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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 ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
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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 ...9 KB (1,442 words) - 02:33, 1 August 2022
- James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-28 who defeated Jack Dempsey ...12 KB (1,913 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- 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 ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 20:04, 20 November 2023
- Floyd Patterson (January 4, 1935 – May 11, 2006) was an American heavyweight boxing champion. At 21, Patterson became the youngest man then ...10 KB (1,626 words) - 17:44, 28 March 2024
- 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 ...10 KB (1,638 words) - 15:24, 27 November 2023
- John Lawrence Sullivan (October 15, 1858 – February 2, 1918) is widely recognized as boxing's first modern world heavyweight champion ...13 KB (1,938 words) - 06:07, 3 August 2022
- performer whose ring antics entertained boxing audiences during the Great ... successful nightclub act. He also refereed boxing and wrestling matches. Baer ...12 KB (1,914 words) - 00:53, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,380 words) - 01:16, 4 February 2023
- whose two fights with Joe Louis transcended boxing and became worldwide political events because of their racial and international importance. ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 00:59, 9 November 2022
- 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 ...19 KB (3,097 words) - 21:32, 16 April 2023
- fight with Georges Carpentier generated boxing's first million-dollar ... than he handled lighter, quicker ones. Boxing experts Charley Rose, Nat ...17 KB (2,668 words) - 08:39, 13 March 2024
- 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 ...21 KB (3,404 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- 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 ...15 KB (2,326 words) - 06:38, 5 April 2024
- fighting strategy shifts away from power boxing to more evasive "circling ... fighting strategy shifts away from power boxing to more evasive "circling ...22 KB (3,362 words) - 07:42, 6 March 2023
- Zhāng Kǒngzhāo, Boxing Classic: Essential Boxing Methods 拳經拳法備要 ... the Shaolin Monastery as the place Chinese boxing originated. ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- 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 ...21 KB (3,355 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- actively endorsed rising sports such as boxing and horse racing and was ... University. He was also an amateur boxing champion in his youth, which ...18 KB (2,818 words) - 10:50, 16 August 2023
- 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 ...19 KB (2,749 words) - 15:21, 14 May 2023
- *Smith, Robert W. Chinese Boxing: Masters and Methods. Tokyo: Kodansha ... Bagua quan xue = A Study of Eight Trigrams Boxing. Pinole, CA: Smiling Tiger ...25 KB (3,699 words) - 06:17, 10 January 2023
- The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the pseudofruit. Within the true fruit is a single ...9 KB (1,485 words) - 10:12, 11 March 2023
- On December 26, 2004, the massive Boxing Day Tsunami, caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake that occurred a thousand miles away off the ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- in Kowloon, where he represented their boxing team in inter-school events. ... of Wing Chun, with elements of Western boxing and fencing. Lee taught friends ...24 KB (3,867 words) - 16:58, 29 April 2020
- in track and field events, and was the heavy-weight boxing champion at Cornell in 1893. After graduating from Cornell, he had a brief legal career in ...11 KB (1,567 words) - 09:23, 24 November 2022
- several different sports, including boxing, fencing, horse-riding, rugby, and rowing. He believed that sport was essential for the development ...10 KB (1,541 words) - 05:26, 24 November 2022
- The sports of wrestling, throwing, boxing, and racing were all wrote ... While Boxing was still not accepted as a sport because of its danger ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
- of Tai Chi. Developed by Chinese Olympic boxing coach Bai Rong, taiji bailong ball is known as Rythmball in North America. Rhythmball, [http://www ...11 KB (1,677 words) - 05:38, 27 February 2023
- hostess for the Mayor of New York. She attended boxing matches, baseball games and other public events, dressed in what became her signature garb: a ...11 KB (1,653 words) - 04:13, 6 November 2022
