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In 1926 the Chicago Tribune started a boxing competition called the Golden Gloves. The United States of America Amateur Boxing Federation (now USA Boxing), which governs American amateur boxing, was formed after Amateur Sports Act of 1978 enabled the governance of sports in the US by organizations other than the AAU.
The sport of boxing in the 1930s was affected by one of the biggest economic struggles in the history of the United States: the depression era. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Because of the suffering American economy, many boxers were offered lower amounts of money causing them to only box for passion.
Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as The Fight of the Century or simply The Fight, [2] was an undisputed heavyweight championship boxing match between WBA, WBC, and The Ring heavyweight champion Joe Frazier and Lineal champion Muhammad Ali, on Monday, March 8, 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Boxing in the 1940s in many ways reflected worldwide events that affected other endeavors as well. [ 1 ] World War II raged early in the decade, and just like baseballers, many popular boxers went overseas to fight for their countries, Joe Louis , Billy Conn , Beau Jack , and Bob Montgomery among them.
June 24 – Hogan Bassey becomes Nigeria's first world boxing champion in history, winning the vacant world Featherweight title with a tenth-round knockout of Cherif Hamia, at Paris. September 23 – Carmen Basilio becomes the world's Middleweight champion by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson by a fifteen-round split decision, at New York.
A Pictorial History of Boxing. Hamlyn. ISBN 0-600-50288-0. Baker, Mark Allen (2010). TITLE TOWN, USA: Boxing in Upstate New York. ISBN 978-1-59629-769-2. History of London Boxing. BBC News. Weight classification, "2009". Encyclopædia Britannica. Fleischer, Nat, Sam Andre, Nigel Collins, Dan Rafael (2002). An Illustrated History of Boxing ...
July 2 – In boxing's first million dollar fight in history, (and the year's most anticipated bout) Jack Dempsey retains the world Heavyweight championship with a fourth-round knockout over world Light-Heavyweight champion Georges Carpentier in Jersey City. The public paid an overall total of $1,789,238 at the ticket gates.
The year after the fight chronicled in Day of the Fight took place, Walter Cartier made boxing history by knocking out Joe Rindone in the first 47 seconds of a match (16 October 1951). Cartier had played some bit parts in movies before he appeared in Day of the Fight , and afterwards, up until 1971, he continued to appear occasionally in films ...