https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Harris_MartinHarris Martin - Revision history2026-08-03T19:08:42ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.38.2https://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Harris_Martin&diff=320709&oldid=prevJakewegner at 21:08, 31 October 20102010-10-31T21:08:04Z<p></p>
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</table>Jakewegnerhttps://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Harris_Martin&diff=298865&oldid=prevJakewegner at 13:53, 24 April 20102010-04-24T13:53:20Z<p></p>
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</table>Jakewegnerhttps://boxrec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Harris_Martin&diff=285572&oldid=prevJakewegner at 23:47, 20 December 20092009-12-20T23:47:36Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Martin, whose real name appears to be George Harris Martin according to most newspaper sources</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">went by the fighting name of </del>"The Black Pearl"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Most of his career fights have not been uncovered</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as most Minneapolis and Saint Paul newspapers all claim in his obituary that he had won more than 100 fights. After knocking out </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Black Frank</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in a fight </del>to the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">finish with 2 oz gloves </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Minneapolis in 1888, Martin tried claiming the Coloured Middleweight Championship of the World. Few fight reporters disagreed</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Frank </del>had <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">come into the fight, </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reported 30 pounds heavier than </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pearl, which upset him no small amount</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After delivering the final KO whallop in the 39th round, Martin was reported to have carried Frank like a baby in his arms through the ropes to a grassy knoll to help revive him.</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 1888</ins>, "The Black Pearl" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hired the former Coloured Lightweight Champion</ins>, [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">George Phillips (Lightweight)|George Phillips</ins>]] to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be his full-time trainer. The Pearl died on April 26, 1903, while crossing </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">street </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Saint Paul</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He </ins>had <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">suffered </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">heart attack and collapsed near </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">street curb</ins>. </div></td></tr>
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