• major impact internationally. In boxing, changes connected to these developments could be seen too, as boxers who fought at the 1940s conflict returned to...
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    The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "'50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January...
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  • Murderers' Row refers to a group of middleweight boxing contenders in the United States competing in the 1940s, primarily of a Black American background...
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  • Tiger Jones (category American boxing biography stubs)
    August 20, 1994) was a boxer during the 1950s. Trained by Gil Clancy, Jones was a fixture of televised boxing in the 1950s, known for an aggressive style that...
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    Kickboxing (redirect from KickBoxing)
    boxing type based on punching and kicking. Kickboxing originated in the 1950s to 1970s. The fight takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves...
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    Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers...
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    The origins of Boxing in the United States can be traced as far back as the 19th century. Boxing, as a form of martial art and solo sport, has been around...
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    boxing moved from bare-knuckle to using boxing gloves. The last major world heavyweight championship held under bare-knuckle boxing rules happened in...
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  • the 159th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. The...
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    crowd of 10,000 people in his home town of Leamington with the mayors of both Leamington and Warwick present. Boxing in the 1950s was a mainstream sport...
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  • respected boxing referees in the 1950s. During his boxing career, he was trained and managed by Hymie Cantor. Ruby Goldstein was born on Cherry Street, in a small...
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  • Barbara Buttrick (category English emigrants to the United States)
    champion in women's boxing in the 1940s and 1950s. Originally from England, Buttrick is considered a pioneer of women's professional boxing. Buttrick...
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  • (September 1949 – 1955) Boxing from Eastern Parkway (May 1952-May 1954) Saturday Night at the Garden (1950-1951) HBO Boxing (1973-2018) 1950s portal Gamache,...
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  • Billy Graham (American boxer) (category International Boxing Hall of Fame inductees)
    decision. In a 2002 interview with The Observer, Budd Schulberg talked about mob involvement in boxing in the 1950s and how Gavilan both won and lost the welterweight...
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    Ray Arcel (category American boxing trainers)
    and the International Boxing Club in the 1950s, Arcel retired from training, after being injured with a lead pipe during an attack in Boston, in a case...
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    boxing, mixed martial arts and physical fitness, which markets its products worldwide. The company was founded in The Bronx and is currently based in...
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  • Boxing in China began as a street sport in the 1920s, mainly in the port cities of Shanghai and Guangzhou, where foreign sailors were pitted against local...
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  • for the purpose of regulating boxing in the State of New York, thanks to New York's place as the epicenter of boxing from the 1930s through 1950s, the NYSAC...
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  • Billy Collins Jr. (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    Sweet Science, 2008-04-06. "HBO: Assault in the Ring". hbo.com. July 18, 2009. Retrieved July 18, 2009. Boxing record for Billy Collins Jr. from BoxRec...
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  • Boxing in the 1940s in many ways reflected worldwide events that affected other endeavors as well. World War II raged early in the decade, and just like...
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  • Boxing is a popular sport in Wales, and since the early 20th century Wales has produced a notable number of professional boxers including several World...
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  • Stu Nahan (category American boxing commentators)
    television sportscaster in Los Angeles from the 1950s through the 1990s. He is also remembered for his role as a boxing commentator in the first six Rocky films...
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    Sanda (sport) (redirect from Chinese Boxing)
    military based upon the study and practices of traditional Chinese martial arts and modern combat fighting techniques; it combines boxing and full-contact...
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  • arts. Chronology is not the decisive criterion, as, for example, "traditional" Taekwondo was developed in the 1950s, while the "modern" hybrid martial...
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    in May 2004. It paid homage to the original Alhambra Movie Theater in South Philadelphia that hosted boxing in the 1950s and 1960s. Renovations were undertaken...
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  • Cuba's national heavyweight boxing champion in the 1940s and 1950s. Statistical boxing website BoxRec rates Valdés as the 8th best Cuban boxer ever across...
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    created in the 1950s. American kickboxing was developed in the 1970s, as a combination of boxing and karate. Taekwondo was developed in the context of the Korean...
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  • British Cinema of The 1950s The Decline of Deference. Oxford University Press USA. p. 68. "Robert Beatty in boxing picture". The Mail. Vol. 42, no. 2...
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  • rape and murder of schoolgirl boxing fan which has been unsolved for seven decades". Mirror Online. Archived from the original on 18 July 2017. Retrieved...
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  • The series began with King John for the day of Magna Carta's 800th anniversary. In 2016 three special episodes were produced and shown throughout the...
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