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Peter Rademacher (water Polo Player)
Thomas Peter Rademacher (November 20, 1928 – June 4, 2020) was an American heavyweight boxer. As an Amateur boxing, amateur, he was a gold medalist at the Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics, 1956 Olympics. Rademacher became the only person to challenge for the List of heavyweight boxing champions, world heavyweight championship in his first professional bout when he faced Floyd Patterson in Seattle on August 22, 1957. He compiled a 15-7-1 record over 23 professional bouts. A former college football player at Washington State Cougars football, Washington State, Rademacher took up boxing as a form of rehabilitation during his recovery from rheumatic fever, which he contracted in military school. Amateur career In his amateur career, Rademacher won 72 bouts and lost 7. He won a series of tournaments, including the 1949 and 1951–1953 Seattle Golden Gloves (he lost in 1950 to Zora Folley, who was his frequent opponent throughout his boxing career), and the National Amateur H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavyweight
Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling. Boxing Professional Male boxers who weigh over are considered heavyweights by 2 of the 4 major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation and the World Boxing Organization. In 2020, the World Boxing Council increased their heavyweight classification to 224 pounds (102 kg; 16 st) to allow for their creation of the bridgerweight division. The World Boxing Association (WBA) did the same in 2023. Female boxers who weigh over are considered heavyweights by 2 of the 4 major boxing organizations: the IBF and the WBC. The WBA and WBO do not have a female heavyweight world title. Historical development Because this division has no upper weight limit, it has historically been vaguely defined. In the 19th century, for example, many List of heavyweight boxing champions, heavyweight champions weighed or less (although others weighed 200 pounds). In 1920, the light heavyweight divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primo Carnera
Primo Carnera (; 26 October 1906 – 29 June 1967) was an Italian professional boxer and wrestler who achieved international fame during the 1930s. He reigned as the boxing World Heavyweight Champion from 29 June 1933 to 14 June 1934. He won more fights by knockout than any other heavyweight champion (IBU, NBA, NYSAC) in boxing history. Carnera's boxing record comprised 103 professional fights, with 89 victories, 72 of which were knockouts. His extraordinary physical stature, standing 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) and weighing up to 270 lb (122 kg), made him a formidable and iconic figure in the sport, earning him the moniker "The Ambling Alp." Beyond boxing, Carnera also pursued a career in professional wrestling, further extending his public presence. His life story has been the subject of numerous films and books. Personal life Primo Carnera was born in Sequals, then in the Province of Udine, now in the Province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia at the north-easternmost corner o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Loughran
Thomas Patrick Loughran (November 29, 1902 – July 7, 1982) was an American professional boxer and the former World Light Heavyweight Champion. Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Loughran as the #7 ranked light heavyweight of all time, while ''The Ring Magazine'' founder Nat Fleischer placed him at #4.Cyber Boxing Encyclopedia - Tommy Loughran CyberBoxingZone.com Retrieved on 2014-04-30All-Time Light Heavyweight Rankings BoxRec.com. Retrieved on 2014-04-11. The [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sick's Stadium
Sick's Stadium, also known as Sick's Seattle Stadium and later as Sicks' Stadium, was a baseball Baseball park, park in the Pacific Northwest, northwest United States in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington. It was located in Rainier Valley, Seattle, Rainier Valley, on the NE corner of S. McClellan Street and Rainier Avenue S (currently the site of a Lowe's hardware store). The longtime home of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League (PCL), it hosted the 1969 Major League Baseball expansion, expansion Seattle Pilots during their only Major League Baseball, major league season in 1969 Seattle Pilots season, 1969. The site was previously the location of Dugdale Field, a 1913 ballpark that was the home of the Rainiers' forerunners, the Seattle Rainiers, Seattle Indians. That park burned down in an Independence Day arson fire in 1932, caused by serial arsonist Robert Driscoll. Authorities would later claim that Driscoll was one of the most dangerous arsonists in the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Rademacher And Zora Folley 1958
Pete or Petes or ''variation'', may refer to: People * Pete (given name) * Pete (nickname) * Pete (surname) Fictional characters * Pete (Disney), a cartoon character in the ''Mickey Mouse'' universe * Pete the Pup (a.k.a. 'Petey'), a character (played by several dogs) in Hal Roach's ''Our Gang'' comedies Places * Pete, Zanzibar, a village in Tanzania * Pete, the Hungarian name for Petea village, Dorolț Commune, Satu Mare County, Romania * Petes, Gotland, Visby, Gotland, Sweden * Petes Hill, a summit in the Adirondack Mountains, New York State, USA * Petes Creek, a tributary of the Sacandaga River, located in New York State, USA Sports and athletics * The Pete, Petersen Events Center, athletics complex and basketball arena on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh * Pete the Penguin, one of the two mascots of Youngstown State University * Purdue Pete, bookstore logo turned unofficial mascot of Purdue University * A member of the Peterborough Petes junior ice hockey team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington State University
