 45 years ago. Boxing has changed. There are fewer shows now. If you don’t have a big promoter behind you and want to be the A side, it’s going to be very expensive to fight that often.
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A legend returns...
Former World Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard left retirement and stepped into the ring for the first time in seven years #OnThisDay in 1931. "The Ghetto Wizard" made short work of Pal Silvers, flattening his opponent in Round 2 of a scheduled 10 and securing a TKO win in front of around 16,000 fans at Queensboro Stadium in Long Island City, New York. The crowd were unimpressed - the victory was greeted by booing amid suspicions Silvers may have taken a dive.
Two-time Chicago Golden Gloves champion Esther "The Terror" Dudovitz to make her pro debut next month
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Great insight from undefeated junior middleweight prospect Joshua Feldman on his last fight
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