Boxing
Events
- Ted "Kid" Lewis regains the World Welterweight Championship and holds it until 1919.
- Al McCoy loses the World Middleweight Championship title to Mike O'Dowd, who knocks him out in the 6th round at Brooklyn
- Benny Leonard, widely regarded as the greatest-ever lightweight, defeats Freddie Welsh at New York to win the World Lightweight Championship, which he holds until he retires in 1925
- Another great champion, Pete Herman defeats Kid Williams over 20 rounds at New Orleans to take the World Bantamweight Championship, which he holds until 1920
Lineal world champions
- World Heavyweight Championship – Jess Willard
- World Light Heavyweight Championship – Battling Levinsky
- World Middleweight Championship – Al McCoy → Mike O'Dowd
- World Welterweight Championship – Jack Britton → Ted "Kid" Lewis
- World Lightweight Championship – Freddie Welsh → Benny Leonard
- World Featherweight Championship – Johnny Kilbane
- World Bantamweight Championship – Kid Williams → Pete Herman
- World Flyweight Championship – Jimmy Wilde
Read more about this topic: 1917 In Sports
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)