Washington State University (WSU, or colloquially Wazzu) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Pullman, Washington, United States. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest Land-grant university, land-grant universities in the Western United States, American West. With an undergraduate enrollment of 24,278 and a total enrollment of 28,581, it is the second largest institution of higher education in Washington state behind the University of Washington. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The WSU Pullman campus stands on a hill and is characterized by open spaces and a red brick and basalt material palette—materials originally found on site. The university sits within the rolling topography of the Palouse in rural eastern Washington and remains closely connected to the town and the region. The university also operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at each end. The offense (sports), offense, the team with possession of the oval-shaped Ball (gridiron football), football, attempts to advance down the field by Rush (gridiron football), running with the ball or Forward pass#Gridiron football, throwing it, while the Defense (sports), defense, the team without possession of the ball, aims to stop the offense's advance and to take control of the ball for themselves. The offense must advance the ball at least ten yard, yards in four Down (gridiron football), downs or plays; if they fail, they turnover on downs, turn over the football to the defense, but if they succeed, they are given a new set of four downs to continue the Glossary of American football#drive, drive. Points are scored primarily b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lev Mukhin
Lev Dmitrievich Mukhin (; 15 October 1936 – 25 April 1977) was a Soviet heavyweight boxer. He won a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, losing the final to Pete Rademacher, who scored three knockdowns before the bout was stopped. Coming into the final Mukhin had knocked out all his opponents, despite two of them knocking him down in the first round. Mukhin took up boxing in 1951, and in 1955 won the Soviet title, finishing second at the Soviet championships. He placed second again in 1956 and never competed internationally except for the 1956 Olympics. 1956 Olympic results Below is the record of Lev Mukhin, a heavyweight boxer from the Soviet union who competed at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics: * Round of 16: defeated Bozhil Lozanov (Bulgaria) by a third-round knockout * Quarterfinal: defeated Törner Åhsman (Sweden) by a first-round knockout * Semifinal: defeated Giacomo Bozzano (Italy) by a third-round knockout * Final: lost to Pete Rademacher (United States) by a firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daan Bekker
Daniel "Daan" Wepener Bekker (9 February 1932 – 22 October 2009) was a South African boxer, who won the bronze medal in the Heavyweight division (+ 91 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Four years later in Rome he captured the silver medal in the same category. Amateur career Bekker was the South African Heavyweight Champion from 1955–1959 and 1961. Amateur results *1956 won the Heavyweight bronze medal at the Melbourne Olympics. **Defeated José Giorgetti (Argentina) KO-1 **Lost to Pete Rademacher (USA) KO-3 *1958 won the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, Wales. **Defeated S. Renaud (Canada) TKO-1 **Defeated Gbadegesin Salawu (Nigeria) TKO-2 **Defeated David Thomas (England) PTS *1960 won the Heavyweight silver medal at the Rome Olympics. **Defeated Władysław Jędrzejewski (Poland) TKO-1 **Defeated Obrad Sretenovic (Yugoslavia) KO-1 **Defeated Günter Siegmund (United Team of Germany) PTS (4-1) **Lost to Franco De Piccoli (Italy) KO-2 Death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Němec
Josef Němec (25 September 1933 – 10 September 2013) was a boxer from Czechoslovakia. Born in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia, he competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia, going out in the quarter-finals of the heavyweight event. He returned to the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy, again as a heavyweight boxer where he went one better, going out in the semi-final to finish in third place. In Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ... 1963 he became European champion. Němec died in České Budějovice on 10 September 2013, aged 79. References External links Sports-reference* 1933 births 2013 deaths Heavyweight boxers Czechoslovak male boxers Olympic boxers for Czechoslovakia Olympic bronze medalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Summer Olympics
The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XVI Olympiad and officially branded as Melbourne 1956, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the Equestrian at the 1956 Summer Olympics, equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 1956. These Games were the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania, as well as the first to be held outside Europe and North America. Melbourne is the most southerly city ever to host the Olympics. Due to the Southern Hemisphere's seasons being different from those in the Northern Hemisphere, the 1956 Games did not take place at the usual time of year, because of the need to hold the events during the warmer weather of the host's spring/summer (which corresponds to the Northern Hemisphere's autumn/winter), resulting in the only summer games ever to be held in November and December. Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
