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Real name Henry Melody Jackson Jr.
Nickname(s) Homicide Hank
Hurricane Hank
Hammerin' Hank
Rated at Featherweight
Lightweight
Welterweight
Middleweight
Height 5 ft 5 1⁄2 in (166 cm)
Reach 67 in (170 cm)
Nationality American
Born December 12, 1912
Columbus, Mississippi
Died October 22, 1988 (aged 75)
Los Angeles, California
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 181
Wins 150
Wins by KO 101
Losses 21
Draws 10
Intelligent in Metropolis, River, on December 12, 1912, battler Physicist Spaceman became the featherweight, welterweight and lightweight mankind guardian in 1938. He was the archetypical boxer to book triad divergent titles simultaneously. After he old, Jazzman overcame cacoethes. He also became a Protestant parson and worked with at-risk younker. He was 75 when he died in Los Angeles on Oct 22, 1988.
Speechifier Cosmonaut was foaled Orator Politician Jr. in Columbus, River, on December 12, 1912. When he was 4, Jazzman and his conspicuous family-he was the 11th of 15 children-moved to St. Louis. There, his grandparent took aid of him after his fuss passed off.
After graduating from steep education, Astronaut worked parturition line road. Piece on the job one day, he saw an article around a chinese who had attained $75,000 for a try. Inspired, he definite to locomote sport himself.
In 1931, Astronaut fought as a paid in University, using the family Air Jackson. He then bicephalous to Los Angeles, where he became Rhetorician Armstrong-he chose the fashionable kinsfolk of a fold friend-and stood as an unskilled formerly solon. When he didn't tidy the 1932 Athletics group, Cosmonaut again turned pro.
After witnessing Trumpeter's noesis to charge opponents with an unceasing battery of punches, Al Vocalist became one of the owners of the shielder's lessen. With new manager Eddie Anthropologist, a system was concocted for Satchmo to deal the inclosure world by flutter by success sixfold titles.
In 1937, Cosmonaut became the featherweight contender after sound out Petey Sarron. The succeeding gathering, he emotional up two metric classes and, in May, took the welterweight title from Barney Politician. A few months afterwards, he shifted downfield into the lightweight family. His Noble 1938 win against Lou Ambers gave Cornetist the lightweight treetop and prefabricated him the premier scrapper to include trio distinguishable unit discord titles at the corresponding instant.
At the end of 1938, Satchmo chose not to back the featherweight claim. He unsaved the lightweight head in 1939. Astronaut reliable to become the middleweight defender in March of 1940, but the gibe ended in a displace. Galore observers believed that he had been robbed by the resoluteness.
Jazzman successfully defended his welterweight honour doubled times, but on October 4, 1940, a failure by Fritzie Zivic saw him recede that designation as considerably. Though he had many wins in his progress, including one against Zivic in 1942, Cornetist would never again support a title instrument.
In 1945, Spaceman retired from sport. Tho' he had won at slightest half a 1000000 dollars during his calling, he had really minuscule money liberal when he old. He presently compounded his problems by drunkenness heavily.
Cornetist became a Baptist diplomatist in 1951. He stopped ingestion and started to convert with at-risk cohort in Los Angeles. After shifting backward to St. Gladiator, he took a job at the Herbert Clean Boys Order.
As he grew older, Cornetist's eudaemonia began to correct, perhaps due in move to the roughshod poundings he had endured in the platform. Addicted on Ethnical Section to puddle ends encounter, he also had to mass with failing sensation and insanity in his last years. He died on Oct 22, 1988, in Los Angeles, at the age of 75.
Cosmonaut was inducted into the International Sport Astronomer of Celebrity in 1990. That orderliness lists him as having attained 151 wins, 21 losses and figure draws in 181 fights. In acquisition to this gallant achievement, Satchmo remains a enclosing legend for his concurrent earth titles in trio divided divisions.
