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  Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler is a former boxer who reigned as the WBA Bantamweight Champion of the world from November, 1980 to April, 1984.
Held to a four-round draw in his pro debut, Chandler then began a four year long string of victories culminating in a title challenge versus WBA 118-pound champ Julian Solis in Miami.
Chandler won the title by fourteenth round knockout, becoming the first American fighter to hold the bantamweight crown in over 30 years.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/jeff_chandler   (507 words)

  
 ESPN.com: BOXING - Joltin' Jeff enters Hall
Jeff Chandler, longtime bantam champ, lands a punch on Javier Flores.
Chandler, arguably the greatest bantamweight in U.S. history, was 33-2-2 with 19 knockouts.
Chandler's pro debut was a four-round draw with Mike Dowling, but he went on to win his next 25 straight.
espn.go.com /boxing/columns/graham/572820.html   (1463 words)

  
 ESPN.com: BOXING - International Boxing Hall of Fame grows
Olson was one of four boxers chosen in the modern category.
Also honored were bantamweight champion "Joltin Jeff" Chandler from Philadelphia; Ken Buchanan, the first living Scottish boxer to make it into the Hall of Fame; and lightweight champion Jimmy Carter (81-30-8, with 31 knockouts).
Chandler, a slick boxer who turned professional after only two amateur bouts, won the WBA bantamweight title in 1980 and successfully defended it nine times.
espn.go.com /boxing/news/2000/0611/579775.html   (639 words)

  
 leedsfans.org.uk: Leeds United Player Profile: Jeff Chandler
Apparently he shares his name with a boxer - who was world bantamweight champion from 1980-84 and rated as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world at the time - and a film star who played in numerous movies from the late 1940s to early 1960s.
Dave Bishop says: I went to Primary school with Jeff and in later played football with him at senior school.
An interesting fact about Jeff is that when he gained one of his two International caps for the Republic of Ireland against the USA in 1979.
www.leedsfans.org.uk /leeds/players/65.html   (355 words)

  
 Game may rest on foot of kicker
You are Jeff Chandler, metaphorically speaking, and you know that somehow, some way, the outcome of today's Giants-49ers game is going to depend on you.
Nevertheless, this is your moment, Jeff Chandler -- your chance to score free drinks at every cheap dive from Corte Madera to Castroville, if a 120- mile pub crawl is your idea of hoots and giggles.
This is your chance to separate yourself from the '50s actor of the same name, in case you're ever confused for a man in his 70s.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/05/SP172871.DTL&type=printable   (811 words)

  
 Austin's roadmap to stardom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This Chandler, a Hall of Fame boxer from Philadelphia who fought in the early 1980s, is regarded as one of the all-time best bantamweights.
Boxers come and go here, either because it gets too hard to make the 118-pound weight or because they can make more money against bigger opponents.
Cincinnati's Tim Austin, the IBF bantamweight champ, is at this crossroads.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/06/17/spt_austins_roadmap.html   (937 words)

  
 PHILLY BOXING HISTORY
We saw Jeff Chandler, Matthew Saad Muhammad, Jerome Artis, Curtis Parker, Alfonso Hayman, Youngblood Williams, and many others.
Oh, sure, you'll find Joe Frazier, Bernard Hopkins, Chandler and Saad in there, but also lesser-known guys who never quite strode the world stage but are no less a part of this city's rich boxing mosaic.
Some of the best elements of this Web site have been contributed by the families of former boxers, who have opened their personal archives to us.
www.phillyboxinghistory.com /about.htm   (1326 words)

  
 Colorado Boxing News
The boxers should be required to pay dues that will also go in to funds that will help to protect them now and hopefully help ensure them of some security in their post fight lives.
The last three boxers who have been elevated to the mantle of greatness in this class were Carlos Monzon, Marvin Hagler and Bernard Hopkins, yet each boxer failed to do the one thing that may have cemented their ultimate link with the Gods of boxing.
Joey was a slick boxer with a granite chin.
www.coloradoboxing.com   (14206 words)

