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First pro to knock JMM down. The same man is the second person to beat Junior Jones and is the quickest to finish him.

 

Darryl Pinckney

 

Yes, that was a very good hint. I wanted to see if anyone could figure it out.

What former heavyweight title challenger had a daughter drafted in the 1st round of the WNBA draft?

 

What former heavyweight title challenger had a daughter drafted in the 1st round of the WNBA draft?

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TOM KENNEDY

...who actually went the distance with Battling Levinsky amongst others.

 

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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 awhile in 1929. Kennedy died of bone cancer Oct. 6, 1965, in Woodland Hills, California, USA.


What former heavyweight title challenger had a daughter drafted in the 1st round of the WNBA draft?

 

What former heavyweight title challenger had a daughter drafted in the 1st round of the WNBA draft?

Here's another one:

What was the 1st world title fight tracked by compubox?

 

Which fighters were involved in ring fatalities, both being responsible for the death of a fighter then becoming a victim themselves?

 

Two bare-knuckle pugilists and four professional boxers were involved in two fatal fights, once as survivor and once as deceased. These were pugilists Simon Byrne and Richard Dodd, and professional boxers Sam Baroudi, Jack Burns, Bert McCarthy, and Gino Perez. (Pugilist William Phelps, aka Brighton Bill, also may be on this list, but for now, only his death is documented.)

Simon Byrne killed Alexander “Sandy” McKay and was killed by James Burke (Deaf’Un) on May 30, 1833.

Richard Dodd: London Times, September 1, 1831. Dodd was charged with manslaughter, but released; he died in a separate fight with James Hargrave in December 1831.
R. v. Hargrave, 1831, 5 C&P 170, King's Bench, "Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius..." (London: W. McDowall, 1833), 170-171; see also Charles F. Williams and David S. Garland, American and English Encyclopaedia of Law, Vol. 28 (Northport, New York: Edward Thompson Co., 1895), 203. The fight started at Islington (then part of Middlesex), but the police interfered. The fighters then moved to the Isle of Dogs (Kent), where they resumed the mill. Dodd lost, and and he died soon after in hospital. The court's ruling was that if the fatal blow occurred in one county, but death occurred in another, then the county in which the blow was struck had jurisdiction. Hargrave was convicted, and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation.

Jack Burns: Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern, May 26, 1891; Chicago Daily Tribune, May 27, 1891; Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News, May 27, 1891; Decatur (Illinois) Daily Republican, October 19, 1891. This was the same Jack Burns as was involved in the fatal fight with McGlone, of Natick (Middletown, New York, Daily Press, May 27, 1891). During this fight, Burns was hit hard in the temple and jaw. He went down. As he rose, Tracy hit him again, with what the Chicago Daily Tribune called “a sledgehammer blow on the head that would have felled an ox.” This time, Burns stayed down. Cause of death was a broken blood vessel in the brain. On October 19, 1891, Tracy was convicted of manslaughter.

Bert McCarthy killed Dencio Cabanela on July 2, 1921 and was killed by Alby Roberts on July 4, 1931.

Sam Baroudi killed Glenn Smith on August 15, 1947 and was killed by Ezzard Charles on February 20, 1948.

Isidro “Gino” Perez killed Fred Bowman on February 28, 1981 and was killed by Juan Ramon Cruz on October 6, 1983.

 

Very well done. I know of another one too.

 

I just noticed your edited response. Yes, Brighton Bill is the other one as far as my source tells me.

 

Yes, I up-dated it again.

 

Brighton Bill > George Daniels. Can you check that one?

 

Here's another: which judge(s) once scored all 15 rounds even in a world title fight?

 

You might be talking about Angelo Poletti in Duran-Leonard I (Angelo Poletti 148-147, that's 10 even rounds.)