26 July - 1919 - The Forgotten Flyweight Champion

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Australia On This Day

65 episodes

9 months ago

What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.

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What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

26 July - 1919 - The Forgotten Flyweight Champion

Australia On This Day

15 minutes 12 seconds

4 years ago

26 July - 1919 - The Forgotten Flyweight Champion

REPEAT: On this day in 1919, boxer George Mendies won the Australian Flyweight Title — and it was a crown he'd defend successfully again and again. Despite this being a period of racism and anti-Semitism, this Jewish-Portuguese-Chinese Australian champion was hugely popular — and his fate was every bit as tragic as those of Les Darcy and Dave Sands.

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