Search results for "Boxing" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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 ...47 KB (6,717 words) - 20:17, 28 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