  
 A knockout of a quiz
Who was the only boxer to defeat Rocky Marciano in the amateur ranks: (A) Coley Wallace.
Which boxer wasn't among Lee J. Cobb's bodyguards in "On the Waterfront:'' (A) Tami Mauriello.
In "Carmen Jones,'' based on Biset's opera but with a central character who is a boxer and not a bullfighter, the singing voice of Dorothy Dandridge was dubbed by: (A) Lena Horne.
www.suntimes.com /output/sports/cst-spt-fite25.html   (760 words)

  
 Boxing News -- 24 hours/day - Reload often!
Pongsaklek, unbeaten in these eight years since his last defeat in 1996, usually connects with numerous combination punches to the face and the belly of with precision to effectively weaken his opponent.
If neither dynamic nor powerful, he is said to be one of the most skillful flyweight boxers Asia has ever produced.
The WBC has already made an order for the winner of this title bout to participate in a mandatory defense against Jorge 'Travieso' Arce, Mexico, who has renounced his WBC 108-pound throne in order to have an obligatory shot at the 112-pound crown.
www.fightnews.com /koizumi247.htm   (472 words)

  
 Hot Boxing News!
Not only is Benvenuti a 1960 Olympic Gold Medal winner in the welterweight division, but he is also voted the outstanding boxer of the entire Games.
The bantamweight is 22-0 when he steps in the ring with Jeff Chandler, the long time WBA 118 lb.
Sandoval stops Chandler in the 15th round to claim the title.
www.hotboxingnews.com /NEWS2005/news062505.htm   (940 words)

  
 Iron Man (1951)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
When Chandler takes on a bully and thoroughly thrashes him, his brother (Steve McNally) and girl (Evelyn Keyes) see a glamorous future and fast money for him – and for them.
The only catch is that Chandler isn't a born boxer: He's clumsy and gets pummeled.
But it's one of Chandler's best roles (he's as good as Kirk Douglas in The Champion, if not so convincing as Robert Ryan in The Set-Up, both of two years earlier).
www.imdb.com /Title?0043678   (504 words)

  
 Your Top Source For Boxing News and Training Advice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Of course, that is not something you expect to get at 20 years old from one of the Greatest Boxers of all time and a guy you have watched since you were a kid.
When I was 15 there used to be a section in Ring Magazine called Boxers Beat and in it they would have addresses of former Boxers and I used to pick out certain guys to ask for Autographs from.
He gave it to me and said it was one of the last, and maybe THE LAST card, given out to someone that wasn’t an actual member of his program in San Diego.
www.rossboxing.com /articles/article125.htm   (3154 words)

  
 Marilyn Maxwell: The Other M.M.
Although it was her seventh film for MGM, Swing Fever (1943) was a nice showcase for the talented star, and with the billing ãintroducing Marilyn Maxwell.ä Playing singer ãGinger Grey,ä Marilyn, at the insistence of boxing manager William Gargan, romantically strings along classical composer Kay Kyser.
Marilynâs romantic scenes with Chandler (whom she was also seeing off-screen) were impressively intense, but undermined the believability of his attraction to native girl Suzan Ball.
Jeff Chandler, MM as ãLory Hale,ä Anthony Quinn, Suzan Ball, Peter Graves, John Sutton, J. Flippen, Scat Man Crothers, Aram Katcher, Eugene Yglesias.
www.classicimages.com /2000/february00/marilynmaxwell.shtml   (6810 words)

  
 The Best of New Haven 2001 - Food Cravings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Celebrating 10 years in business and its ninth year winning our readers' poll, owner Jeff Chandler talks about his business, his loyal customer base and what it's like to compete for the best aroma--since Julia's is located one store away from Yankee Candle.
Chandler started Julia's--named after his daughter--with his wife, Roseann, and sister, Carolyn, in a much smaller space in the Loehmann's Plaza.
When he's not on the phone--wheeling and dealing and staying up on certain things, like freshness--DiLegge is focused on his biggest daily task, maintaining the high consistency of his menu.
old.newhavenadvocate.com /bestof01/food.html   (1623 words)

  
 Rick Schroder taps cultural resource for 'Black Cloud'
Drawing on this reservoir of anger and pain, Schroder picked up a pen and his journal and began writing a screenplay, in longhand.
Jeff Chandler played Cochise in "Broken Arrow" and Burt Lancaster played Massai, the last Apache warrior captured, in "Apache," and also the American Indian athlete title character in "Jim Thorpe -- All-American."
But in truth, the script wasn't so much a story about an angry American Indian boxer as it was Schroder living through the character.
www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/0316schroder16.html   (1915 words)

