Tom Kennedy

Name: Tom Kennedy
Hometown: New York, New York, USA
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Died: 1965-10-06 (Age:81)
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 183cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

Division: Heavyweight
Manager: Dan McKetrick
Photo of Kennedy & Joe Jeanette (1912)

Tom Kennedy was a "White Hope" boxer of his day.

Rumor has it that he witnessed a gangland killing and fled to California. He later became well-known as the boxing match-maker for the Hollywood American Legion Stadium, from August 1923 to March 1925. He was also a motion picture actor, said to have been one of the original Keystone Cops, in that series of comedy silent films. And he managed boxer Newsboy Brown for a while in 1929.

Kennedy died of bone cancer Oct. 6, 1965, in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

(Kennedy was scheduled to fight Al Benedict on December 18, 1911 at New York's Olympic A.C. but injured his hand in a sparring session and had to back out.)

• Kennedy was scheduled to box Carl Morris at New Orleans, December 23, 1912. Result unknown.

External Links

• Film Credits
• Cyber Boxing Zone Article