biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1925–66)
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| biography:
| Middleweight boxer, born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, C England, UK, a member of a well-known boxing family. British middleweight champion (1950–4) and European champion (1951–4), he defeated Sugar Ray Robinson in the summer of 1951, and for a few months was world champion, before losing the title to Robinson in New York City in the autumn of that year. |
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