The Roaring Twenties was a time of some of the greatest boxing,
but in the here and now of the 21st Century many boxing fans
minimize and overlook the greats of the Roaring Twenties.
One only has to look at the various polls of the modern age and
those champions hare often overlooked in the listings or choices.
But, then again look at some of the champions of that era.
The Champions:
Heavyweight: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney.
Light Heavy: George Carpentier, Battling Siki, Mike McTighe,
Paul Berlenback, Jimmy Slattery, Tommy Loughran.
Middleweight: Mike O'Dowd, Johnny Wilson, Harry Greb,
and Mickey Walker,
Welterweight: Jack Britton, Mickey Walker, Joe Dundee,
and Jackie Fields
Lightweights: Benny Leonard, Rocky Kansas, Jimmy Goodrich,
and Sammy Mandell,.
Featherweight: Johnny Kilbane, Johnyy Dundee, Eugene Crique,
Steve Sullivan, Kid Kaplan, Benny Bass, Tony Canzoneri,
Andre Routis and Bat Battalino.
Bantamweight: Joe Lynch, Pete Herman, Johnny Buff, Abe Goldstein,
Cannonball Martin, Charlie Rosenberg, Bud Taylor, Bushy Graham
and Panama Al Brown.
Flyweight: Jimmy Wilde, Pncho Villa and others.
There were also a number of Jr. welterweight and lightweight
champions many of which also won other titles such as:
Johnny Dundeek and Barney Ross, But, one of the active
champions was Todd Morgan from the Pacific Northwest
who fought the likes of Vic Foley in Vancouver and Joe Glick
in New York.
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