Boxing
Events
- 23 September — Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey over 10 rounds in Philadelphia to win the World Heavyweight Championship
- Tiger Flowers twice defeats Harry Greb for the World Middleweight Championship but then loses it to former World Welterweight Champion Mickey Walker who holds it until 1931
Lineal world champions
- World Heavyweight Championship – Jack Dempsey → Gene Tunney
- World Light Heavyweight Championship – Paul Berlenbach → Jack Delaney
- World Middleweight Championship – Harry Greb → Tiger Flowers → Mickey Walker
- World Welterweight Championship – Mickey Walker → Pete Latzo
- World Lightweight Championship – Rocky Kansas → Sammy Mandell
- World Featherweight Championship – Louis "Kid" Kaplan → vacant
- World Bantamweight Championship – Charley Phil Rosenberg
- World Flyweight Championship – vacant
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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.”
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