Suffering injuries to his left ankle, world featherweight boxing champion Willie Pep is comforted by his dad, Salvatore Papaleo, at Millville, N.J....
Abe Attell, the greatest featherweight boxer that ever lived poses for a portrait while eating with friends at Jack Dempsey's resturant in New York,...
New York: Keeps His Featherweight Crown. After a rough-and-tough fight with challenger Willie Pep at the Polo Grounds, Sept. 26, featherweight...
Sandy Saddler, , the world's featherweight champion, is shown with Commissioner Julius Helfand , and Teddy "Redtop" Davis, as Saddler and Davis...
Johnny Dundee, top featherweight contender training for title fight with Eugene Cirgui at camp in Orange, New Jersey, July 15, 1923.
Johnny Dundee, top featherweight contender training for title fight with Eugene Cirgui at camp in Orange, New Jersey, July 15, 1923.
Portrait of the first New York State Athletic Commission bantamweight world champion, Joe Lynch, circa 1900.
Featherweight boxer from Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdon, Jim Driscoll poses for a portrait, circa, 1900.
Eugene Criqui, French battle scarred war hero and contender for the worlds featherweight championship is training hard for his match against Johnny...
American featherweight boxer Augie Pantellas falls on top of his unidentified opponent during a bout at the Philadelphia Arena, Philadelphia,...
Miguel Berrios , Puerto Rican featherweight, lands a left to Bobby Bell's face in the fourth round of their bout at St. Nick's Arena tonight. Berrios...
Chamrern Songkiatrat , of Thailand, hangs on the middle strand of the ropes after receiving a battering from Mexico's Raul Macias in the eighth round...
Bantamweight Robert Cohen, a tough, stocky, Algerian born fighter, skips rope during his daily workout at a Paris gym. Although the U.S. Boxing...
Japan's Mitsunori Seki swings a right at Britain's Howard Winstone during the first round of their world featherweight championship fight at London's...
Washington, D.C.: Cherif Hamia, French featherweight champion outpointed Ike Chestnut here tonight, but took this stiff right on the jaw in the...
Finnish small fry stand around and watch Isamu Shiraishi, Japanese Bantam Weight Lifter, working out in preparation for the Olympic Games which open...
The Italian deaf mute fighter Mario D'Agata looks down here, as dethroned world bantamweight champion Robert Cohen from France hugs the canvas in the...
Olympic boxing finals at Wembley is shown here with T. Csik, of Hungary, in white socks, and G. E. Zuddas of Italy, during their bout in the...
Before the "Merry Old Fisticuffs!" New York: Fidel La Barba, of California and Seaman Thomas Watson, the British featherweight champion, are shown...
As featherweight title bout at the Cow Palace goes into the 12th round the cut on the eye of Philippine challenger Flash Elorde flows freely. Here...
Lightweight Larry Boardman , of Marlboro, Conn., jolts featherweight champ Sandy Saddler with a whistling left hook in the 9th round of their bout at...
New York: Saddler Wins Featherweight Title. Willie Pep is knocked to the canvas by Sandy Saddler , during their scheduled 15-round featherweight...
Johnny Dundee, veteran of over three hundred battles in the squared circle, and former featherweight champion, is pictured above being weighed in at...
Sandy Saddler , world's featherweight champion, peppers the head of Lulu Perez with a series of lefts and rights in the third session of their...
Georgie Pace, Cleveland Boxer, being presented with title certificate by Tris Speaker former baseball star and now head of the Cleveland boxing...
Teddy "Red Top" Davis batters Percy Bassett through the ropes during their 12 round featherweight go at New York's Madison Square Garden. Davis was...
Jakos Brendal of Germany attempts to roll Marcello Mizzola of Italy in their match for the bantamweight Championship in the Greco-Roman events of the...
London: Vernon Sollas of Edinburgh being waved back by referee after knocking out Martin Galleozzie of Merthyr in the seventh round of their 8 round...
