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Watkins, owner of United Boxing Club, will honor Scott on Saturday at The Brawl II in Canton for his work in boxing in Stark County. Tickets cost $20 for general admission and $50 for ringside.
Ward won the International Boxing Association heavyweight title and fought bouts at the Canton Memorial Civic Center in 2002 and 2003 on the way to an 18-0 record before losing in 2004 against Ann ...
After one more win, Ward challenged for the IBA's world's heavyweight title on August 16, 2002. Ward became the champion, but saw her knockout win streak gone as Monica McGowan lasted ten rounds at Canton, Ohio. Ward defended her title successfully with an eighth-round knockout of Kathy Rivers on December 6 at the Gund Arena in Cleveland.
In 1978 he took on WBC and WBA middleweight title holder Hugo Pastor Corro for the then undisputed world Middleweight title, but lost a decision. A notably win in his career was when Harris defeated future middleweight world champion Alan Minter. He retired in 1982. He opened his own boxing school in 1981 in New York City on West 32nd street.
The first of the current organizations to award a world title was the World Boxing Association (WBA), then known as the National Boxing Association (NBA), when it sanctioned its first title fight in 1921 between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier for the world heavyweight championship.
Theodore "Tiger" Flowers (February 14, 1895 – November 16, 1927) was an American professional boxer.Nicknamed "The Georgia Deacon", he rose to prominence in the early 20th century, becoming the first African-American World Middleweight Boxing Champion after defeating Harry Greb to claim the title in 1926.