Boxing
Events
- In one of the most famous fights in boxing history, Gene Tunney successfully defends his World Heavyweight Championship in a return bout with Jack Dempsey at Soldier Field, Chicago. Tunney wins in 10 rounds but the fight is remembered as The Battle Of The Long Count after Tunney was knocked down for 13 seconds in the 7th round, the count being delayed because Dempsey did not retire to a neutral corner.
Lineal world champions
- World Heavyweight Championship – Gene Tunney
- World Light Heavyweight Championship – Jack Delaney → vacant → Tommy Loughran
- World Middleweight Championship – Mickey Walker
- World Welterweight Championship – Pete Latzo → Joe Dundee
- World Lightweight Championship – Sammy Mandell
- World Featherweight Championship – vacant
- World Bantamweight Championship – Charley Phil Rosenberg → vacant
- 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.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)