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  • Boxing Day is a secular holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day. It originated in the United Kingdom and is celebrated in a number of ...
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  • Arnold Raymond Cream (January 31, 1914 - February 25, 1994), better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion. He ...
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  • James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-28 who defeated Jack Dempsey ...
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  • Boxing Day is a secular holiday celebrated the day after Christmas Day. It originated in the United Kingdom and is celebrated in a number of ...
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  • Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American heavyweight boxing champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man then ...
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  • Monzón retired from boxing as a champion at the top of his game. ... on November 7, 1970, Monzon shocked the boxing world. Monzón applied pressure ...
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  • John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918) is widely recognized as boxing's first modern world heavyweight champion ...
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  • performer whose ring antics entertained boxing audiences during the Great ... successful nightclub act. He also refereed boxing and wrestling matches. Baer ...
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  • a count of ten. Liston was known by the boxing community as one of the most ... older than originally thought during his boxing career. Many believe he was ...
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  • whose two fights with Joe Louis transcended boxing and became worldwide political events because of their racial and international importance. ...
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  • and is the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to never record a ... Marciano didn't take up the sport of boxing until after 1943, when he ...
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  • fight with Georges Carpentier generated boxing's first million-dollar ... than he handled lighter, quicker ones. Boxing experts Charley Rose, Nat ...
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  • by knock out or TKO. As a holder of many boxing records, Robinson was the ... himself the greatest heavyweight in boxing history, that he would rank ...
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  • Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 13, 1981), better known in the boxing world as Joe Louis, and nicknamed the Brown Bomber, is regarded ...
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  • fighting strategy shifts away from power boxing to more evasive "circling ... fighting strategy shifts away from power boxing to more evasive "circling ...
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  • Zhāng Kǒngzhāo, Boxing Classic: Essential Boxing Methods 拳經拳法備要 ... the Shaolin Monastery as the place Chinese boxing originated. ...
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  • renowned the world over both for his boxing and his political activism ... reported the fact to a local policeman and boxing trainer, Joe Martin. Martin ...
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  • Nursing a broken nose, King decided to quit boxing and focus on his comedy career. King began working as a doorman at the popular nightclub Leon and ...
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  • actively endorsed rising sports such as boxing and horse racing and was ... University. He was also an amateur boxing champion in his youth, which ...
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  • and weighing over 250 pounds, he took up boxing. He showed considerable talent ... At the boxing gym, Dixon was met by fellow singer Leonard "Baby ...
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  • *Smith, Robert W. Chinese Boxing: Masters and Methods. Tokyo: Kodansha ... Bagua quan xue = A Study of Eight Trigrams Boxing. Pinole, CA: Smiling Tiger ...
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