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Dave (Golden Boy) Andrews

By Dan Cuoco Dave Andrews was born in Cambridge, MA on December 21, 1920. He lived in Cambridge for three years before his family moved to Billerica, MA. The Andrews lived in Billerica for ten years before moving to Lowell, MA where he first became involved in boxing and eventually entered into amateur competition in […]

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Yama Bahama

Yama Bahama was born William Horatio Butler, Jr. on February 16, 1933 in Bimini in the Bahamas. He was the youngest in a large family consisting of three sisters and four brothers. His father was a first mate on a cargo ship that operated between Bimini and Miami Beach.

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Freddie Steele

Freddie Steele was a boxing prodigy. As early as age six he dreamed of a career as a boxer. His parents hoped he would outgrow the idea. But he didn’t. Every day after school his friends would find him in his backyard, imitating the style of his idol Tod Morgan.

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Dick DiVeronica

Dick DiVeronica was born on January 26, 1938 in Kirkville, New York. He was a popular fighter who campaigned from 1958 until 1972, starting as a lightweight and ending his career as a middleweight.

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Ellsworth (Spider) Webb

Its amazing to me that over the years one of the best middleweights of the fifties has gone unnoticed among veteran fight aficionados. As a young boy, on November 19, 1958, I witnessed Ellsworth (Spider) Webb’s complete domination of future hall-of-famer Joey Giardello on national TV. In all the years I witnessed Giardello in action on television and in person I have never seen any other opponent dominate him like Webb did that night. Spider was the quintessential boxer-puncher who engaged in many exciting fights in his forty fight professional career.

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Henry Hank

Henry was born Joseph Harrison in Greenville, Mississippi on February 9, 1935. He moved to Detroit with his parents when he was 6 years old. He later changed his name to Jusuf Salaam when he embraced Islam in 1971, near the close of his professional career. Young 18-year-old Harrison took the name Henry Hank out of admiration for triple crown hall-of-famer Henry Armstrong.

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Eder Jofre

Eder Jofre – The Second Best Pound-for-Pound Fighter in Boxing History By Dan Cuoco Sugar Ray Robinson is generally considered by most boxing experts as the best pound-for-pound fighter of all time. I agree wholeheartedly!  But who is number two? I’d like to make a case for former bantamweight and featherweight champion Eder Jofre of

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