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Eugène Criqui
Eugène Criqui (15 August 1893 – 7 July 1977) was a French boxer who held the World Featherweight title in 1923. After his death, he was added to the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Eugène was the 2015 Inductee for the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame International category. Boxing career Early career and military service Criqui was born in the Belleville neighbourhood of Paris. He was a professional pipe-fitter before he turned professional in 1910. He won the French flyweight title in 1912. His boxing career was interrupted when he served in the French military in World War I. While doing guard duty at Verdun, his jaw was shattered by a sniper's bullet. A surgeon reconstructed the jaw using wire, silver, and a goat leg. World featherweight champion After the war he resumed boxing. He won the French featherweight title in 1921 and the next year won the European Boxing Union featherweight championship. On 2 June 1923 he beat Johnny Kilbane by a six ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Featherweight
Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling. Boxing Professional boxing History A featherweight boxer weighs in at a limit of . In the early days of the division, this limit fluctuated. The British have generally always recognized the limit at 126 pounds, but in America the weight limit was at first 114 pounds. An early champion, George Dixon (boxer), George Dixon, moved the limit to 120 and then 122 pounds. Finally, in 1920 the United States fixed the limit at 126 pounds. The 1860 fight between Nobby Clark and Jim Elliott is sometimes called the first featherweight championship. However, the division only gained wide acceptance in 1889 after the Ike Weir–Frank Murphy fight (one of the most famous fights of all time). Since the end of the 2000s and early 2010s the featherweight division is one of the most active in boxing with fighters such as Orlando Salido, Chris John (boxer), Chris John, Juan Manu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Hébrant
Henri Hébrant (born 10 February 1904, date of death unknown) was a Belgian boxer. He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van .... References 1904 births Year of death missing Belgian male boxers Olympic boxers for Belgium Boxers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Liège Bantamweight boxers {{Belgium-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. * January 13 ** The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting. ** U.S. Marines from the ''USS Boston'' land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. * January 15 – The ''Telefon Hírmondó'' service starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest. * January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani. * January 21 ** The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa. ** The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Featherweight Boxers
Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling. Boxing Professional boxing History A featherweight boxer weighs in at a limit of . In the early days of the division, this limit fluctuated. The British have generally always recognized the limit at 126 pounds, but in America the weight limit was at first 114 pounds. An early champion, George Dixon, moved the limit to 120 and then 122 pounds. Finally, in 1920 the United States fixed the limit at 126 pounds. The 1860 fight between Nobby Clark and Jim Elliott is sometimes called the first featherweight championship. However, the division only gained wide acceptance in 1889 after the Ike Weir–Frank Murphy fight (one of the most famous fights of all time). Since the end of the 2000s and early 2010s the featherweight division is one of the most active in boxing with fighters such as Orlando Salido, Chris John, Juan Manuel López, Celestino Caballero, Yurior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World Flyweight Boxing Champions
This is a list of world flyweight boxing champions, as recognized by the four major sanctioning organizations in boxing: * The World Boxing Association (WBA), established in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA). The WBA often recognize up to two world champions in a given weight class; Super champion and Regular champion. * The World Boxing Council (WBC), established in 1963. * The International Boxing Federation (IBF), established in 1983. * The World Boxing Organization (WBO), established in 1988. World IBF WBC WBA WBO See also * List of British world boxing champions References External links *https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/National_Boxing_Association *https://boxrec.com/media/index.php/The_Ring_Magazine%27s_Annual_Ratings *https://www.hugmansworldchampionshipboxing.com/fly *https://titlehistories.com/boxing/na/usa/ny/nysac-fl.html {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Flyweight Boxing Champions * Flyweight Flyweight is a weight class in combat spor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sid Smith (boxer)
Sid Smith (2 February 1889 – 28 April 1948) was an English professional boxer who competed from 1907 to 1919. He was the first officially recognised BBBofC British flyweight champion, holding the title from 1912 to 1913, and was also recognized by the International Boxing Union as the world flyweight champion in 1913. Professional career Born in Bermondsey, London, of Jewish heritage, Smith learned to box as a boy at the Oxford Medical Mission in Bermondsey. He had his first professional fight on 1 February 1907, a day before his eighteenth birthday, beating Jack Brooks on points over six rounds. He was not a hard hitter but was a fast mover, who always displayed outstanding footwork. Smith held an early claim to the championship of England, beating Stoker Bill Hoskyne over 20 2-minute rounds in September 1911, at The Ring, Blackfriars, London on points, and beating Louis Ruddick on points in October 1911 at Liverpool Stadium. Taking the British Empire flyweight title, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Jones (boxer)
