* 1874 – Joe Gans, American boxer ( d. 1910 )

Joe Gans: A Biography of the First African American World Boxing Champion.

Johnson finally won the world heavyweight title on December 26, 1908, a full six years after lightweight champion Joe Gans became the first African American boxing champion.

* Joe Gans ( 1990 )

Blake got his first big break in the music business when world champion boxer Joe Gans hired him to play the piano at Gans ' Goldfield Hotel, the first " black and tan club " in Baltimore in 1907.

* World Lightweight Championship – Joe Gans

World lightweight boxing champion Joe Gans

* World Lightweight Championship – Frank Erne → Joe Gans

* 30 September — Walcott meets World Lightweight Champion Joe Gans in a non-title fight which is scored a draw after 20 rounds.

* 31 October — Joe Gans meets Jimmy Britt in San Francisco to defend the World Lightweight Championship.

* World Lightweight Championship – Joe Gans → Jimmy Britt

* World Lightweight Championship – Battling Nelson → Joe Gans

* World Lightweight Championship – Joe Gans

* 4 July — Battling Nelson recovers his World Lightweight Championship from Joe Gans with a 17th round knockout at Colma, California

* World Lightweight Championship – Joe Gans → Battling Nelson

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* Joe Gans

Goldfield reached a peak population of about 20, 000 people in 1906 and hosted a lightweight boxing championship match between Joe Gans and Oscar " Battling " Nelson.

Langford defeated World Lightweight Champion Joe Gans on December 8, 1903 via 15 round decision.

Notable lightweight boxers include Alexis Argüello, Henry Armstrong, Ken Buchanan, Héctor Camacho, Tony Canzoneri, Pedro Carrasco, Joel Casamayor, Julio César Chávez, Diego Corrales, Al " Bummy " Davis, Oscar De La Hoya, Roberto Durán, Artur Grigorian, Joe Gans, Miguel Ángel González, Benny Leonard, Ray Mancini, Juan Manuel Márquez, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Sugar Shane Mosley, Carlos Ortiz, Manny Pacquiao, Edwin Valero, Pernell Whitaker, and Ike Williams.

The rematch with McFarland was set for 4 July, Independence Day, to coincide with the World Lightweight Title fight between champion Joe Gans and Battling Nelson held in California.

Such fighters include Jack Johnson, Beau Jack, and Joe Gans.

Joe Gans ( November 25, 1874-August 10, 1910 ) was born Joseph Gant in Baltimore, Maryland.

Joe Niekro had a great year with 21 wins and 3. 00 ERA.

The Giants, led by quarterback Phil Simms, running back Joe Morris and their " Big Blue Wrecking Crew " defense, advanced to their first Super Bowl after posting a 14-2 regular season record, and only allowing a combined total of 3 points in their two postseason wins.

The photo, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ( taken by Joe Rosenthal ), later wins a Pulitzer Prize.

Joe takes over Murdoch's body and wins the fight.

Ali captured eight wins in a row and many boxing fans started talking about wanting to see her square off in a boxing ring with George Foreman's daughter, Freeda Foreman, or Joe Frazier's daughter, Jackie Frazier-Lyde.

** Joe Leonard wins the season drivers ' championship

** Joe Leonard wins the season drivers ' championship

* 16 February – Joe Frazier wins the undisputed World Heavyweight title with the knock out of Jimmy Ellis in five rounds.

* Barbados Joe Walcott wins the World Welterweight Championship.

* 17 October — Joe Bowker ( England ) challenges Frankie Neil in London for the World Bantamweight Championship and wins over 20 rounds, the first non-American to hold this title.

Morrison had six wins in 1992, including fights with Art Tucker and Joe Hipp, who would later become the first Native American to challenge for the world heavyweight title.

Charity wins the state lottery, and uses the proceeds to inveigle Joe into allowing her to take Brett on a trip to visit Charity's sister, Holly, in Connecticut.

That season proved to be a dismal one ; despite the presence of Joe Malone the club only finished with four wins in 24 games.

Phil and Joe Niekro amassed 539 wins between them, the most combined wins by brothers in baseball history.

In October 1987 Bruno faced the veteran Joe Bugner, who although long past his peak was coming off impressive wins over Greg Page and David Bey.

* March 8-The Fight of the Century: before a jet-set crowd that included Cher, Frank Sinatra, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Diana Ross and others, Joe Frazier drops Muhammad Ali in the fifteenth round and wins a unanimous decision to retain the world's Heavyweight title, at New York's Madison Square Garden.

To date, he is the most successful driver for Joe Gibbs Racing with 33 wins and two championships ( 2002 and 2005 ).

* June 21-Ezzard Charles wins the vacant world Heavyweight title, defeating Jersey Joe Walcott, by a fifteen round unanimous decision, in Chicago.

Eskimo Joe have won eight ARIA Music Awards, including four wins from nine nominations in 2006 for work associated with Black Fingernails, Red Wine.

* March 21-Abe Goldstein, a newspaper writer turned boxer, wins the world Bantamweight title, with a fifteen round decision over Joe Lynch, at New York.

Langford fought heavyweight Joe Jeanette fourteen times, losing the first by eighth round retirement, winning second by decision, third and fourth were a draw via points, winning the fifth through eighth by decision, ninth was a draw via points, winning the tenth on decision, eleventh was a draw via points, lost the twelfth by decision and winning the thirteenth by seventh round knock out and fourteenth by decision ( Total: 8 wins ( 1 KO ), 2 losses ( 1 RT and 1 PTS ) and 4 draws ).

The 1989 Tiger-Cats set team records with 12 wins in a season and 519 points scored in a single season, under the leadership of head coach Al Bruno and general manager Joe Zuger.

Joe has 9 Grammy wins and in April 2003 was given the Hero's Award from the Grammy organization.