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Ike Weir

He was the greatest featherweight of his day. He went up and down the line and beat them all, irrespective of race or color. He could hit like a pile driver and was as clever as (Joe) Gans at blocking blows.

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Louie Burke

Louie and his father were doing an interview with ESPN before his fight with Freddie Roach in Las Vegas in 1983. The reporter asked Sammy Burke when he first knew his son would be a boxer.

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Larry Buck

Every boxer I’ve interviewed has his own story of how he got interested in boxing. Larry’s had to do with frozen ears. He grew up in Granger, Washington, a small farming community in the eastern part of the state, near the Oregon border.

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Book Review ‘Joe Gans

Finally! Someone has written a book about boxing’s first African American world champion, and a man that many boxing historians consider the greatest lightweight ever. Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott are to be commended for producing this long overdue biography of Joe Gans, a.k.a. “The Old Master”.

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Charley Rose

Ted Carroll wrote about Charley Rose in The Ring: March 1958 – A Perennial Rose; October 1961 – Fun and Frolic; December 1961 – The Strange World of Charley Rose; and, January 1962 –  The Strange World of Charley Rose.   September 1968 – Charley Rose’s All-Time Ratings March 1975 – Charley Rose Obituary  [Below are pdf

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