Not able to see well enough to box from a distance, he developed into a torrid, crowd-pleasing infighter whose incessant punching style brought to mind triple champion Henry Armstrong, someone, in the words of Nate The eldest of seven sons renowned as a boy for his ability to pick more cotton than anybody else, Slugger White, who won his nickname felling a cotton field bully, used that same indomitability to keep going in the ring with only one working headlight. But in one of those fights he suffered the detached retina that left his right eye completely sightless. White rebounded, and at the end of ‘38 he was 9-3.
Williams was then a veteran of 44 fights, and was recognized as the ‘Negro Lightweight Champion’ by virtue of his defeat of Baby Tiger Flowers two years before he met White.
#WHITE BOXER PROFESSIONAL#
White’s disability reportedly went back to 1938, but his career had gotten off on the wrong foot a year before that when in his first professional bout the native of Athens, Georgia was stopped in four rounds by the aforementioned Holman Williams. If that seems totally preposterous, what about a guy who could take out his right eye and play marbles with it but had no trouble passing pre-fight medical examinations? Jackie Wilson was the 1936 Olympic bantamweight silver medalist and later a top ranked lightweight and welterweight who, like Williams, is enshrined in the World Boxing Hall of Fame.įor some reason boxing has turned a blind eye to the accomplishments of Luther “Slugger” White, who literally did the same thing to most of his opponents during the eight year career that saw White rise as high as the number two spot in the Ring’s 135-pound rankings, and win recognition as lightweight champion in his home base of Maryland.Īnd who knows, if they’d left the lights out when L.A.’s Gilmore Stadium was hit by an electrical failure during White’s fight with Sammy Angott, it might’ve leveled the playing field enough for the mostly blind fighter to nab the NBA belt. Another uncrowned champion, Holman Williams defeated Burley and Archie Moore. Bob Montgomery became world lightweight champion and, like the previous two, an inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Burley is considered by many the best fighter never to win a title. Robinson is today widely regarded as the greatest fighter ever to don gloves. They were Sugar Ray Robinson, Charley Burley, Bob Montgomery, Holman Williams, Jackie Wilson, and Luther “Slugger” White. But in the April 1942 issue of The Ring magazine, editor-publisher Nat Fleischer singled out for praise six “colored lads” who, he said, “had come along with flying colors” in the welterweight and lightweight ranks over the previous 10 months. Another issue with a lot of white coated dogs including the Boxer is that they are more predisposed to impaired hearing and vision.In the 1940s plenty of excellent African-American boxers never got the opportunities and recognition they deserved.
#WHITE BOXER SKIN#
With this said because they have lower levels of melamine they are more prone to being sunburnt and of developing skin cancer. The other difference between an albino dog and a White Boxer is that they are the result of two White Boxers that have the “recessive gene” being mated whereas a white dog that’s albino would be the result of having the “albino gene mutation”.Īnother myth is that White Boxers are more prone to developing and suffering from more health issues but there is no evidence of this being true. A simply white dog would have normal coloured eyes. They are not “albino” either they simply have less pigment in their skin and although some completely white dogs might be thought of as being albino they would have to have “pink” eyes to truly be so. In fact 25% of Boxers when first born are white. There has been a lot of myths about White Boxers and the fact they are rare which is not true at all.
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