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Tunney Hunsaker

2005-07-19T19:48:00Z

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<boxer>009362</boxer>

Hunsaker boxed professionally as a Heavyweight journeyman from 1952 to 1962. Hunnsaker is best remembered as the first professional opponent of Muhammad Ali. Hunsaker faced Ali on October 29, 1960 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky; losing a unanimous six round decision.

Other notable boxers that Hunsaker lost to were; Ernie Terrell, Tom McNeeley, and Alejandor Lavorante.

In his final bout on [[Fight:145557|April 6, 1962]], Hunsaker suffered a brain injury after a 10th round knockout loss to Joe Shelton in Beckley, WV. He remained in a coma for several days.

Hunsaker recovered, and went on to a career as a police officer.

He died April 25, 2005 in Fayeteviile, WV.

== External Link ==
Obituary (AP): [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/more/04/27/hunsaker.obit.ap/]

[[Category:2005 Deaths|Hunsaker, Tunney]]
[[Category:Boxers who survived from a ring accident|Hunsaker, Tunney]]

Tunney Hunsaker

2005-07-19T19:46:59Z

LeTombeur:

<boxer>009362</boxer>

Hunsaker boxed professionally as a Heavyweight journeyman from 1952 to 1962. Hunnsaker is best remembered as the first professional opponent of Muhammad Ali. Hunsaker faced Ali on October 29, 1960 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky; losing a unanimous six round decision.

Other notable boxers that Hunsaker lost to were; Ernie Terrell, Tom McNeeley, and Alejandor Lavorante.

In his final bout on [[Fight:145557|April 6, 1962]], Hunsaker suffered a brain injury after a 10th round knockout loss to Joe Shelton in Beckley, WV.

Hunsaker recovered, and went on to a career as a police officer.

He died April 25, 2005 in Fayeteviile, WV.

== External Link ==
Obituary (AP): [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/more/04/27/hunsaker.obit.ap/]

[[Category:2005 Deaths|Hunsaker, Tunney]]
[[Category:Boxers who survived from a ring accident|Hunsaker, Tunney]]

Bell Centre: Montreal

2005-07-19T19:40:58Z

LeTombeur: /* Montreal, QC, Canada */

== Montreal, QC, Canada ==

*1260 de la Gauchetière St West (near Crescent)
*Home to the Montreal Canadiens National Hockey League team, it regularly hosts boxing cards in Montreal, predominantly INTERBOX events.

[[Category:Canadian Venues|Bell Centre: Montreal]]
[[Category:Montreal Venues|Bell Centre: Montreal]]

Montreal Forum

2005-07-19T19:38:55Z

LeTombeur: /* Montreal, QC, Canada */

== Montreal, QC, Canada ==
[[file:MontrealForum2.jpg|left|frame|<center>Montreal Forum: Circa 1925</center>]]

*St. Catherine & Atwater, just north of Square Cabot
*Capacity: 11,000-14,000
*Existed from 1924 to 1996
*Inaugural professional boxing show was held Monday, 20th April 1925
*The pre-eminent boxing venue of Montreal from the 1920s and for many years later
*A number of world bantamweight title bouts were held here in the early 1930s, when Montreal was considered by many as the Bantamweight Capital of the World.
*The Forum hosted ten world title contests, including [[Boxer:Pete_Sanstol:009935|Pete Sanstol]]-[[Boxer:Archie_Bell:010084|Archie Bell]] (first world title bout ever held in Montreal), Sanstol-[[Boxer:Art_Giroux:041260|Art Giroux]], Sanstol-[[Boxer:Eugene_Huat:009894|Eugene Huat]], Sanstol-[[Boxer:Panama_Al_Brown:008994|Panama Al Brown]], Brown-Huat, [[Boxer:Sixto_Escobar:041270|Sixto Escobar]]-[[Boxer:Rodolfo (Baby) Casanova:009561|Baby Casanova]], Escobar-Sanstol, [[Boxer:Jimmy_Carter:013889|Jimmy Carter]]-[[Boxer:Armand Savoie:012863|Armand Savoie]], and [[Boxer:Archie_Moore:008995|Archie Moore]]-[[Boxer:Yvon Durelle:012488|Yvon Durelle]] I & II.
*As of 1977, and excluding exhibitions, no fewer than 52 world champions had fought in Montreal--many in the Forum.