Percy Jones (26 December 1892 – 25 December 1922) was a Welsh professional boxer who competed from 1911 to 1916. He became the first Welshman to win a World championship when he took the IBU flyweight title from Bill Ladbury in 1914. The IBU later became the EBU and that is why the achievement was taken into context when comparing fighters of the same era. Jones also took the British and European flyweight titles from Ladbury in the same match. He has been voted number 6 in a BBC poll of Welsh boxing greats. History Born in Porth and raised in a coal mining family, Jones made his name at a local level, fighting in boxing booths.Haines, Chris (2008)Boxing: Percy Jones was a real knockout, Wales Online, 10 July 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2017Prior, Neil (2014)Percy Jones' 1914 title began century of Wales' boxing wins, BBC, 25 January 2014. Retrieved 24 December 2017 His first significant professional fight was a win (via disqualification) over Joe Symonds in March 1913. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Sullivan (boxer)
Steve "Kid" Sullivan (May 21, 1897 – September 6, 1979) was an American boxer who took the World Jr. Lightweight Title against Johnny Dundee on June 20, 1924, at the Henderson Bowl in Brooklyn, New York, in a ten round points decision. Andy Neiderreiter, Joe Sarno, and Paddy Roche served as his managers during his career. Early career Sullivan was born on May 21, 1897 in Brooklyn, New York and resided there most of his life. He fought almost exclusively in the Brooklyn area from 1911-1914, though some of his earliest fights are not well documented by BoxRec. One source placed his earliest bouts around 1907-8. Taking some time to gain prominence, he won a ten round newspaper decision against well rated Jewish New York boxer Frankie Callahan at the Broadway arena in Brooklyn on January 22, 1916. Callahan would fight five world champions in his short life, including being credited with a win against future world lightweight champion Benny Leonard the following year. Sullivan fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Noble
Tommy Noble (4 March 1897 – 1 April 1966) was a British boxer who was British bantamweight champion between 1918 and 1919, and European champion in 1919. He won the World featherweight title in 1920. Career Noble enlisted into the British Army when World War I broke out, but was discharged as medically unfit in January 1915. He made his professional debut in February 1915 with a win over Jim Welsh. He fought 29 times in 1915, winning 23. His first fight of 1916 was a loss to Jimmy Wilde, and he was also beaten in April, and again in July, by Joe Symonds.Roberts, James B. & Skutt, Alexander G. (2006) ''The Boxing Register: International Boxing Hall of Fame Official Record Book'', McBooks Press, , p. 243 He had a run of success later in the year, beating Bill Ladbury twice, before five straight defeats to Johnny Hughes, Digger Stanley, Joe Fox, Wilde, and Tancy Lee. He beat Hughes on points in November. In 1917 he was called up under the Derby Scheme and served as a private in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memphis Pal Moore
Memphis Pal Moore (born Thomas Wilson Moore) was an American boxer from Memphis, Tennessee, who claimed the World Bantamweight Championship in 1918 defeating championship claimant Johnny Ertle in Baltimore. He was rated as the seventeenth best bantamweight of all time by boxing.com, and was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2010. Managed by Tommy Walsh, Moore fought over 260 fights. He fought over thirty bouts with fifteen world champions, of which he impressively won nineteen. Boxing record Early boxing career Moore was born on July 28, 1894, in Kenton, Tennessee. Beginning in 1913 in the Memphis area, he was undefeated in his first 10 fights. On March 25, 1915, Moore defeated Italian boxer Young Zulu Kid in a ten-round points decision in New Orleans, Louisiana. He would defeat the talented Zulu Kid two more times, on January 13, 1916, in an eight-round points decision in his hometown of Memphis and on August 5, 1916, in a ten-round newspaper decision i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ledoux
Charles Ledoux (27 October 1892 – 21 May 1967) was a French bantamweight boxer who was active from 1909 to 1926. While never capturing a world title, he squared off against the best opposition available to him both nationally and internationally. During his career, Ledoux faced the likes of Jim Driscoll, Georges Carpentier, Johnny Coulon, Kid Herman, Kid Williams, Eugène Criqui and Joe Lynch. Ledoux was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2014. He was one on the hardest hitting bantamweights in boxing history, with 43 of his 86 knockouts coming in the first 3 rounds and 16 of them in the first round. Professional boxing record All information in this section is derived from BoxRec, unless otherwise stated. Official record All newspaper decisions are officially regarded as "no decision" bouts and are not counted in the win/loss/draw column. Unofficial record Record with the inclusion of newspaper decision A newspaper decision was a type of dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Fox (boxer)
Joe Fox (8 February 1894 – 2 April 1965), also known as Joey Fox and in the early part of his career Young Fox, was a British Boxing, boxer who was British bantamweight champion between 1915 and 1918, and British featherweight champion between 1921 and 1924. Career Born in Leeds, Joe Fox's earliest recorded fight was in June 1909. In January 1911 he beat former English and World champion Harry McDermott at the National Sporting Club. Between 1911 and 1913 he fought the likes of Alex Lafferty (loss), Johnny Curran (boxer), Johnny Curran (two wins, one draw), and Bill Ladbury (two losses, one win). In December 1913 he travelled to the United States where he fought eleven times over the next eighteen months, winning nine but losing to Frankie Burns and Eddie Campi. On his return to England he won six straight fights before a draw against Curley Walker in December 1914. He then beat Lafferty and drew with Bill Beynon before losing to Charlie Ward. He beat Beynon in August 1915 but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
