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Solly Krieger

2007-02-15T16:11:02Z

Msk914:

[[file:Krieger.Solly.jpg|left|175px|Solly Krieger]]
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'''Manager''': [[Hymie Caplin]]

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* The [[Ring Magazine: March 1950|March 1950]] ''The Ring'' magazine, in its article on the Golden Gloves, stated that in his amateur days in 1929, Krieger was known as Danny Auerbach before changing his name. (He used that name because he first fought in the Golden Gloves under the age limit, so he used his friend's ID. But he was born Solly Krieger.)

=== World Title History ===
Krieger won the [[National Boxing Association]] Middleweight Title on November 1, 1938 over [[Al Hostak]] by 15 round majority decision. Hostak broke both hands in the bout which left him ineffective offensively. However, Krieger fought inside Hostak, and did very effective body work against his opponent.

In his rematch with Hostak on June 27, 1939, Krieger struggled to make weight, and by accounts of papers--such as the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer''--he was a mere shadow of the fighter who had won the title seven months earlier. Hostak easily disposed of him in four rounds to regain the NBA Title.

After his loss to Hostak, Krieger moved up to Light Heavyweight, and would fight his last fight as a Heavyweight, against [[Lee Savold]].

[[Category:World Middleweight Champions|Krieger, Solly]]
[[Category:American World Champions|Krieger, Solly]]
[[Category:Jewish Boxers|Krieger, Solly]]

User talk:Msk914

2007-02-15T16:05:01Z

Msk914:

Feel free to add or alter any factual errors on Solly Kreiger's page. There are no restrictions on editing. --[[User:Matt Tegen|Matt Tegen]] 17:16, 14 February 2007 (CST)

Matt: I could not find a way to edit the Birth Name field, can you tell me how?

Mark

Talk:Solly Krieger

2007-02-14T20:45:40Z

Msk914:

His amateur name was Danny Auerbach because he was fighting underage in Golden Gloves and used his friend's name. I know that part from family history. He might have been hiding his fighting from his deeply religious family, but I do not know that for sure. Danny Auerbach was not his birth name. (His grandfather, my great grandfather, Louis Krug, came to America in the late 1860s or early 1870s, was renamed Louis Crook, and Louis' sons all renamed themselves Krieger, not sure why). My elder Uncle Leo Krieger apparently has one or more of Solly's 'golden gloves' given to my grandmother; but I have never seen them. And a scrapbook from the 1930s. In the 50s, when I was a little kid, my dad (Solly's first cousin) and I would see Solly from Las Vegas on fight night on early TV when he was announced at ringside.

Mark Krieger