Boxing
Lineal world champions
- World Heavyweight Championship – Bob Fitzsimmons
- World Middleweight Championship – vacant → Tommy Ryan
- World Welterweight Championship – Tommy Ryan → Ryan vacates title → "Mysterious" Billy Smith
- World Lightweight Championship – George "Kid" Lavigne
- World Featherweight Championship – Solly Smith → Dave Sullivan → George Dixon
- World Bantamweight Championship – Jimmy Barry
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Famous quotes containing the word boxing:
“... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
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