Japanese challenger Fighting Harada is knocked through ropes by defending champ Johnny Famechon of Australia in the 14th round of their world...
Raymond Suvigny, of France, who won the weight lifting event for the featherweight class at the Los Angeles Olympics.
Einar Karlsson of Sweden and Taylor of Great Britain mix things up for their featherweight wrestling here. The match was won by Karlsson in the Los...
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight champion, with Mrs. Kilbane and their daughter Mary, who sailed on the Aquitania for London and other European centers...
Mexico City- World featherweight champion Vincente Saldivar wards off a right to his head thrown by challenger Mitsunori Seki of Japan during their...
New York, NY- With mouth open, featherweight champ Sandy Saddler gets set to swing up with a right in close-quarter clash with Paddy DeMarco during...
New York, NY: Sandy Saddler, featherweight champion who witnessed the swearing in to the the Marine Corps today of his younger brother George is...
New York, New York: Willie Pep, who tonight won the New York version of the world featherweight championship from Chalky Wright, got his left jab...
August 4 Los Angeles: Joseph Reid of England forces the shoulders of Zervinis Georges of Greece to the mat during the Bantam weight events of the...
While the two judges and referee look closely, Herman Pihlajamaki of Finland attempts to pin Einar Karlsson of Sweden during their bantamweight bout...
Rober Cohen of France became the new Bantam weight boxing champion of the world when he gained a points victory over champion Songkitrat of Thailand,...
Featherweight champ Sandy Saddler reaches to the canvas for his mouthpiece in the eight round as challenger Gabriel Elorde of the Philippines moves...
Willie Pep, former featherweight champ from Hartford, Conn., lands a left to the jaw of Andy Arel of Messena, N.Y., during the ninth round of their...
Boxing trainer Howie Steindler who managed featherweight champion Danny "Little Red" Lopez was found shot to death in his car on a freeway in the San...
Filipino featherweight challenger Gabriel "Flash" Elorde, right, hangs on for dear life in the thirteenth round seconds before referee Ray Flores...
Flash Elorde of the Philippines delivers a hard right to the face of featherweight champion Sandy Saddler during their title bout at the Cow Palace....
Seconds works desperately to revive Filipino boxer Alberto Jangalay who collapsed after being knocked out in the eighth round of a ten-round...
Boxer Alberto Jangalay is felled by a left hook from Kid Snowball during the eighth round of their bantam weight match. Jangalay got to his feet...
Willie Pep flattens his glove in the face of Fabela Chavez during the sixth round of their featherweight bout in St. Louis. Pep took a unanimous...
Featherweight champ Willie Pep is shown landing a hard right to French challenger Ray Famechon's midsection during tonight's 15-round title bout at...
Chalky Wright menacingly displays the left hook with which he hopes to defeat Willie Pep in the battle for the Featherweight title at Madison Square...
New York, New York-Tony Canzoneri, former world's featherweight champion, who is the favorite tonight in his bout with Johnny Farr, a Cleveland boy....
Mexico City, Mexico- World featherweight champion Sugar Ramos, in black trunks, and Mexican champion Vincente Saldivar trade blows during their match...
New York, NY- Photo shows Tony Canzoneri, leading bantamweight of the East, as he punched the heavy bag at Stillman Gym here preparing for his coming...
Marcus Villasana of Mexico backs away from a right thrown by Azumah Nelson of Ghana during WBC featherweight title match at the Forum. Nelson went on...
New York, New York- Champion Sandy Saddler and Willie Pep shake hands at weigh-in for their return featherweight title bout at Madison Square Garden....
San Francisco, CA- Photo shows the participants in the May 4th bantamweight title fight, challenger Herman Marquez of Stockton, CA, and champion Eder...
Inglewood, CA- Referee Larry Ozadilla signals that it's all over for Australia's Lionel Rose in the fifth round of Rose's fight with Ruben Olivares...