Joseph "Joe" Aloysius Lynch (November 30, 1898 – August 1, 1965) was an American boxer who held the World Bantamweight Championship during his career. An extremely durable fighter, Lynch was never knocked out in nearly 160 bouts despite an aggressive fighting style. Statistical boxing website

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lists Lynch as the #11 ranked bantamweight of all time, while ''

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'' founder

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placed him at #4.Cyber Boxing Encyclopedia - Joe Lynch
CyberBoxingZone.com Retrieved on 2014-04-30 The International Boxing Research Organization rates Lynch as the 11th best bantamweight ever.All-Time Bantamweight Rankings
IBROresearch.com Retrieved on 2014-04-29 He was inducted into the

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in 2005 within the "Old-Timer" category.

Pro career

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Lynch was born in New York City. He won the world bantamweight title in 1920, defeating

Pete Herman Pete Herman (February 12, 1896 – April 13, 1973) was one of the all-time great bantamweight world champions. An American of Italian heritage and descent, Herman was born Peter Gulotta in New Orleans, Louisiana, and fought from 1912 until 1927. ...

. Herman defeated him to regain the title the following year. Lynch regained the title from

Johnny Buff John Lisky (June 12, 1889 – January 14, 1955), better known as Johnny Buff, was an American Boxing, boxer. He was World Bantamweight Champion from 1921 to 1922."Johnny Buff Held Two Boxing Titles", ''The New York Times'', New York, New Yo ...

after Buff defeated Herman, defended it successfully against Midget Smith, but lost in 15 rounds to

Abe Goldstein Abe Goldstein (September 10, 1898 – February 12, 1977) was an American bantamweight boxer from New York. He defeated Joe Lynch to become World Bantamweight champion on March 21, 1924, in Madison Square Garden, and was ranked the #5 bantamweight ...

in 1924.

Death

He retired in 1926 and went to live in New City, NY. After retiring from boxing, Lynch bought a

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and a gymnasium with his earnings from the ring. He later served as postmaster for

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. In 1965 he drowned in an accident in

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. He was found floating in a New York City bay and died en route to the hospital. Foul play was suspected.

Professional boxing record

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, unless otherwise stated.

Official record

All

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s are officially regarded as “no decision” bouts and are not counted as a win, loss or draw.

Unofficial record

Record with the inclusion of

s to the win/loss/draw column.

References

External links

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Joe Lynch
at the IBHOF.
Joe Lynch - CBZ Profile
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