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Famous Professional Boxers and Boxing Personalities
The boxing world has produced talented and world famous personalities in both the amateur and professional realms. Famous amateur boxers were gold medalsists in the Olympics. The Olympic games have long been considered a springboard for professional entry, though some Olympic champions prefer to retain their amateur status (Teofilo Stevenson is a prime example). It is the professional side of boxing, however, that has produced the celebrities whose activities the public have generally followed.
The bareknuckle era produced legends like John L. Sullivan. In the period between bare-knuckle pugilism and post-Queensberry boxing, Jem Mace called the Father of modern Boxing was notable.
It is the post-Queensberry (or modern) era that has the greatest number of legendary boxers. Beginning with Jim Jeffries and later Tommy Burns (who lost to the first black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson (1908-1915)), the initial years were more open fights where boxing style and technique was still rugged, and spunk and stamina were assets. Heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey (1919-1926) was one of the most important fighters of this era. Boxing in the 1930s, despite being hit by depression, saw one of the greatest boxers of all time: Joe Louis. From 1937, he dominated the heavyweight scene for 12 years before retiring as World Champion.
The beginning of WW2 saw great fighters like Max Schmeling, Billy Conn and Joe Louis involved in matchups billed as a battle among the warring nations involved (although Conn was Irish-American). The 1950s had a boxer who would go down in history as the only undefeated world heavyweight champion: Rocky Marciano. The title of the movie Rocky was inspired by this legend. The 50s also had other champions like Sugar Ray Robinson, Archie Moore and many others who broke several records that would stand for decades, all of which makes Marciano's achievement all the more notable.
"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision."
Muhammad Ali, American Boxer
The decades of the 1960s & 1970s are best remembered by the dominance of a boxer named Cassius Clay who would, as he said, "shock the world", declare himself against war, and change his name to Muhammad Ali. Many sociologists, observers, and critics now view Ali as a reflection of the changing society of that decade. Ali had tough opponents like Joe Frazier, Leon Spinks, Ken Norton and George Foreman, yet he managed to bounce back time and again. Larry Holmes (an apprentice of Ali) and the electric promoter Don King both gained prominence during this time.
If ever there was a bad boy of boxing, the title surely would go to a man who burst into professional boxing like a hurricane. Mike Tyson, nicknamed "Iron" becaused he possessed the most devastating punches of all-time, took the world by storm. The most dominant figure on the heavyweight circuit in the mid-to-late 80s, he ran through his opponents in just a few rounds, winning mostly by knockout. Both on and off stage, he was always in the news, getting jailed multiple times, barred from pro boxing for a year after biting Evander Holyfield's ear, and going into bankruptcy. By the time he faced Lennox Lewis in 2002 he was beaten both physically and mentally. Lewis, the only British heavyweight titleholder in the 20th century, would retire as champion leaving Vitali Klitschko considered the new heavyweight champion by most (but not all) of the boxing public.
Even in other weight cateogries, successful fighters have provoked fierce local pride. The best example was Jimmy Wilde, a Welsh World Flyweight Champion (1916-1923). He once had a sequence of eighty-eight fights without defeat. Between 1911 and 1923, he won seventy-five of his fights by a knockout. Willie Pep a featherweight champion who lost just 1 of his 230 fights is another pugilist who dominated the lower weight class. But the greatest of the pugilists in non heavyweight division would undoubtedly be Sugar Ray Robinson who won an unprecedented five world titles in five weight classes and competed in some of the era's most memorable contests. Pound for pound he is regarded by many boxing pundits as the greatest boxer of the century.
The most popular boxers, however, have not always been the world title-holders. Just fighting for the world title in the Heavyweight division can bestow celebrity status, as was shown by Henry Cooper, who twice unsuccessfully fought Muhammad Ali in the 1960s.
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Did boxer Joe Louis ever spar with a man named Calvin Conk?
Thanx Allen! Hey, where could I possibly look this up? I know Conk's widow, he died the same day as the shuttle went down.
He very well may have. If it is the Calvin Conk I am thinking of they would have sparred during Louis's come back in the very early 1950's. Conk would have been around 20 or 21 years old at the time. Conk is still living.
Can't give out too much info but there is a Calvin Conk living in Florida. He was a boxer but probably not the one you are looking for since you know his widow.
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