BILLY JOINER MAY 6, 1938 – JUNE 8, 2019 by Steve Canton Former amateur standout and pro heavyweight contender Billy Joiner passed away on June 8, 2019. The slick boxer from Cincinnati who faced a who’s who of big names in the 1960s and 1970s was 81 years old. One of the last remaining fighters […]
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Former 1950s and 1960s middleweight contender Ellsworth (Spider) Webb passed away in Tulsa, Oklahoma on November 23, 2017 at the age of 86. Between November 1956 and February 1961 he was ranked as high as # 2 in the world by The Ring magazine. Webb was unsuccessful in his only bid for a world title
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HERBERT WEISSBLUM – Of Whidbey Island, Washington, formerly of Winchester, Massachusetts died unexpectedly on December 26, 2017 at the age of 89. Herb, a resident of Whidbey Island (WA), was originally from Boston, where for 35 years he practiced law primarily as a business litigator after obtaining his B.A. from Michigan State University and an
Baltimore heavyweight boxer “The American Dream” Mike Dietrich died suddenly Tuesday, March 2 in Baltimore, MD. Dietrich was 26 years old.
Former flyweight world champion and Mexican ring legend Efrén “Alacran” Torres passed away at the age 66 on February 25, 2010.
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IBRO Charter Member Laurence Franklin Fielding, 84, of Falmouth, Virginia passed away on Wednesday, April 22, 2009.
It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that Paul Zabala passed away August 21, 2008.
