Boxing History: George Dixon

By Luke Beirne:  GEORGE Dixon was born on July 29th, 1870, in Africville, Nova Scotia. In 1888, Dixon became the first black boxer to win a world championship when he defeated Tommy Kelly for the Bantamweight title in Boston. Two years later, Dixon traveled to London and knocked out Nunc Wallace in the eighteenth round […]
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