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Boxing News Magazine 1971  Memorabilia

Boxing News Magazine 1971  History

 

DANIEL MENDOZA, known to his East End Jewish

supporters as The Light of Israel, was the first

Jewish fighter to become a champion.

 

Known as the Whitechapel Whirlwind, Yiddle Berg was the

idol of the East End, and during his campaign in the States,

he quickly won the admiration of American fight fans.

 

BRITISH featherweight champion Jimmy

Revie dumps Italian Tommaso Galli at

York Hall, Bethnal Green,

 

ARCARI STOPS JANA IN NINTH

 

WORLD middleweight champion Carlos Monzon of Argentina

will defend his title against former champ Emile Griffith

 

WHY BRITONS FAIL IN THE BIG EVENTS

 

Repton boys honoured

 

AN Irish selection lost by 8-2 here to an Italian team in

a second string match. The Irish boys boxed well and

pushed their opponents hard.

 

DANIEL MENDOZA, known to his East End Jewish
supporters as The Light of Israel, was the first
Jewish fighter to become a champion. He was
considered the British champion under London
Prize Ring rules when he defeated Bill Warr in
23 rounds in 1792 — a feat that he repeated two
years later when he stopped Warr in 5.

 

BRUNO ARCARI of Italy
kept his World Boxing
Council Junior welterweight
title by beating Argentinian
Enrique Jana, the bout
being stopped in the ninth
round by referee Georges
Gondre of France after
Jana had sustained
swellings by both eyes.
The fight set up something
of a record. It was the first
contest held in Italy for some
time where the spectators
didn't throw debris into the
ring.

 

IN DECEMBER, 1945, London promoter
Jack Solomons flew into snow-bound
New York City and got an even chillier
reception from Mike Jacobs, boss-man in
the American fight business. Solomons
had a war-weary public back home
clamouring for entertainment and he was
determined to give them the best
fighters in the game.