1) In 1903, who was the first recognized Light-Heavyweight (175 lb.) champion ?
answer is – Jack Root
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Gene Fullmer and David Martinez
By David Martinez / Boxing Historian

As you have seen on my website, we feature articles by Jim Amato. Jim is a friend and an outstanding boxing writer and I am simply blessed to have him as a part of dmboxing.

With that being said, I am going to treat my fan base on this website with a series of articles written by Jim that are called “Dream Fights”, highlighting many of the great boxers we have known in the sport.

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Last month marked the two year anniversary of this website, so I reduced the price of my website t-shirt from $15.00 to a special 40% discount price of $9.00 each and with FREE shipping to any where in the USA.
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For those of you that are one the west coast – next month – on Saturday, September 26, 2009 will be the next boxing venue of interest in the southern California area, which is, the annual California Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremonies 2009.
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Jimmy Ellis and David Martinez
By Jim Amato

Author’s note; Upon hearing of Jimmy’s next great battle against Pugilistic Dementia, I would like to re-release this article about him from 2004.

It’s too bad that the cruiserweight division was not around in the 60’s and 70’s. Many fine boxers scaled under 190 pounds and gave creditable performances against bigger men. Doug Jones is an example as he came close to upsetting Cassius Clay in 1963. Doug had lost in 1962 to Harold Johnson for the light heavyweight title. In 1965, he lost to Ernie Terrell for WBA Heavyweight crown. Back then there was no middle ground. If you weighed over 175 pounds, you fought heavyweights, period.
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Rusty Rubin is the managing editor of Ringsports.com

The solemn parade continues; it seems that the bad news of boxing people who have passed on continues. We are continuing to see our ranks grow slimmer as the summer gets hotter. Among those lost this month was a 40 year old son of boxing historian Tracy Callis.

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By David Martinez / Boxing Historian

I would like to welcome Henry Calles of Duke’s Boxing to my website as a link blogroll where you can now directly link onto that website.

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By David Martinez / Boxing Historian

Recently I was a guest on the Santa Barbara (California) News Press radio station, KZSB 1290AM, on the morning talk show with host Baron Ron Herron.

Baron asked me over a month prior to come on and said “let’s talk boxing.” So, I said “yes” and brought my boxing world into the studio for a very delightful 55 minutes of live talk radio, with an icon that has entertained via the radio waves since the early sixties.
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1) In 1903, who was the first recognized Light-Heavyweight (175 lb.) champion ?
a) Bob Fitzsimmons
b) Jack Root
c) Jack O’Brien
d) George Gardner
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