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	IBHOF / Frankie Genaro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Genaro was a quick-footed fighter who combined agility and aggression to become a world champion.
		Genaro made successful defenses of the NBA title against Ernie Jarvis, Yvon Trevidic and Belanger before meeting Midget Wolgast, who was recognized as world flyweight champ by the New York State Athletic Commission.
		Genaro never fought for another title but did manage to beat future featherweight champion Joey Archibald in 1933 before retiring in 1934.
	www.ibhof.com /genaro.htm (250 words)

	Midget Wolgast & Frankie Genaro
		Genaro went on to Europe to lose to Young Perez, and Wolgast went to Oakland, California to lose his title to Small Montana.
		Frankie Genaro was born in New York on August 16, 1901.
		Genaro got slightly better as the fight progressed, staging a whirlwind finish in the last round, but it wasn't enough to offset Brown's aggressiveness.
	members.tripod.com /~newsbrown/wolgast.html (495 words)

	Frankie Genaro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank ("Frankie") Genaro (August 26, 1901 – December 27, 1966) was a former Olympic gold medalist and boxing world flyweight champion.
		Genaro lost his American title to Fidel La Barba in 1925 and dropped a decision to former world champ Newsboy Brown in his next outing.
		Genaro successfully defended his title against Ernie Jarvis, Yvon Trevidic and Belanger.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frankie_Genaro (296 words)

	Frankie Genaro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At age nineteen years little Frankie Genaro was an Olympic Champion.
		In the confusion that followed Villa's untimely death in mid-1925, many considered Genaro the rightful heir to World Title.
		Frankie Genaro would later win and lose and win again the NBA version of the title.
	www.antekprizering.com /genaroexh.html (97 words)

	Flyweight Champions of the 1920's and ‘30's
		On March 1, 1923 Frankie Genaro outpointed Villa in 15 rounds in New York to become the American champion.
		On August 22, 1925, Fidel La Barba outpointed Frankie Genaro in a 10 round bout in San Francisco, to capture the world flyweight championship.
		Genaro also defeated La Morte in a 10 round decision in New York on August 6, 1930.
	members.tripod.com /newsbrown/champions.html (664 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Frankie Genaro
		Genaro won the American flyweight championship with a 15-round decision over Pancho Villa on March 1, 1923.
		However, Genaro won the decision in a rematch on February 6, 1928.
		Spider Pladner of France knocked Genaro out in the 1st round on March 2, 1929, but Genaro regained the title on April 18, when Pladner was disqualified for a foul in the 5th round.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/genarofrank.shtml (298 words)

	IBHOF / Pancho Villa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Genaro took the title back in 1923 in a 15-round decision that most observers believed belonged to Villa.
		Although Genaro was a likely opponent, the now wildly popular Villa was considered a better draw.
		Although a proposed rematch with Genaro never took place, Villa defended his title several times in the U.S. and the Philippines.
	www.ibhof.com /villa.htm (491 words)

	Francisco Guilledo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By this time, Villa had caught the attention of boxing afficionados, and he was slated to fight against the American flyweight champion Johnny Buff on September 15, 1922.
		Jimmy Wilde, the Welsh-born boxer and former world flyweight champion had decided to end his recent retirement and seek the then vacant world flyweight championship in a fight to be staged in America.
		On June 18, 1923, at the Polo Grounds in New York, Villa was cheered on to victory over Wilde by over 20,000 fans screaming "Viva Villa!" The win came by way of a knockout in the 7th round caused by a crashing right to Wilde's jaw.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francisco_Guilledo (1119 words)

	TIME.com: Champion v. Champion -- Jan. 5, 1931 -- Page 1
		Everywhere else Frankie Genaro, elderly and cautious Italian, is champion.
		Genaro hit him twice in the left eye with a punch supposed to be fatal to the man who tries it—a right lead.
		When it was over one judge voted for Wolgast, one for Genaro; the referee called it a draw.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,930242,00.html (364 words)

	Athletes - Frankie Genaro
		Frankie Genaro (August 26, 1901—December 27, 1966) was a former Olympic gold medalist and boxing world flyweight champion.
		Genaro lost his American title to Fidel La Barba
		Genaro's title days were over, but he did beat future featherweight champion Joey Archibald
	listing-index.ebay.com /athletes/Frankie_Genaro.html (337 words)

