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A fight between Trinidad and Whitaker had been in the works for several years. In 1995, both fighters had appeared in a doubleheader event billed as Collision Course in which IBF welterweight champion Trinidad would defeat his mandatory challenger Larry Barnes, while Whitaker, then the WBC welterweight champion, would defeat his mandatory challenger Jake Rodriguez.
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The fight lasted the full 12 rounds with Whitaker ultimately earning a close but unanimous decision. The fight started off close but Whitaker took control in the middle rounds as McGirt struggled with his left shoulder injury, basically fighting one-handed as he had his previous fight.
The bout featured a matchup of two of the top ranked pound-for-pound fighters in boxing. 33-year-old Pernell Whitaker had been the WBC welterweight champion for four years, captured world titles in four different divisions and had been among the top pound-for-pound fighters in the sport since 1989, with The Ring magazine listing him number one in their annual pound-for-pound rankings for three ...
31 years, 1 month: Height: 5 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (166 cm) 5 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (171 cm) Weight: 145 lb (66 kg) 142 lb (64 kg) Style: Southpaw: Orthodox: Recognition: WBC Welterweight Champion The Ring No. 2 ranked pound-for-pound fighter 4-division world champion: WBC Super Lightweight Champion The Ring No. 1 ranked pound-for-pound fighter 3 ...
Quincke's Interference Tube is an apparatus that Quincke built in 1866 which demonstrates destructive interference of sound waves. It is also known as the Herschel-Quincke Tube; John Herschel had proposed a similar apparatus, but did not build it. The principles of the apparatus are now applied in mufflers and other noise management devices.
Born at Frankfurt an der Oder, Heinrich was the son of prominent physician Hermann Quincke and the younger brother of physicist Georg Hermann Quincke.He received his doctorate in 1863 from the University of Berlin, having studied previously at the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Würzburg under Rudolf Virchow and Albert von Kölliker.
For the fifth defense of his WBC and lineal welterweight titles, Pernell Whitaker was matched against Jake Rodríguez. Rodríguez was a former IBF light welterweight champion had previously been the chief sparring partner of Whitaker's, working as such for both of Whitaker's previous fights against Julio César Vásquez and Gary Jacobs.