More boxing cigarette cards from the NYPL Digital Collection.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Boxing Personalities
More boxing cigarette cards from the NYPL Digital Collection.
Boxers of the Early Twentieth Century
More cigarette cards from the NYPL Digital Collection.
Boxers circa 1903-1917
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano (September 1, 1923 – August 31, 1969), was the heavyweight champion of the world from 1952 to 1956. Marciano, with forty-three knockouts to his credit, remains the only heavyweight champion in boxing history to retire having won every fight in his professional career.
Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 - April 12, 1981), was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949.
Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Louis' championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which he participated in 27 championship fights, including 25 successful title defenses – all records for the heavyweight division. In 2005, Louis was named the greatest heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization, and was ranked number one on Ring Magazine's list of 100 Greatest Punchers of All Time and is widely regarded to be the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
Louis' cultural impact was felt well outside the ring. Louis is widely regarded as the first African American to achieve the status of a nationwide hero within the United States, and was also a focal point of anti-Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II.[4] He also was instrumental in integrating the game of golf, breaking the sport's color barrier in America by appearing under a sponsor's exemption in a PGA event in 1952.
Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán ,born June 16, 1951Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. During his career he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra", "Hands of Stone".
He held world titles at four different weights - lightweight (1972-79), welterweight (1980), junior middleweight (1983-84) and middleweight (1989). He was the second boxer to have fought in five different decades. Saoul Mamby, whom Durán defeated in 1976, was the first boxer in history to compete in five decades. Two weeks later, Duran accomplished the same feat, becoming the second fighter to do so.
professional record of 119 fights, 103 wins with 70 KOs.
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