- *Boxing (Discontinued) *Men's Cross Country *Women's Cross Country *Fencing *Field Hockey *Football The NCAA does not sponsor a championship ...28 KB (3,819 words) - 04:10, 11 March 2023
- boxer. Eventually he won the Amateur Lightweight Boxing Championship of California, winning 22 of 25 bouts. His trademark broken nose resulted from ...23 KB (3,526 words) - 06:02, 3 August 2022
- sport in which no professionals compete is boxing; and in men's football ... elimination tournament (most notably boxing), a third place might not ...28 KB (4,253 words) - 00:34, 18 November 2022
- Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American, entertainment writer and television host, best known as the ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 18:04, 12 February 2024
- coaches thought he was too little. So he turned to boxing and wrestling, consistently beating boys bigger than him. He never lost a match. A girl at ...12 KB (1,830 words) - 16:08, 31 October 2023
- in sales and chaired Cleveland's boxing commission. He was inducted ... April 8, 2024. He chaired Cleveland's boxing commission between 1936 and ...49 KB (6,990 words) - 18:09, 25 April 2024
- challenged the writer to a duel and then a boxing match. Neither challenge ... After Valentino challenged the Tribunes anonymous writer to a boxing ...32 KB (5,062 words) - 15:27, 13 April 2023
- General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, USAF (December 14, 1896 – September 27, 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- preclude other activities, such as fencing and boxing (Fiske 1919, 15). After his graduation in 1873, and two years at sea, he returned to the Academy ...14 KB (2,088 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2022
- royal" with other blacks in a boxing ring. After brutally winning the battle royal, injured and bleeding, the narrator is finally given ...13 KB (2,109 words) - 00:29, 8 December 2022
- Upon leaving school, Dino began boxing, claiming to be an "amateur ... opportunities for him in gambling than in boxing. So, he began working in ...24 KB (3,934 words) - 08:56, 28 January 2024
- James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 22:37, 22 June 2022
- In high school, Nagurski took up wrestling and boxing. In 1926 Nagurski entered the University of Minnesota. From 1927 through 1929, he starred ...14 KB (1,992 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- helping arrange for the broadcast of a heavyweight boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier in July 1921. Up to 300,000 people heard ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 08:08, 28 January 2024
- American to win the heavyweight championship in boxing.]] ... contributions to the nation's sports. Boxing was the first sport to accept ...38 KB (5,325 words) - 06:03, 16 June 2023
- Category:Media Professionals Category:Image wanted Annenberg, Walter Walter Hubert Annenberg (March 13, 1908 – October 1, 2002) was an American ...16 KB (2,264 words) - 22:11, 3 May 2023
- all 32 points on a compass rose is called "boxing the compass." 1 point = 1/8 of a right angle = 11.25° = 12.5 gon. *The astronomical ...20 KB (3,182 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- To deal with bullies Roosevelt started boxing lessons. Two trips abroad ... Club; and runner-up in the Harvard boxing championship, losing to C ...46 KB (7,173 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- Ray Charles, born Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), was a pioneering American pianist, musician and entertainer who ...14 KB (2,284 words) - 01:32, 8 December 2022
- Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (July 5, 1889 – October 11, 1963) was a multi-talented French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- * The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America. New York: Nation Books, 2006 ...16 KB (2,360 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- grabs on to the back of a female with a "boxing glove" like structure on his front claws, often holding on for months at a time. After the ...18 KB (2,614 words) - 18:15, 7 February 2024
- concert clashed with a televised heavyweight boxing match between Rocky Marciano and Jersey Joe Walcott and as a result was poorly attended. Thankfully ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- American boxer Jack Johnson. Himself a devotee of boxing, Davis drew parallels between Johnson, whose career had been defined by the fruitless search ...36 KB (5,661 words) - 15:45, 20 September 2023
- chi gong, meditation and forms of boxing. === Prohibition of Shaolin kung fu === The Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911) prohibited all combat arts ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 21:14, 16 June 2023