	Flyweight Champions of the 1920's and '30's
		On February 11, 1921, Johnny Buff (real name John Lesky) took the American title from Frankie Mason in a 15 round decision in New Orleans.
		Pancho Villa (real name Francisco Guilledo), of the Philippines, then took it away from Buff in an 11th round knockout in New York on September 14, 1922.
		The following year, Genaro was knocked out in the 2nd round by Young Perez, a French boxer, in Paris on October 26, 1931.
	www.fortunecity.com /olympia/dempsey/201 (654 words)

	Augusta Georgia: sports@ugusta: Family got Duva to the top 06/15/98
		Another hall-of-fame first was the election in the pioneer class of Mike Donovan, whose son, referee Arthur Donovan, was voted into the hall in 1993, thus making them the first father and son enshrined.
		Elected posthumously were Sammy Angott, the world lightweight champion from 1941-1943 and in 1944; Frankie Genaro, a three-time flyweight champion in the 1920s; George ``Kid'' Lavigne, who dominated the lightweight division from 1896-1899; and Sammy Mandell, who held the lightweight crown from 1926-1930.
		The 1998 inductees were selected by a 153-member panel consisting of members of the Boxing Writer's Association and boxing historians from a dozen countries.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/061598/spo_124-4088.shtml (564 words)

	Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Arcel handled over two-thousand fighters during his 70-year ring career, and none of them was ever seriously hurt.
		His World champions are: Frankie Genaro (Flyweight, 1923), Abe Goldstein (Bantamweight, 1924).
		Ray-trained champions Barney Ross, Tony Zale, Ezzard Charles, Jackie Berg, Sixto Escobar, Frankie Genaro, Ceferino Garcia and Kid Gavilan are in Ring Magazine’s Boxing Hall of Fame.
	www.jewishsports.org /jewishsports/detail.asp?id=1 (162 words)

	adamboucher.co.uk - gigs
		With Si Genaro and The Poet Hi-Ho Monday 7th March 2005
		Genaro's Last Supper - with Si Genaro, Hi Ho and Jennie Suzanne
		Genaro's Last Supper - with Ian Lory, Chris from Cordia and Si Genaro
	homepage.ntlworld.com /mike.boucher/ab/pastgigs.htm (324 words)

	Chiangmai mail- Chiangmai 's First English Language Newspaper
		The American and the Swiss judges concurred in disqualifying Pladner for a low left hook which floored Genaro for the count in the fifth, but the French judge refused to agree, declaring that Pladner had won every round.
		When Genaro and his seconds left the ring, they were attacked by spectators.
		Bottles were hurled, and Bill McCarney (Genaro’s manager) was struck by a French boxer.
	www.chiangmai-mail.com /006/sports.shtml (3152 words)

	Filipino Americans in Sports
		Won the world flyweight crown in New York defeating Jimmy Wilde, England's Mighty Atom.
		"A fistic sensation", he beat everyone, but Frankie Genaro.
		Villa met a tragic end, he fought Jimmy McLarnin while suffering from an ulcerated tooth.
	personal.anderson.ucla.edu /eloisa.borah/filamsports/filamsports.htm (349 words)

	Frankie Genaro Birthday Celebrity, Celebrity Birthdays, Sports Stars Birthdays, Born Celebrity Horoscopes, Celebrity ...
		Frankie Genaro Birthday Celebrity, Celebrity Birthdays, Sports Stars Birthdays, Born Celebrity Horoscopes, Celebrity Addresses
		Write to Frankie Genaro and request a free autographed photo.
		If this celebrity is deceased, this age represents the age they would be today if still alive.
	www.movieeye.com /celebrity_birthdays/details/12832/Frankie_Genaro.html (156 words)

	Sport's Golden Age Book edited by Allison Danzig and Peter Brandwein - Boxing Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For him there was an irresistible appeal about the "big fellow." But an abundance of good fighters in the seven other ring divisions provided him with plenty of business activity, the thrills that go with exciting combat, and the profits accruing therefrom.
		Looking back on the field, I can recall the sweeping popularity he created in the flyweight class with such fighters as Jimmy Wilde, Pancho Villa, Joe Lynch, Frankie Genaro, Fidel La Barba, Frankie Mason, Abe Attel Goldstein, and Young Zulu Kid.
		In the bantamweight class there were Pete Herman, Lynch, Jack Sharkey (not to be confused with the Boston heavyweight of the same name), Frankie Burns, Pal Moore, Johnny Buff, Eddie (Cannonball) Martin, Abe Attel Goldstein, Joe Burman, Joey Sangor, and Midgett Smith.
	www.genetunney.org /goldenage2.html (2575 words)

