Sunday, February 2, 2014

Vintage Photos: Boxing (35 Photos)


"Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring."

Sugar Ray Leonard

"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book."

Joe Frazier Read 

IronGangsta.com presents a collection of 35 vintages boxing photos. Enjoy.


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Thomas Patrick Loughran (November 29, 1902 – July 7, 1982) was an American professional boxer and the former light heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
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Carmine Basilio (April 2, 1927 – November 7, 2012) better known in the boxing world as Carmen Basilio, was an American professional boxer who had been a two weight class world boxing champion. Some reports have suggested that Basilio
changed his name from Carmine to Carmen before he began boxing, to sound more masculine. {Wiki}

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Image via: http://www.championsofthering.com/  Gerardo González (January 6, 1926 – February 13, 2003), better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former world welterweight champion from Camagüey, Cuba.
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1910 Stanley Ketchel, Vintage Boxing photo by DANA San Francisco
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Emile Alphonse Griffith (February 3, 1938 – July 23, 2013) was a professional boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands who became a world champion in the welterweight and middleweight classes.
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Muhammad Ali vs Jimmy Young {1976}
Sammy Davis Junior
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World heavyweight champion Gene Tunney
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Muhammad Ali in a boxing stance underwater while training in Miami, photographed by Flip Schulke
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Joe Louis Vs Rocky Marciano
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