- Juan Domingo Perón (October 8, 1895 – July 1, 1974) was an Argentine soldier and politician, elected three times as president of Argentina ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 20:34, 4 October 2022
- scene, along with baseball's Babe Ruth, boxing's Jack Dempsey, American football's Red Grange, and tennis player Bill Tilden. He was ...19 KB (3,121 words) - 05:16, 17 November 2023
- and bets were paid, a Yale alum threw a boxing glove at a Harvard supporter. The other person grabbed a stick and swung at it. Hancock called ...50 KB (8,173 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- sport, followed by track and field, boxing, and table tennis. Yoruba athletic events take place in either the National Stadium, Lagos (55,000 ...21 KB (3,192 words) - 21:30, 4 June 2023
- *Many boxing matches have been held at Yankee Stadium, notably Joe Louis's first-round knockout of Max Schmeling on June 22, 1938. Heavyweight ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 10:12, 22 May 2023
- fist," or "great extremes boxing" (note that 'chi' in this instance is an earlier romanization of modern 'ji,& ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- Monday; Whit Monday; First Monday in August; Boxing Day in England and Wales and St Stephen's Day in Ireland), and five in Scotland (New Year's ...22 KB (3,231 words) - 02:32, 9 February 2023
- Thailand. The disaster has been variously named the Boxing Day Tsunami in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, because it took place ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- whose featured event is the Wanamaker Mile. Boxing is also a very prominent part of the city's sporting scene, with events like the Amateur Boxing ...44 KB (6,512 words) - 09:31, 11 March 2023
- George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was United States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat ...23 KB (3,309 words) - 08:05, 23 January 2023
- Other popular sports are hockey, boxing, football, golf, table tennis ... Stadium of Pakistan, UBL Hockey Ground), boxing (KPT Sports Complex), squash ...42 KB (6,146 words) - 08:28, 28 February 2023
- time of his introduction to gambling and boxing; he refereed a fight between ... 3, 1896, Earp was the referee for the boxing match to determine the heavyweight ...59 KB (9,719 words) - 14:12, 20 May 2023
- seated at ringside during Stan's ill-fated boxing match. As a teenager, Costello had been an amateur boxer in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey. ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 04:43, 14 June 2023
- and first centuries B.C.E. However, except for boxing and chariot racing, most Romans had little interest in Greek athletics, in which serious injuries ...27 KB (4,185 words) - 05:55, 21 August 2023
- styles of Greco-Roman and freestyle to boxing, judo, jujitsu, European styles of folk wrestling, and even fencing. The rules for sport sambo ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- jump. In addition, events such as wrestling, boxing, pankraton and hoplitodromos were added as well. The games existed until 393 C.E. when Roman ...24 KB (3,812 words) - 04:52, 1 May 2023
- cycling, rugby union, handball, tennis, boxing, and martial arts. Soccer is the most popular sport in Burkina Faso, played both professionally ...22 KB (3,224 words) - 18:45, 22 November 2023
- By 1939 he had improved his theatre projection system to televise a boxing match on a screen 15|ft|m|abbr=on by 12|ft|m|abbr=on . "Baird ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 02:31, 9 February 2023
- King's first cousin, and former heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston was his uncle. |right|250px|B. B. King's favorite singer was ...26 KB (3,986 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- not only in academics but also in soccer as well as boxing. In 1930, at the age of 17, however, Camus contracted tuberculosis. This put a halt to his ...25 KB (3,796 words) - 04:59, 17 June 2023
- As a young man he enjoyed riding, boxing, and entertainment with friends. Yuan had wanted to pursue a career in the civil service, but failed ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- Category:Image wanted {{Infobox Celebrity | name = James Joseph Brown, Jr. | image = James Brown Live Hamburg 1973 1702730029.jpg ...25 KB (3,918 words) - 21:04, 20 March 2024
- New York, where his mentor was the New York Boxing Commission official and former Harlem Rens basketball legend Frank "Strangler" Forbes. ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 15:22, 14 May 2023
