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Pages in category "Boxers from Brooklyn" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Sadam Ali; B.
Graziano was the son of Ida Scinto and Nicola Barbella. The elder Barbella, nicknamed Fighting Nick Bob, was a boxer with a brief fighting record. Born in Brooklyn, New York City, Rocky later moved to an Italian enclave centered on East 10th Street, between First Avenue and Avenue A in Manhattan's East Village. He grew up as a street fighter ...
Boxers from Brooklyn (57 P) Pages in category "Boxers from New York City" The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total.
Lou DiBella – boxing promoter and television/film producer. Sally Maria Diggs (died 1928) – enslaved African-American girl whose freedom was famously bought by Henry Ward Beecher; Mary E. Dillon (1886–1983) – engineer and president of Brooklyn Borough Gas Company; Jessica Dimmock (born 1978) – documentary photojournalist
It includes boxers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories such as American male boxers or American women boxers. This is a diffusing subcategory of Category:Sportspeople from New York (state) .
Berlanga was born to the large Nuyorican community of Brooklyn, to parents from Puerto Rico. [5] He started boxing at the age of 7, As a child, he was a fan of Félix Trinidad, a former world champion who frequently fought at Madison Square Garden. [5] When queried about his heritage, Berlanga responded “I feel a hundred percent Puerto Rican
Of course, famous Black American boxers aren’t just in the heavyweight class. Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, Terence Crawford stands alone in being undisputed in two different weight classes. One ...
Breland was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began fighting when he was 7 years old, taking on challengers in the lobby and hallways of the housing project where he lived. At 9 years old, he earned a spot on Muhammad Ali's youth boxing camp at his Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, training camp. At 13 he entered the gym and embraced boxing as a way of ...