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In January 1949, Stanley Kubrick, then working as a staff photographer for Look magazine, featured Cartier in an eight-page photo essay about boxing, called "Prizefighter". [1] Kubrick was a boxing enthusiast and two years later, he made his debut 16-minute film, Day of the Fight (1951), featuring Cartier and his twin brother Vincent.
Clayton was born on 9 February 1923 in Lancashire, England. He and his two brothers Jackie and Syd all chose boxing as a profession. He became a professional boxer in 1941 and was trained by his brother, Jackie at their gym in Blackpool. He was managed throughout his thirteen-year boxing career by George Dingley. He had thirteen Championship bouts that included a bantamweight championship
Balletto turned pro just 10 days before his 21st birthday, amassing a 30–3–2 record in a 10-year career of boxing, 26 by way of knock out. One of his three losses came to Michael Clark (a unanimous decision in 10 rounds at Foxwoods ), who would later appear on the ESPN reality show " Contender Season 2 " as a team-mate of Balletto, where ...
John Charles Peterson OBE TD (2 September 1911 – 22 November 1990) [1] was a Welsh boxer who held the British heavyweight boxing title on two occasions. He was awarded the Territorial Decoration (TD) in 1950 and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1978 Birthday Honours "for services to Sport particularly in Wales."
Carmine Vingo (December 28, 1929 – June 2, 2015) was a world ranked heavyweight boxer best remembered for his career-ending bout with future world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, culminating in his knockout and resulting brain injury.
By the end of his career Flanagan had amassed an impressive record of 105 wins (38 by knockout) and 22 losses, with 2 draws. Before it was over he had fought such big names as Tim Dalton , Johnny DeFazio , Sandy Saddler , Jackie Graves , Beau Jack , Tommy Campbell , Jimmy Carter , Arthur King , Willie Pastrano , Johnny Saxton , Gene Fullmer ...
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Feldman started boxing since the age of five under the training of his father. At age thirteen, he was featured in the August 1983 edition of Sports Illustrated.Within the feature, he was recognized for scoring a second-round knockout to win the Philadelphia Junior Olympic boxing title, in the 13-and-under category.