- The rise of Mike Tyson in boxing, who held most of his fights in Atlantic City in the 1980s, also boosted Atlantic City's popularity. On ...28 KB (3,984 words) - 06:06, 21 August 2023
- and has also hosted ice hockey, indoor soccer, and boxing. San Diego has the dubious distinction of being the largest United States city to have ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- as a soldier in Fixed Bayonets! (1951), a boxing cornerman in Sailor Beware (1952), ... | Boxing Trainer | Hal Walker | Uncredited |- | 1952 | Deadline – U.S.A. ...56 KB (8,516 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- In 1974, Kinshasa hosted the "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match in which Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman to regain the World ...28 KB (3,888 words) - 23:14, 3 March 2023
- Other popular sports include basketball, netball, boxing, volleyball, athletics, and rugby. The National Sports Council also known as Baraza ...29 KB (4,092 words) - 04:27, 27 February 2023
- Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-born American entertainer whose prolific career spanned ...28 KB (4,249 words) - 05:46, 16 November 2023
- Kenya, among them football (soccer), cricket, and boxing. But Kenya is known chiefly for its dominance in cross country and the marathon, middle and ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law [[Image:JohnTNeufeld.jpg|thumb|right|John T. Neufeld was a WWI conscientious objector sentenced ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Boxing, baseball, and basketball are popular. They have their own professional baseball leagues, though San Juan hosted the Montreal Expos for ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 18:10, 14 April 2023
- , and auto racing. He flirted with boxing, and he was offered a pro football contract by the Kansas City Chiefs in 1966. He also was an actor ...36 KB (5,732 words) - 10:56, 15 May 2023
- rounders, lawn tennis, basketball, table tennis, boxing, squash, and a few others. Guyana played host to international cricket matches as part ...31 KB (4,442 words) - 05:41, 27 July 2023
- imposing Idi Amin was the Ugandan light heavyweight boxing champion from 1951 to 1960, as well as a swimmer and rugby player. [https://www.scotsman.com/news/ob ...36 KB (5,445 words) - 21:36, 25 July 2021
- League has a large following. Muay Thai (Thai boxing), Thailand's native martial art, is probably the most popular spectator sport. The other main ...33 KB (4,876 words) - 15:05, 30 April 2023
- medalist, Clarence Hill, who won a bronze medal in boxing. Bermuda also competed in Men's Skeleton (head first luge) at the 2006 Winter Olympics ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- skiing, gymnastics, volleyball, track and field, boxing and wrestling) despite losing the thumb and index finger of his left hand when he and some friends ...42 KB (6,205 words) - 19:43, 20 November 2023
- attended. Aged nineteen, he took an interest in boxing and running. After matriculating, he started to study for a B.A. at the Fort Hare University, where ...40 KB (6,067 words) - 04:28, 11 March 2023
- table tennis, volleyball, tennis, boxing, and track and field are also popular in the country. ==Sierra Leone in literature== Several Hollywood ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- star was granted after the committee decided that boxing could be considered a form of "live performance." Its placement on a wall of the Dolby ...43 KB (6,309 words) - 19:40, 23 July 2022
- include soccer, track and field, judo, boxing, women's basketball and women's tennis. Madagascar sent its first competitors to the ...38 KB (5,416 words) - 04:52, 5 November 2022
- table tennis, fencing, weightlifting, boxing, judo, short track speed skating, marathon, taekwondo, kumdo, wrestling, as well as handball and ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- are the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, starting on Boxing Day in Sydney and usually arriving at Constitution Dock in Hobart around three to four days later ...42 KB (6,077 words) - 04:33, 27 February 2023
- sports include field hockey, basketball, rugby, boxing, tennis, polo, and auto racing. === Public holidays === Argentines commemorate a number ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- murder. He loved hunting, martial arts (except boxing), and was a patron of the arts. Whether his attempt at cultural fusion was purely pragmatic, or ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- tiles, is very popular, especially with women. Boxing, badminton and billiards are popular. === Social status === Filipinos value social acceptance ...42 KB (6,083 words) - 15:26, 27 March 2024
