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	[Feb 23, 2007] Tom Lovgren: Nebraska's Nat Fleischer Thomas W. Lovgren has painstakingly researched and chronicled boxing in the State of Nebraska for over a half-century.

	[Feb 12, 2007] Vidal Flores: Fury and Faith A native of Floresville, Texas, Flores came to Milwaukee in 1953 and started working at the Plankinton Packing House in the city's Menomonee Valley.

	[Jan 26, 2007] W.C. Heinz: The Great Communicator When the internet took off in the 1990s, Heinz was wary of its literary impact. "I'm not for more writers," he said, "only better ones."

	[Jan 15, 2007] Vote Mitchell for a Prouder (but Paler) Milwaukee! Richie Mitchell didn't make the Press Club's roster of local sports greats.

	[Dec 24, 2006] Buddy Turman: Still Fighting, Still Winning At 17, Turman knew he wanted to be a fighter, but in east Texas then there weren't a lot of opportunities for that.

	[Nov 27, 2006] Gene Tunney: Boxing's Most Unique Champion Tunney was mocked as a highfaluting stuffed-shirt. Beating Jack Dempsey, the emblem of the Roaring '20s, only made it worse.

	[Nov 24, 2006] Few Did It As Well As Willie Pep Asked what it was like to fight the legendary featherweight champion, Campeche said it was akin to "trying to stamp out a grass fire."

	[Nov 10, 2006] Don Lutz: A Champion Any Way You Look At It His record was 18-2-2, his manager was Angelo Dundee, and he trained alongside Muhammad Ali and the other world champions in Miami.

	[Oct 30, 2006] Joe Orbillo: "Jerry Quarry Saved My Life" Jerry Quarry and Joey Orbillo weren't just two of the most talked-about young heavyweights in America when they met 40 years ago.

	[Oct 9, 2006] Slaughterhouse Henry Baker: The Heavyweight Champion of Halloween According to The Milwaukee Journal of May 23, 1895, Baker was "Milwaukee born and bred."

	[Oct 1, 2006] Monroe Ratliff: "Everybody I fought, I love 'em." In the ring his calling card was a left hook potent enough to almost get him fired from the training camp of heavyweight title challenger Roy Harris.

	[Sep 7, 2006] Jimmy Lester: The Harder the Fight, the Better He Liked It Death triumphs over us all, but after this one The Grim Reaper will probably be pissing blood for a while.

[Sep 3, 2006]
"Honest John" Morgenroth: Milwaukee Boxing's Best Friend
When Benny Leonard came to Milwaukee to fight Mitchell in 1917, Morgenroth hosted a banquet for the New York fighter.  More ...

[Aug 8, 2006]
Paul Cavagnaro: A Fighter for Life
Some sportswriters in his native San Francisco were wondering if Cavagnaro could take heavyweight champion of the world Joe Louis.  More ...

[Aug 1, 2006]
Anton the Greek: Fearless to the End
Born Theodore Antonopoulis in Ageonsosten, Greece on September 2, 1891, Anton came to live in Milwaukee in 1902.  More ...

[Jul 11, 2006]
Joe Jawson: The Milwaukee Iron Man
His birth name was Joseph Jaworski, but by the time he started fighting for a living in the early 1920s he changed it to Joe Jawson.  More ...

[Jul 5, 2006]
There was nothing punk about Tom Sharkey
Tom Sharkey's fearsome had been appropriated by slobs so infatuated with their own brain damage that they entitled their CD "Punch Drunk."  More ...

[Jun 13, 2006]
Mike Quarry: He Learned to Walk Away
In 1991, 40-year-old Mike Quarry watched Tommy Hearns win the World Boxing Council light heavyweight belt from Virgil Hill.  More ...

[May 25, 2006]
When Ted Jamieson Fought Harry Greb
Ted Jamieson's obituary noted that he had been U.S. amateur light heavyweight champion, and had fought Gene Tunney and Tommy Gibbons.  More ...

[May 10, 2006]
Knute Hansen: A Not-So-Durable Dane
Born December 6, 1903, Knud Hansen became "Knute" after he arrived in Racine, Wisconsin from his native Copenhagen, Denmark.  More ...

[Apr 16, 2006]
Billy Lochner, Forever Fifteen
Even with a world war going on, life must have seemed sweet and full of promise to Billy Lochner when he woke up on April 4, 1944. First, though, there were daily chores to do.  More ...

[Apr 4, 2006]
Jim Hall of Fame
If boxing historian Bill Schutte has his way, there soon will be a headstone on the grave of 19th century ring great Jim Hall. If Hall had his way, he'd probably prefer a different kind of memorial.  More ...

[Mar 12, 2006]
The Invincibility Serenade
Father Divine was first heard from in the early 1900s when he was arrested as a public nuisance while evangelizing in Valdosta and booked as "John Doe, alias God."  More ...

[Feb 28, 2006]
Ned Carpenter's Great White Hope
When he was 22, Ned Carpenter was one of the best ballplayers in town. But then the worldwide dragnet for White Hopes snared him.  More ...

[Feb 12, 2006]
Monte Munn, Politics, Boxing, Life
Born in Fairbury, Nebraska on New Year's Day, 1901, Monte Munn was a standout in football, track and basketball at Lincoln High School.  More ...

[Jan 30, 2006]
Luther "Slugger" White: Not seeing is believing
In the April 1942 issue of The Ring magazine, editor-publisher Nat Fleischer singled out for praise six "colored lads."  More ...

[Jan 15, 2006]
Tom Andrews: America's Greatest Boxing Authority
Tom Andrews had as much reason to celebrate the New Year 1905 as anyone high on the beer that made Milwaukee famous.  More ...

[Oct 26, 2005]
Boxing's Knute Rockne
A large injustice will be rectified when John J. Walsh becomes the third boxing figure to be inducted into the 54-year-old Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame.  More ...

[Oct 11, 2005]
Max Baer Whipped by Unknown
After Braddock upset Baer for the heavyweight championship, Baer lost a decision to an opponent who'd never even had a professional match.  More ...

[Sep 27, 2005]
Jack Dougherty: Boxing, Clog Dancing, Potter's Field
Dougherty came to the Milwaukee area with his family as a boy and began his professional prize-fighting career in 1901.  More ...

[Sep 21, 2005]
Black Boxing Back in Milwaukee
When local promoters tried to match Sam Langford and Sam McVey, the commission drew the color line.  More ...

[Sep 9, 2005]
Rise and Fall of Zora Folley
Longtime Chandler residents recall him as a diminutive kid who was picked on until a sudden growth spurt made Folley 6'1" and a solid 180 pounds as a teenager.  More ...

[Sep 5, 2005]
Young Mitchell ... Boxing Rough-and-Tumble
John L. Herget, whose ring name was Young Mitchell, was "perhaps the best middleweight in America in his time."  More ...