| Boxing: Round Two |
| Ready to go another round? Take part two of our Jewish Boxing Quiz! |
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1. Benny Bass, Abe Atell, and Louis "Kid" Kaplan all have been World Champion in this lighter-weight class of boxing:
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2. Chicago’s own Samuel Berger, in 1904, won a Gold Medal, becoming the first Heavyweight Champion in the ____ Games:
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3. Another fighter from that time, was Hall of Famer Joe Choynski. Joe fought legendary “J” name heavyweights like Jim J. Corbett, James Jeffries, and Jack Johnson! Heavyweights start at 200 pounds, but Joe was considered a heavyweight although he never weighed more than ____ pounds!
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4. When Mike Rossman won the world light-heavyweight championship in 1978, it was before the largest indoor boxing audience up to then! To be fair, many people might have been there to see the following fight, a rematch between Leon Spinks and “The Greatest” boxer ever:
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5. Alphonse Halmi was born in Algeria, and gained the world bantamweight title in France in 1957. He later won the European Bantamweight title in 1962, in the first professional boxing match ever held in:
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6. Solly Kreiger fought for 10 years before becoming world middleweight champ in 1938. He made it on his ___ fight!
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7. “Dangerous” Dana Rosenblatt was the world middleweight champion in 1998. He was a black belt in a Korean martial art at 16, when he also started Judo. But he won the US middleweight amateur title in a sport that combines boxing and martial arts, called:
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8. Victor Perez was born in Tunisia (where the desert scenes in Star Wars were later shot!). He was world flyweight champion from 1931-32, winning his crown in a second-round knockout! He kept boxing until 1938, the start of World War II… and died in 1943 in:
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9. Saoul Mamby has a Hispanic mom and a Jamaican dad. He’s a Vietnam vet, and has boxed in Indonesia, Thailand, and Nigeria. He was the world champion boxer in the junior-welterweight class in 1980, defending his title five times. But his world record comes from being the oldest pro boxer ever, at age:
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10. Jacob Finkelstein boxed as "Jackie Fields," and held the world welterweight title twice in 1929 and the early 1930s. But his world record comes from being the youngest to ever win Olympic boxing Gold, when he was only:
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