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WON FROM CHAMPIONSBUT FAILED OF THE TITLENot every boxer wlio has beaten a champion has been credited with the title* and many a pugilist who never had any calim to a championship has gayly paraded as the titular head of a class.1b the featherweight division three mea who won the title beyond all dbttbt never were credited with the championship. They ore Solly Smith, D*ve Sullivan and Brooklyn Tommy SaUlvan. Smith got a referee’s decision over George Dixon, at weight, in San Francisco, in 1897, and was the champion of the class until the following year, when he met Dave Silllvan at Coney Island. Smith suffered a broken arm in the fifth round, Ira* compelled to stop and Sullivan became the champion. jThree months later Dixon took on Dave at the Lenox A. C. in New York,' and beat him decisively, the negro tints regaining the title, which he held until he was knocked out by Terry.McGovern.After Young Corbett retired from ; the featherweight division in 1904 and threw his hat into the lightweight ring, Attell claimed +hc-featherweighthonors.' Among • mwho disputed jthe claim was BroWlyn Tommy Sul-1*livan, who proceeded to put A bey to! sleep In 5 rounds, winning the title.!In 1908 Abe knocked out Sullivan ; in four rounds, regaining the honors, jThrough the refusal of the authori-. tion to recognize Solly Smith as the; American title holder he lost a : chance to fight Ben Jordan for the world’s featherweight title. Dixon . was put forward for a match with Jordan and was beaten by lho Kng-. Jisbman. This bout took place be-: tween the time Dixon lost his Aineri-. can title to Smith and the bout in which he regained it from Sullivan, jAlthough Jordan went Heine eon-; viaced that he bad won the world’s j title* he was mistaken, for Dixon was not the American champion at the time the bout look place. iThe following tabic shows the; number of years American chain-! pions in their various classes held their titles:
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Kane Republican
Kane, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Dec 14, 1912
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