Humbert J. Fugazy (January 28, 1885 – April 7, 1964
) was a
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
boxing
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...
promoter around the 1930s. The
Fugazy Bowl is named after him in his honour. He was also the owner of the
Brooklyn Horsemen
The Brooklyn Lions were a National Football League team that played in the 1926 NFL season. The team was formed as the league's counter-move to the first American Football League, which enfranchised a team called the Brooklyn Horsemen, a professi ...
of the
first American Football League in 1926. His father was
Luigi Fugazy
Luigi V. Fugazzi (April 30, 1839 – August 6, 1930; anglicized as Fugazy), nicknamed Papa Fugazy, was an Italian American banker, businessman, and philanthropist who became one of the most prominent in the United States. He emigrated to the ...
.
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Humbert J. Fugazy
1885 births
1964 deaths
American boxing promoters
American male boxers
Businesspeople from New York City
20th-century American businesspeople
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