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Boxing history – from the simply historical to the truly historic. Fights, fighters + a gallimaufry of minutiae from Gary Lucken. Featured in @BoxingNewsED.
An archive somewhere...
Joined February 2016
Major project beginning to come together nicely. Keep 'em peeled...
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The comeback begins - Muhammad Ali returned to the ring after a more than three-year absence to defeat Jerry Quarry at the City Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia, #OnThisDay in 1970. Quarry was forced to retire after three rounds due to a bad cut.
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Superpowers for Superheroes. Today, we unveil EagleEye: the family of warfighter augments that place mission command & AI directly into the operator's helmet.
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The late, great George Foreman became Olympic Heavyweight Champion #OTD in 1968 by defeating Jonas Čepulis in Mexico City.
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Two heavyweight legends collided #OnThisDay in 1951 when Rocky Marciano pounded former champ Joe Louis into retirement via a Round 8 TKO at Madison Square Garden in New York. Marciano commented afterwards: "I was glad I won, but I felt sorry I had to do it to him."
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Sugar Ray Robinson retained his slice of the world middleweight crown (as recognised by Pennsylvania) #OTD in 1950, KO'ing Bobo Olson in Round 12 of 15 at Convention Hall in Philadelphia. Robinson's welterweight laurels were not at stake in this bout. Pictured - referee Charley
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Henry Armstrong gained revenge on Fritzie Zivic, the man who took his welterweight crown, with a 10-round unanimous decision victory at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco #OTD in 1942. Up to 12,000 fans reportedly witnessed the battle between the two former champions.
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The "Ambling Alp" Primo Carnera, World Heavyweight Champion 1933 - 1934, was born in Sequals, Italy, #OnThisDay in 1906.
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The "Boston Gob" Jack Sharkey (Joseph Paul Zukauskas), World Heavyweight Champion 1932 - 1933, was born in Binghamton, New York, #OnThisDay in 1902. Explaining his choice of ring name, Sharkey said: "I called myself Jack, after Jack Dempsey, whom I have always considered one of
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The comeback begins - Muhammad Ali returned to the ring after a more than three-year absence to defeat Jerry Quarry at the City Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia, #OnThisDay in 1970. Quarry was forced to retire after three rounds due to a bad cut.
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The late, great George Foreman became Olympic Heavyweight Champion #OTD in 1968 by defeating Jonas Čepulis in Mexico City.
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Two heavyweight legends collided #OnThisDay in 1951 when Rocky Marciano pounded former champ Joe Louis into retirement via a Round 8 TKO at Madison Square Garden in New York. Marciano commented afterwards: "I was glad I won, but I felt sorry I had to do it to him."
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Sugar Ray Robinson retained his slice of the world middleweight crown (as recognised by Pennsylvania) #OTD in 1950, KO'ing Bobo Olson in Round 12 of 15 at Convention Hall in Philadelphia. Robinson's welterweight laurels were not at stake in this bout. Pictured - referee Charley
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Henry Armstrong gained revenge on Fritzie Zivic, the man who took his welterweight crown, with a 10-round unanimous decision victory at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco #OTD in 1942. Up to 12,000 fans reportedly witnessed the battle between the two former champions.
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The "Ambling Alp" Primo Carnera, World Heavyweight Champion 1933 - 1934, was born in Sequals, Italy, #OnThisDay in 1906.
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The "Boston Gob" Jack Sharkey (Joseph Paul Zukauskas), World Heavyweight Champion 1932 - 1933, was born in Binghamton, New York, #OnThisDay in 1902. Explaining his choice of ring name, Sharkey said: "I called myself Jack, after Jack Dempsey, whom I have always considered one of
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"Fittingly, a slugfest between two heavy-handed power-punchers concluded with a clean, one-shot knockout." It was #OnThisDay, a good, old-fashioned heavyweight brawl in Africa. Check it out: https://t.co/70sTdkJjP6
#Boxing #History #OTD #SouthAfrica With full fight video
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Bob Fitzsimmons was understandably proud of the fact that he was boxing's first triple-weight king. He had his own way of describing the feat - in written correspondence he used headed stationery describing himself as "The only composite champion the world has ever known".
The great Bob Fitzsimmons, aka "Ruby Rob," aka "Fitz," aka "The Fighting Blacksmith," trains with a punching bag, circa 1900. Fitzsimmons is the first ever triple crown champion of boxing, winning world titles at middleweight, heavyweight and light-heavyweight. Despite weighing
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Famed trainer Emanuel Steward died in a Chicago hospital #OnThisDay in 2012 at the age of 68.
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Buster busted - Evander Holyfield won the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight crowns #OnThisDay in 1990 with a Round 3 KO of Buster Douglas at the Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
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Mike Weaver retained the WBA world heavyweight crown #OnThisDay in 1980 with a Round 13 KO of Gerrie Coetzee at the Superbowl in Sun City, South Africa.
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Veteran former welterweight and middleweight king Mickey Walker secured the final official KO of his illustrious career #OTD in 1935 when he sparked Mickey McAvoy in Round 2 of a scheduled 8 at Kalurah Temple in Binghamton, New York. "The Toy Bulldog", outweighed by 16lbs in this
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