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		In 1926, two months before he defeated Jack Dempsey for the world heavyweight title, the great Gene "The Fighting Marine" Tunney was involved in a three-round exhibition against Harold Mayes in Youngstown.
		Henry "Homicide Hank" Armstrong, one month before he won the world featherweight title, knocked out Bobby Dean in the first round of their 1937 bout in Youngstown.
		Former lightweight champion 1982-84 Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini and his father, Lenny, were born and raised in Youngstown, where arguably the hardest-hitting heavyweight of all-time, Earnie "The Acorn" Shavers (74-14-1, 68 KOs), first learned how to box.
	www.doghouseboxing.com /chee/chee_1006c06.htm (671 words)

	adamboucher.com - Past Gigs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wednesday 1st March 2006 - The Gander, Bournemouth - With The Genaro Project, Voodoo Vegas and Fearne.
		Smiths, Bournemouth - With Si Genaro and The Poet Hi-Ho Monday 7th March 2005 - Club Destiny, Bournemouth - with Cold Earth, Hoffman Sloth, Systema and Subirach
		Smiths, Bournemouth - with Ian Lory, Con23 and The Poet Hi-Ho Tuesday 25th November 2003 - King Arthur's Court, Bournemouth - With Si Genaro, Jennie Suzanne and The Poet Hi-Ho Tuesday 18th November 2003 - King Arthur's Court, Bournemouth - with Hi-Ho, Doll Katz, Bobby Burke and Si Genaro
	www.adamboucher.com /pastgigs.cfm (1410 words)

	WBA Today in History - December
		1930: Frankie Genaro D 15 Midget Wolgast, NYC.
		1902: Harry Forbes KO 7 Frankie Neil, Oakland.
		Frankie Liles W 12 Mauricio Amaral, Stuttgart, Germany.
	www.wbaonline.com /dates/dates12.asp (4029 words)

	Frankie Genaro (039120) - OOTP Developments Forums
		Solid ring technician who had relied on outworking his opponents in the ring.
		Not blessed with a great deal of power, Genaro did have superb defense.
		His skills were good enough to net him several flyweight crowns and more than held his own with the best of his time.
	www.ootpdevelopments.com /board/showthread.php?p=894385 (156 words)

	Benny Bass: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The great Jack Dempsey said that Bass was, "...the greatest fighter of his weight and inches I have ever set my eyes upon." A member of the Philadelphia Boxing Hall of Fame, Bass also won the world junior lightweight crown during his illustrious career.
		That year, he almost made the U.S. Olympic team, but lost to future world champ Frankie Genaro in the box-offs at the Olympic trials.
		The following year, Bass turned professional, moved up a weight class, and became one the most feared fighters in the featherweight division.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Bass_Benny_304400428.htm (768 words)

	Dates 1006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		1931: Frankie Genaro W 15 Valentin Angelmann, Paris.
		1929: Frankie Genaro W 15 Ernie Jarvis, London.
		1931: Young Perez KO 2 Frankie Genaro, Paris.
	www.boxinginlasvegas.com /dates_1006.htm (5484 words)

	Flyweight geneaology
		17.Oct.1929- Frankie Genaro w15 Ernie Jarvis - London, England
		25.Mar.1931- Frankie Genaro D15 Victor Ferrand - Madrid, Spain
		1931- Frankie Genaro wko 6 Jackie Harmon - Waterbury, Conneticut
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /finbarr/btcp16.htm (1779 words)

	Gene Tunney Blames the Amateurs Magazine Article by Al Buck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eagan won the Olympic light-heavyweight title in 1920.
		That was the year Sam Mosberg won the lightweight crown and Frankie Genaro carried off flyweight honors.
		Genaro, LaBarba and Fields all became world champions.
	www.genetunney.org /magazine116.html (1445 words)

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		+ (Feb-13-1923, Boston) Frankie Mason ko 5 (America, Flyweight)
		- (Mar-1-1923, New York) Frankie Genaro 15 (America, Flyweight)
		+ (Jul-18-1924, Atlantic City) Frankie Battling Murray 8
	www.boxing-records.com /palm/villapan.html (178 words)

	NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Search old newspapers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cauliflower Ears 1 Frankie Genaro lofct the flyweight title.to.
		When Genaro saw Elky Clark, European champion, for the first time and noticed the most abundant cauliflower ear he sported, Frankie was said to have remarked: "One must be easy to hit in or- der to cultivate a cauliflower ear like that.
		Clark can't be suchmuch." C Lotcr of Music?
	www.newspaperarchive.com /newspapers2/na0002/10040/94945.html (2594 words)

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