Charlie Mangum

Name: Charlie Mangum
Alias: The Fighting Convict
Hometown: Danville, Virginia, USA
Birthplace: Danville, Virginia, USA
Stance: Orthodox
Referee: Record
Pro Boxer: Record

Manager: J. Marshall Berry

• Mangum started his boxing career while serving a sentence for highway robbery in Raleigh's North Carolina State Prison. He had been arrested in Jan 1925, aged 19 or 20.
• First bouts in 1926, when boxing was allowed at the prisons to "break up the monotony."
• Scheduled to meet Kid Hauser, Feb 25, 1927, result needed. Prison bout.
• Released from prison on April 11 1928 after completing 3-year sentence; he was already free to box outside of the prison in January 1928.