Boxing
Events
- 4 July — Jack Dempsey becomes World Heavyweight Champion by knocking out Jess Willard, the defending champion, in four rounds. Dempsey becomes one of the greatest-ever boxing champions, his charisma and punching power enabling promoters to stage the first "million dollar gates".
- Jack Britton regains the World Welterweight Championship from Ted "Kid" Lewis for the second time, this time retaining it until his defeat by Mickey Walker in 1922.
Lineal world champions
- World Heavyweight Championship – Jess Willard → Jack Dempsey
- World Light Heavyweight Championship – Battling Levinsky
- World Middleweight Championship – Mike O'Dowd
- World Welterweight Championship – Ted "Kid" Lewis → Jack Britton
- World Lightweight Championship – Benny Leonard
- World Featherweight Championship – Johnny Kilbane
- World Bantamweight Championship – Pete Herman
- World Flyweight Championship – Jimmy Wilde
Read more about this topic: 1919 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the word boxing:
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—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.”
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