David "Bomber" Pearce (8 May 1959 – 20 May 2000) was a Welsh heavyweight boxing champion. Also known as the Welsh Rocky, Pearce held both the Welsh and...
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David Pearce (boxer) (1959–2000), Welsh former British heavyweight boxing champion David Pearce (politician) (born 1960), Missouri politician David D...
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Currie and David Jaco. Mason sparred with the former WBA World cruiserweight number one and British heavyweight champion David Pearce. Pearce helped him...
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of Henry. He was reckoned a fast, skillful boxer who hit hard with both fists. On 6 December 1805, Pearce defeated Jem Belcher in a Championship decider...
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bodyguard to Alex Steene and sparred the future champion David Pearce. Paul Sykes said; David "Bomber" Pearce was the toughest and most ferocious fighter he faced...
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Bartley Gorman (category English male boxers)
beaten senseless." Bartley Gorman and David Pearce signed to fight for the World unlicensed title after Pearce KO'd former WBA World Heavyweight Champion...
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rugby player, 90 12 April – Ronald Lockley, naturalist, 96 20 May – David Pearce, boxer, 41 28 May – Donald Davies, computer scientist and inventor, 75 30...
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Leon Spinks (category African-American boxers)
New York Times. Retrieved February 7, 2021. "David Pearce: Statue of 'Newport's Rocky' to inspire boxers". BBC News. June 9, 2018. Retrieved February...
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David Griffiths (26 November 1963 – 2 March 2007) was a British boxer. He competed in the men's light welterweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics,...
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The film stars David Keith, Robert Prosky, Judge Reinhold, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Michael Biehn, Andrew Povey and Olympic boxer Mark Breland. The...
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Bare-knuckle boxing (redirect from Bare-knuckle boxer)
Hen Pearce 1805-1807 John Gully 1807-1808 Tom Cribb 1808-1822 Tom Spring 1823-1824 Tom Cannon 1824-1825 Jem Ward 1825-1827 Peter Crawley (boxer) 1827...
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John Tate (January 29, 1955 – April 9, 1998) was an American professional boxer, and held the WBA heavyweight championship from 1979 to 1980. As an amateur...
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Marvin Camel (category Native American boxers)
losing the title in his first defense, to Carlos De León who replaced David Pearce. After losing in a rematch to De Leon, he became, in 1983, the IBF's...
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boxing hour show - Colin Jones was voted the best Welsh boxer not to win a world title and David Pearce was voted the unluckiest fighter never to win a world...
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(bantamweight boxer) Darren Morgan (snooker player) Jon Mould (racing cyclist) Andrew Pagett (snooker player) David 'Bomber' Pearce (heavyweight boxer) Reginald...
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Johnny Fisher (category English male boxers)
also known by his nickname The Romford Bull, is a British professional boxer from Romford, London Borough of Havering, England. He played rugby for a...
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Gordon Ferris (category Male boxers from Northern Ireland)
shot at the title but was beaten in a final eliminator in June 1982 by David Pearce, after which he retired from boxing. He subsequently ran pubs in Gloucester...
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Bernard Benton (category American male boxers)
was due to defend against David Pearce who had knocked him out in a previous amateur bout. Benton declined to fight Pearce and subsequently lost the belt...
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S. T. Gordon (category Cruiserweight boxers)
champion refused to defend the belt against the number one contender David Pearce in his first defence in the United States, and could not defend his belt...
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Carlos De León (category Cruiserweight boxers)
world champion Marvin Camel on November 25, 1980, replacing David Pearce the Great Britain boxer on the undercard of Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Durán's...
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added after Lennard Pearce, who played Grandad, died in December 1984. Nine months earlier in March 1984, Merryfield and Pearce had costarred in two...
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university. Chanel Cresswell as Tamasina "Tammy" Lady Horniman, Freddy's wife. Pearce Quigley as John "The Gospel" Dixon, the head of the Scouse crime family...
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the former champion and 'unlucky' fighter David Pearce and his remarkable short successful boxing career. Pearce was rated number one by the WBC. Reg became...
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James Belcher (category English male boxers)
where he put on sparring exhibitions and met and inspired Henry Pearce, a young boxer whose manager he became. It became apparent that he would be Belcher's...
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Lenny McLean (category English male boxers)
with professional boxer David "Bomber" Pearce, the hard-hitting British heavyweight champion from Newport. McLean declined to fight Pearce, he later commented...
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footballer and boxer Sarah Pearce (born 1965), British professor of history Shaun Pearce (born 1969), British canoeist Shirley Pearce, English professor...
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Ossie Ocasio (category Cruiserweight boxers)
Osvaldo "Ossie" Ocasio (born August 12, 1955) is a Puerto Rican former boxer who held the World Cruiserweight Championship from 1982 to 1984. He was also...
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Terry Lawless (section Boxers managed/trained)
would defend but not attack. This was the reason Frank Bruno never faced David Pearce for the heavyweight championship of Great Britain. While living in retirement...
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Joseph Erskine (26 January 1934 – 18 February 1990) was a heavyweight boxer from the Butetown district of Cardiff, Wales. He was an Amateur Boxing Association...
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Christie Patricia Pearce (formerly Rampone; born June 24, 1975) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a defender. She is the former...
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