Peter Felix
Peter Felix
Going through my family history and have discovered my dads father was a boxer who fought under the name Peter Felix we think with sharmans boxing tents hopong someone can help with a bit of the history
Re: Peter Felix
I just checked and there are 3 Australians by that name to fight pro. A Welterweight who had 18 fights in Melbourne in the 20s, a light flyweight who had 1 fight in '31 at Newcastle and a heavyweight who was born in Denmark and fought late 1800-1900s. Not too sure about Jimmy Sharmans as he was around for a fair while.Britto85 wrote:Going through my family history and have discovered my dads father was a boxer who fought under the name Peter Felix we think with sharmans boxing tents hopong someone can help with a bit of the history
Re: Peter Felix
It is a bit hard with so little information provided up front.
Took a punt with the 20s WW Fox mentioned. The late 1800s HW is quite well known, there is plenty of info readily avaliable on him. The other who had one bout in 1931 is just too obscure.
The 1920s Peter Felix was an indigenous fighter, aggressive style, trained by Fred Boyd. Couldnt find much else, likely because he only ever fought one 10 rounder.
His brother was Peter "Cocoa" Jackson, he became Australian FW champion and is much more well known... here is a good article about his career where he actually holds a likeness to a young Iron Mike in his photo lol.... another article mentions the brothers are from Frankston, Victoria....
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/artic ... rchLimits=
Took a punt with the 20s WW Fox mentioned. The late 1800s HW is quite well known, there is plenty of info readily avaliable on him. The other who had one bout in 1931 is just too obscure.
The 1920s Peter Felix was an indigenous fighter, aggressive style, trained by Fred Boyd. Couldnt find much else, likely because he only ever fought one 10 rounder.
His brother was Peter "Cocoa" Jackson, he became Australian FW champion and is much more well known... here is a good article about his career where he actually holds a likeness to a young Iron Mike in his photo lol.... another article mentions the brothers are from Frankston, Victoria....
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/artic ... rchLimits=