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James John Corbett (September 1, 1866 – February 18, 1933) was an American professional boxer and a World Heavyweight Champion, best known as the only man who ever defeated John L. Sullivan (hence the "man who beat the man" concept of the championship boxing lineage).
Robert James Fitzsimmons (26 May 1863 – 22 October 1917) was a British professional boxer who was the sport's first three-division world champion. [1] [2] He also achieved fame for beating Gentleman Jim Corbett (the man who beat John L. Sullivan), and he is in The Guinness Book of World Records as the lightest heavyweight champion, weighing just 167 pounds when he won the title. [3]
Nevertheless, Corbett won the legendary bout when he KOed Choynski in the 27th round. In 1892 he KOd a 39-year-old legend in Boston's George Godfrey. Choynski was never given an opportunity to fight for the heavyweight title, but enjoyed some stunning successes against famed heavyweights James J. Jeffries and Jack Johnson before they became ...
James J. Corbett (1866–1933), a.k.a. "Gentleman Jim", American professional boxer, world heavyweight champion. Jim Corbett (athletic director) (1919–1967), American athletics director at LSU, first president of the NACDA, namesake of Corbett Award; James Corbett (American football) (born 1955), American football player
Gentleman Jim is a 1942 film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn as heavyweight boxing champion James J. Corbett (1866–1933). The supporting cast includes Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, William Frawley, and Ward Bond as John L. Sullivan. The movie was based upon Corbett's 1894 autobiography, The Roar of the Crowd. The role ...
In 1902, she and Maggie, who was similarly jealous of any potential wife for Jim, managed to obstruct his courtship of a holidaying English girl he had fallen in love with. [66] Within months of Mary Corbett's death on 16 May 1924, Jim fell deeply in love with a nineteen-year-old woman named Helen, who was on holiday in India with her parents.
While John Corbett’s Sex and the City character, Aidan Shaw, has an on-again, off-again romance with Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), his real-life relationship with wife Bo Derek is ...
The following year, she appeared in the Errol Flynn movie Gentleman Jim, a biography of Irish-American boxer James J. Corbett. [3] Lebeau learned English during a seven-week stay with Dalio on a Portuguese freighter that was seeking a port for landing. [4]