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Tiger Flowers 1st Negro middleweight champ...
Tiger Flowers 1st Negro middleweight champ...
Item # 723972
February 27, 1926
FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass., February 27, 1926
* Tiger Flowers vs. Harry Greb
* 1st African-American middleweight champ
* Boxing - boxers - "The Georgia Deacon"
The sport's section (page 8) has a two column heading: "Tiger Flowers, Victim of Many Knockouts, Becomes a Champion". (see images)
Complete with 12 pages, light toning and very minor wear at the margins, generally nice.
background: Tiger Flowers won the world middleweight boxing championship on February 26, 1926, when he defeated the legendary Harry Greb by a hard-fought 15-round decision at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Flowers, a tough and intelligent fighter from Georgia, used disciplined defense and steady counterpunching to blunt Greb’s relentless, swarming style, earning the nod from the judges after a grueling bout. With the victory, Flowers became the first African American to hold the world middleweight title, a landmark achievement in boxing history during an era of deep racial barriers. He later defended the title successfully before losing it to Mickey Walker in 1927.
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