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    exhibition in Chicago. Conn would never climb into a ring as a fighter again. Billy married Mary Louise Smith, also from Pittsburgh. Billy did not get along...
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    com: Billy Conn – Joe Louis Fight". Archived from the original on June 15, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2009. "The Boxer and the Blonde: Billy Conn won the...
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  • broke the record for oldest man to win a world title), Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Michael Moorer, Bob Foster, Ann Wolfe, Michael...
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  • Broadway Auditorium in Buffalo, New York, outpointing him, over ten rounds. Billy Conn was the National Boxing Association and New York State Athletic Commission's...
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    released in March 2022. Conn starred as Beelzebub in the second series of Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, and Indira Shetty (a stand-in for Billy Butcher in-adaptation...
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    Lake Highlands High School was the site of a fatal armed robbery when Billy Conn Gardner (1943-1995) entered the school's office, shot and fatally wounded...
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  • Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (d. 1959) 1917 – Billy Conn, American boxer (d. 1993) 1917 – Walter Lord, American historian and author...
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  • end to his quest for the title. Krieger had three important bouts with Billy Conn, who would take the Light Heavyweight Championship after their last bout...
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  • the names Conor and Connor). Billy Conn (1917–1993), American boxer Bobby Conn (born 1967), American musician Canary Conn (born 1949), American musician...
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  • 1940 –  Ceferino Garcia D 10 Henry Armstrong 1941 –  Joe Louis KO 13 Billy Conn I 1942 –  Willie Pep W 15 Chalky Wright I 1943 –  Beau Jack W 15 Bob Montgomery...
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  • Louis 1937: Henry Armstrong 1938: Joe Louis (2) 1939: Joe Louis (3) 1940: Billy Conn 1941: Joe Louis (4) 1942: Sugar Ray Robinson 1943: Fred Apostoli 1944:...
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  • popular boxers went overseas to fight for their countries, Joe Louis, Billy Conn, Beau Jack, and Bob Montgomery among them. Louis was used to entice Americans...
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    turned pro in 1934 and in 1939 took on World Light Heavyweight champion Billy Conn, but lost a decision. In 1941, he took on Anton Christoforidis, winning...
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    def. Tony Musto on April 8, 1941 def. Buddy Baer on May 23, 1941 def. Billy Conn on June 18, 1941 def. Lou Nova on September 29, 1941 def. Buddy Baer on...
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  • is a 1941 American sports film directed by Jack Townley and starring Billy Conn, Jean Parker and Dick Purcell. The film's sets were designed by the art...
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  • Conn may refer to: W. H. Conn, Irish cartoonist, illustrator and artist William Alexander Conn, American businessman, landowner and politician Billy Conn...
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    are: Laila Ali Muhammad Ali Dmitry Bivol Wilfred Benitez Ezzard Charles Billy Conn Vasiliy Lomachenko James J. Corbett Sunny Edwards Tyson Fury Naseem Hamed...
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  • NYSAC 1939-07-10 1942-06-20 Len Harvey EBU 1939-07-13 1940-06-05-Vacated Billy Conn NBA/NYSAC 1941-01-13 1941-05-22 Anton Christoforidis NBA 1941-05-22 1941-11-14...
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  • award are listed in a separate section. 1938 – Jack Dempsey** 1939 – Billy Conn 1940 – Henry Armstrong 1941 – Joe Louis 1942 – Barney Ross** 1943 – Boxers...
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    ahead of Tommy Loughran, Bob Foster, Harold Johnson, Maxie Rosenbloom and Billy Conn. Furthermore, Spinks did what no other light-heavyweight champion had...
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  • New York, New York. Retrieved October 22, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. "Billy Conn gives up his title today". The St. Louis Star and Times. St. Louis, Missouri...
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    Weston painted 57 covers for The Ring with his first cover, a painting of Billy Conn, for the December 1939 issue. Weston was also a photographer who, according...
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    Boxing Association champion Billy Conn on July 13. Later that same year, on September 25, he lost another unanimous decision to Conn at Pittsburgh's Forbes...
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  • has been unproduced and unpublished, in 1980. It follows the Joe Louis/Billy Conn fight in 1941 and the loss of values attendant on the Great Migration...
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  • stopped the fight 17 seconds after the knockdown. In a 1966 match, referee Billy Conn was accused of giving Carlos Ortíz a long count against Sugar Ramos, which...
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    Hurwitz. He promoted boxing cards that featured, among others, Joe Louis, Billy Conn, and Bob Foster. He was also part of the ownership group with George Preston...
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  • champ Gus Lesnevich (TKO 5), as well as Hall of Famers Mickey Walker, and Billy Conn. On February 22, 1938 he beat Fred Apostoli, winning the middleweight...
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    title, knocking out Tony Galento in round four, at New York. July 13 – Billy Conn defeats Melio Bettina by decision in fifteen rounds to win the vacant...
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  • Jimmy Young, Bobby Chacon, Mike Quarry, Emile Griffith, Willie Pep, and Billy Conn. Other cases of Boxers who have been speculated to have experienced CTE...
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  • the 12th round: June 18, 1941: Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn — In this heavyweight championship match, Conn, the light-heavyweight titleholder, challenged...
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