[[file:MontrealForum.jpg|frame|right|<center>Forum interior: Pete Sanstol (left), Armand Vincent & Archie Bell (May 1931)</center>]] 

Some of Montreal's and the Forum's better-known promoters include:
*[[George Kennedy]]: Montreal's first major boxing promoter, then owner of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.
*[[Armand Vincent]]: 1930s
*[[Aleck Moore]]: 1930s
*[[Leo Dandurand]], [[Joe Cattarinich]], [[Louis Letrourneau]] triumvirate owners of the Montreal Canadiens in the 1920's.
*[[Al Foreman]] & [[Harry Foreman]]
*[[Jules Racicot]]
*[[Meyer Alper]]
*[[Lawson Brampton]]
*[[Raoul Godbout]]: Promoter & Matchmaker 1940s-early 1950s
*[[Eddie Quinn]]: perhaps Montreal's best-known promoter; he left the Forum in 1964
*[[Regis Levesque]]
*[[Gerry Grundman]] & his Matchmaker [[Claude Mouton]]: 1970s
Some of the latter information is courtesy of ''Boxing Illustrated'', August 1977, pp. 44-51.

The Forum has since been gutted and presently (2005) is a shopping and movie theater mall. Its grand history as a boxing venue gets virtually no mention in the memorabilia that the current Forum management displays on the walls of the upper floors.

== External Links ==

*[http://hockey.ballparks.com/NHL/MontrealCanadiens/oldindex.htm History]
*[http://campbellstudio.com/pages/montrealforum.html Illustrated Print]
*[http://hockey.ballparks.com/NHL/MontrealCanadiens/articles.htm Forum Ice Hockey Chronology]
*[http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php?title=Image:ForumProgram.jpg Sample Forum Boxing Programme]
*[http://www.collectionscanada.ca/king/053201/05320113020908_e.html William Lyon Mackenzie King at the Forum]

[[Category:Canadian Venues|Montreal Forum]]
[[Category:Montreal Venues|Montreal Forum]]

Arturo Gatti

2005-03-26T03:35:27Z

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'''Born:''' April 15, 1972 in Montreal, Canada

[[file:gatti.jpg|left|Arturo Gatti]]

== Professional World Titles ==

*IBF Super Featherweight Title (1995-97, vacates title to move to Lightweight)
*WBC Light Welterweight Title (2004- )

== Awards Won ==

[[Ring Magazine Fight of the Year]]: 1997 (W KO5 Gabriel Ruelas), 1998 (L 10 Ivan Robinson), 2002 (L 10 Micky Ward), 2003 (W 10 Micky Ward)

[[Ring Magazine Knockout of the Year]]: 1997 (W KO5 Gabriel Ruelas)

[[Ring Magazine Upset of the Year]]: 1998 (L 10 Ivan Robinson)

[http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=003999 Fight Record]

[[Category: World Super Featherweight Champions|Gatti, Arturo]]
[[Category: World Light Welterweight Champions|Gatti, Arturo]]
[[Category: Canadian World Champions|Gatti, Arturo]]

Benny (Kid) Paret

2005-03-26T02:00:52Z

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Died April 3, 1962 in New York City of injuries received during a world welterweight championship match against Emile Griffith.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=18851

[[Category:Ring Fatalities|Paret, Benny (Kid)]]
[[Category:World Welterweight Champions|Paret, Benny (Kid)]]
[[Category:Cuban World Champions|Paret, Benny (Kid)]]

Luther McCarty

2005-03-26T01:54:35Z

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http://cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/mccarthy.htm
He was married at Sidney, Ohio, in May 1908.
He had at least one child.

Worked as a sparring partner in Culbertson, MT in Fall of 1910.

Luther is a cousin of Tom McCarty.

[[Category:Native American Boxers|McCarty, Luther]]
[[Category:Ring Fatalities|McCarty, Luther]]

Gene Tunney

2005-03-26T01:43:33Z

LeTombeur: Added to several categories

'''Born:''' May 25, 1897 in New York, New York

'''Died:''' November 07, 1978

Named [[Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year]] for 1928.

[http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=009046 Fight Record]

[[Category:World Heavyweight Champions|Tunney, Gene]]
[[Category:Boxers who served in World War I|Tunney, Gene]]
[[Category:Boxers who served in World War II|Tunney, Gene]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members|Tunney, Gene]]

Stanley Ketchel

2005-03-26T01:23:50Z

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[[file:Ketchel.Stanley.jpg|left|Stanley Ketchel]]

<boxer>009028</boxer>
'''Managers''': [[Joe O'Conner]], [[Willus Britt]] 

Also known as the "Michigan Marvel."

