Johnny Dundee

IBHoF Bio

Name: Johnny Dundee
Alias: Scotch Wop
Birth Name: Giuseppe Curreri
Hometown: New York, New York, USA
Birthplace: Sciacca, Sicilia, Italy
Died: 1965-04-22 (Age:71)
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 164cm
Reach: 160cm
Referee: Record
Pro Boxer: Record

• Managers: Scotty Monteith (1910-1920); James J. Johnston (1920-1929)
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Johnny Dundee was the former World Featherweight and Junior Lightweight Champion. He had over 200 documented bouts. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

According to the 2003 book The Italian Stallions: Heroes of Boxing's Glory Days, Dundee was "the first of the great Italian-American fighters." He was followed by Tony Canzoneri, Primo Carnera, Willie Pep, Rocky Graziano, Rocky Marciano, Jake LaMotta, Carmen Basilio, and others.

Miscellaneous:

• Immigrated to the United States in 1898; naturalized in 1919.
• He and Joe Welling engaged in the first main event under the new 1920 Walker Law.
• Fought a 4-round exhibition with Eddie Wallace on 5 August 1918 in Brooklyn, NY.
• Dundee's record in 1910 is uncertain. His fights in that year have not been verified from contemporary sources.
• Around August 2, 1916, he was arrested and charged in New York with homicide, after a vehicle he was driving hit and killed a 13-year-old boy. The results of that prosecution are unknown at this time.
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