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Jimmy Wilde
Lightweight Champion
1916-1923
b. May 15, 1892
d. March 10, 1969
Heavyweight champion Gene Tunney lauded Jimmy
Wilde as "the greatest fighter I ever saw." The frail-looking
Wilde, whose skinny limbs and protruding ribs belied the power
of his punches, became the first flyweight champion to be
recognized in the United States as well as in Britain. The
flyweight class was established in England in 1909 by the
National Sporting Club, but American recognition of the division
did not come until 1916, the year Wilde took the world title.
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