Managed by Joe O'Conner, per the August 22, 1908 ''Tacoma Daily News'' (Tacoma, WA, USA). Also managed, at least by 1909, by Willie Britt (older brother of Jimmy), who died suddenly Nov. 1, 1909.

In October 1910, Ketchel--eating breakfast obliviously at Col. R.P. Dickinson's ''Two Bar Ranch'' farm at Conway, Missouri--was killed by a double-barrelled shotgun blast fired by Walter Dipley, who was jealous over the attention his girlfriend had paid to the middleweight boxing great. Ketchel was only 24-years-old. Dipley got a life sentence.

A little over 17 years later, on Feb. 16, 1928, Ketchell's father, Thomas Kiccal, 74, was found in the barn loft of the family farm near Grand Rapids, Michigan, with his throat slashed. His son, John Kiccal, the younger brother of Stanley, was discovered in possession of a blood-stained knife and arrested for the murder. It was thought the motive was a dispute over land that Stanley had left to the family, purchased from his ring earnings, and which had recently multiplied in value.

== External Links ==
*[http://www.secondsout.com/legends/legends_31476.asp Seconds Out]
*[http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/ketchel.htm CBZ Record]
*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2259 Find a Grave]
*[http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/periodicals/ozarkswatch/ow603d.htm An Ozarks Melodrama - The Trial of Walter Dipley]

[[Category:World Middleweight Champions|Ketchel, Stanley]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members|Ketchel, Stanley]]
[[Category:World Boxing Hall of Fame Members|Ketchel, Stanley]]
[[Category:Boxers who were murdered|Ketchel, Stanley]]

George Dixon

2005-03-26T01:19:26Z

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George 'Kid Chocolate' Dixon was one of the all time greats. He had fast hands and was quick on his feet like a cat. On offense, he hit with both hands but mostly utilized a long, straight left accompanied by a stiff right; On defense, he guarded himself well. His quickness and ducking ability made him a difficult target to strike.

Nat Fleischer ranked Dixon as the #1 All-Time Bantamweight.
Charley Rose ranked him as the #2 All-Time Bantamweight.

Dixon was elected to the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1956 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21503

[http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=009015 Fight Record]

'''OUTSIDE LINKS:'''

Biography by [http://www,britannica.com Britannica.com]: http://www.britannica.com/Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=30706

[[Category:World Featherweight Champions|Dixon, George]]
[[Category:Canadian World Champions|Dixon, George]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members|Dixon, George]]

Johnny Coulon

2005-03-26T01:17:24Z

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Also nicknamed "The Chicago Spider."

From GOIN' THE DISTANCE: CANADA'S BOXING HERITAGE by Murray Greig:

Thanks to a physical quirk, Coulon became almost as famous AFTER his retirement as he was in the ring.
For four years he toured the world with vaudeville shows, billing himself as "The Man They Cannot Lift."
Despite his tiny stature, when Coulon planted his feet a certain way not even the strongest of challengers could lift him off the floor.
The gimmick proved to be very lucrative, and Coulon earned enough money in his vaudeville career to purchase a gym in downtown Chicago, which he ran for nearly fifty years.
He also managed junior welterweight champ Eddie Perkins in the 1960s, thus becoming the first ex-champion to manage a world champion.

== Links ==

*International Boxing Hall of Fame Bio: [http://www.ibhof.com/coulon.htm]
*Fight Record: [http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=018023]

[[Category:World Bantamweight Champions|Coulon, Johnny]]
[[Category:Canadian World Champions|Coulon, Johnny]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members|Coulon, Johnny]]

Mysterious Billy Smith

2005-03-26T01:16:04Z

LeTombeur:

[[file:Smith.Billy.Mysterious.jpg|Mysterious Billy Smith]]

<boxer>031315</boxer>
'''Trainer''': [[Billy Hennessey]] 
'''Managers''': [[St.Clair Smith]], [[Frank Dunn]], [[Jack Fahie]]

*Born in either Little River, Nova Scotia or East Port, Missouri
*Died in Portland, OR (of Uremia, after a long illness)
*Boxed from 1891 from 1915, mostly out of Portland, Oregon
*Generally regarded as one of the dirtiest fighters in boxing history.
*Father of boxer [http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=136720 Mysterious Billy Smith, Jr.], of Portland, OR, USA

