Boxing
Events
- Barbados Joe Walcott wins the World Welterweight Championship. He is ranked by Nat Fleischer and Charley Rose as the #1 All-Time Welterweight; other sports personalities such as Tad Dorgan, Tom O'Rourke, Dan Morgan and Jimmy Johnston call him "the greatest pound for pound fighter who ever lived".
- Young Corbett II wins the World Featherweight Championship, defeating "Terrible" Terry McGovern with a second round knockout
- The vacant World Bantamweight Championship is claimed first by Harry Harris, who fails to defend it and increases his weight, so making himself ineligible. The title is then awarded to Harry Forbes following his second round knockout of Danny Dougherty
Lineal world champions
- World Heavyweight Championship – James J. Jeffries
- World Middleweight Championship – Tommy Ryan
- World Welterweight Championship – William "Matty" Matthews → James "Rube" Ferns → Barbados Joe Walcott
- World Lightweight Championship – Frank Erne
- World Featherweight Championship – "Terrible" Terry McGovern → Young Corbett II
- World Bantamweight Championship – title vacant → Harry Harris → title vacant → Harry Forbes
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Famous quotes containing the word boxing:
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—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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