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Fight of the Week is a live American professional boxing series that aired on ABC-TV from 1960 to 1964. [1]After NBC-TV's cancellation of The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports in the spring of 1960, ABC took over the prime time boxing program, although it was renamed Fight of the Week.
Charlie Senior (born 20 November 2001) is an English-born Australian boxer. As an amateur, he has represented Australia at the 2023 Pacific Games , where he won the gold medal, and the 2024 Summer Olympics , where he won the bronze medal.
During the 1960s, boxing, like mostly everything else around the world, went through changing times.Notable was the emergence of a young boxer named Cassius Clay, who would, in his own words shock the world, declare himself against war, and change his name to Muhammad Ali.
In June 1970 the first Senior Olympics took place at the Los Angeles Coliseum (1970 known as Senior Sports International Meet). [3] The games continued in the 1970s and 1980s in the Los Angeles and Orange County, California. [4] Today the meet is known as the Senior Games (or Senior Olympics). The Senior Games are now held in every state in the ...
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Billy Collins was born to a working class Irish family in Antioch, Tennessee.His father and manager, Billy Collins Sr.(1937–2018), was a welterweight professional boxer during the late 1950s and early 1960s who won 38 of his 56 professional fights.
Boxing on ABC refers to a series of boxing events [1] that have been televised on the American Broadcasting Company. Many of these events aired under the Wide World of Sports [ 2 ] banner which began on April 11, 1964 when challenger Muhammad Ali , then known as Cassius Clay, defeated champion Sonny Liston in the seventh round.
Buster Mathis (June 11, 1943 – September 6, 1995 [1]) was an American boxer who competed from 1965 to 1972. [2] He was a top contender throughout his career, beating other top contenders including George Chuvalo and Chuck Wepner.