== Career Highlights ==
*First claimed the World Welterweight Title after a December 14, 1892, knockout win in 14 rounds over [[Danny Needham]]. He defended this claim once.
*Had two unsuccessful attempts at the World Welterweight Title in 1894 and 1895. Both bouts came against [[Tommy Ryan ]](L 20, D 18)
*Won the World Welterweight Title on August 25, 1898, when he defeated [[Matty Matthews]] on a 25-round decision.
*He then lost the Welterweight Title to [[Rube Ferns]] on January 15, 1900 on a foul, after knocking him down fifteen times in the bout. Due to the controversial manner of the outcome, he still claimed the title.
*Lost all claims on the Welterweight Title on April 17, 1900, when he was knocked out in 19 rounds by Matty Matthews

== Newspaper Factoids ==

*Reported by the ''Everett Daily Herald'', October 15, 1937, as having been born in East Port, Missouri (not Canada).
*After his boxing career, he conducted a saloon and later a beer parlor in Portland, Oregon.
*On Dec. 17, 1911, at Portland, Oregon, he was shot three times by the husband of his divorced wife--Capt. A.B. Loomis. Although seriously wounded, he recovered.
*The Dec. 21 ''Tacoma Daily News'' reported that his debut was a L-10 to "Brocky" Frank Purcell of Salt Lake City at the California A.C., San Francisco.
*The August 26, 1927 ''Daily News Searchlight'' of Bremerton, WA, USA, reported that Smith ran a Tacoma hotel business. It also reported that he was near death on Sept. 10.

[[Category:World Welterweight Champions|Smith, Mysterious Billy]]
[[Category:Canadian World Champions|Smith, Mysterious Billy]]

George Dixon

2005-03-26T01:15:05Z

LeTombeur:

Dixon was one of the all time greats. He had fast hands and was quick on his feet like a cat. On offense, he hit with both hands but mostly utilized a long, straight left accompanied by a stiff right; On defense, he guarded himself well. His quickness and ducking ability made him a difficult target to strike.

Nat Fleischer ranked Dixon as the #1 All-Time Bantamweight.
Charley Rose ranked him as the #2 All-Time Bantamweight.

Dixon was elected to the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1956 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=21503

[http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=009015 Fight Record]

'''OUTSIDE LINKS:'''

Biography by [http://www,britannica.com Britannica.com]: http://www.britannica.com/Blackhistory/article.do?nKeyValue=30706

[[Category:World Featherweight Champions|Dixon, George]]
[[Category:Canadian World Champions|Dixon, George]]

User:LeTombeur

2005-03-26T01:14:28Z

LeTombeur:

Alex Pelletier
(Ottawa, Canada)
Writer

* BoxingTalk [http://www.boxingtalk.net]
* La Zone de boxe[http://www.lazonedeboxe.com]

User:LeTombeur

2005-03-26T01:12:24Z

LeTombeur:

Alex Pelletier
(Ottawa, Canada)
Writer

[http://www.boxingtalk.net]BoxingTalk
[http://www.lazonedeboxe.com]La Zone de boxe

User:LeTombeur

2005-03-26T01:11:50Z

LeTombeur:

Alex Pelletier
(Ottawa, Canada)

[http://www.boxingtalk.net]
[http://www.lazonedeboxe.com]

Jack Delaney

2005-03-26T01:02:37Z

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Born Ovila Chapdelaine in St-François-du-Lac, Québec, Canada. He moved with his family to New England during his youth, settling in Bridgeport, CT.

Promoted by Joe Jacobs and Billy McCarney, according to December 1927 newspaper sources. He was managed by Al Jennings, Pete Reilly and Billy Prince.

Delaney won the World Light Heavyweight title against Paul Berlenbach in June 1926, but relinquished his title without defending it to pursue his career at heavyweight.

Died at Katonah, New York of a heart attack at age 48. Inducted to the IBHOF in 1996.

== External Links ==
*Cyber Boxing Zone: [http://cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/delaney-j.htm]
*Fight Record: [http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=012049]

[[Category:World Light Heavyweight Champions|Delaney, Jack]]
[[Category:Canadian World Champions|Delaney, Jack]]
[[Category:IBHOF Members|Delaney, Jack]]