  
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"Frankie was a very good boxer," he says, "and the first time I fought him he put up a good scrap and it went the distance.
Leon and Michael Spinks, Ken Norton, George Chuvalo, Bob Foster, Carmen Basilio, Dick Di Veronica, Jolting Jeff Chandler, Emile Griffith, Sugar Ramos and a dozen other ring lords mingle with the locals.
Jolting Jeff Chandler has a little white goatee that makes him look older than he is, but he won't shave it.
www.geocities.com /mgpaul2/canastota-2001.txt   (2485 words)

  
 WBA Today in History - December
Chandler avenges an earlier non-title defeat to Muniz.
in the left shoulder after awaking to see the 37-year old boxer standing near her in a darkened room of the house in which she was staying.
Jeff Chandler KO 13 Eijiro Murata, Atlantic City.
www.wbaonline.com /dates/dates12.asp   (4038 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Iron Man : Main
Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Rock Hudson
A remake of the 1931 film of the same name, Iron Man stars Jeff Chandler as up-and-coming...
A remake of the 1931 film of the same name, Iron Man stars Jeff Chandler as up-and-coming boxer Cokie Martin.
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/62701/moviemain.jhtml   (179 words)

  
 AMCTV.com - Shows related to The Female Animal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
A deaf and mute boxer (Tony Curtis) earns himself a title bout, and his hearing, with the help of a beautiful reporter.
Humphrey Bogart plays a press agent for a sleazy fight promoter who discovers he's promoting a boxer whose fights are fixed.
Robert Montgomery plays a happy-go-lucky boxer prematurely sent to heaven, who returns to earth in a millionaire's body.
www.amctv.com /show/moremovieinterest?CID=6574-PST   (1407 words)

  
 Boxing News - BoxingScene.com - :: Articles : Golden Era Boxers Enter California Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Oscar "The Boxer" Muniz, Terry Norris, Joey Orbillo, George "Scrap Iron" Johnson, Reuben Navarro, Paul Gonzales, Frankie Duarte, Monroe Brooks, Jose Luis Cotero and Stan Ward are the fighters that will be inducted into the California Boxing Hall of Fame on Saturday, March 5, 2005 at Steven’s Steak House in Commerce, California.
They were all once a part of an elite group of local boxers that filled the old Olympic Auditorium to capacity every Thursday night for years on end.
Oscar was a terrific fighter, on July 23, 1983, he beat the great bantamweight champion Jeff Chandler in a ten round non-title fight.
www.boxingscene.com /index.php?m=show&id=804   (2122 words)

  
 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Ja-Ji)
He was born in 1894 and died in 1974.
Jack Britton was an American boxer, who won the world welterweight title in 1915, 1916 and again in 1919, holding it until 1922.
James Corbett (Gentleman Jim) was an American boxer.
www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/C7A.HTM   (6759 words)

  
 AMCTV.com - Shows related to The Endless Summer II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This film takes a sympathetic look at the Younger brothers, outlaws who joined the James Gang after their family was killed.
John Garfield plays a man who becomes a boxer to save his family from poverty, only to confront the seedy underbelly of the sport.
Kirk Douglas plays an unscrupulous boxer who sacrifices friends and acquaintances on his way to the top.
www.amctv.com /show/moremovieinterest?CID=55893-EST   (2617 words)

  
 HOT BOXING NEWS: BOXING
By Juan C. Ayllon (NOV 22) Heavyweight boxer Fres Oquendo (24-3-0, 15 KO’s) is, if nothing else, a competitive athlete whose sense of accomplishment and justice in relation to his God-given potential is rankled.
It all stemmed from fixed fights occurring from March of 1995 to August 2000, involving building the record of Pro boxer Richie “the bull” Melito Jr.
Chandler, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reigned as the WBA Bantamweight Champion from 1980-1984.
www.hotboxingnews.com /newsnovember2004.html   (2426 words)

  
 Boxing News - BoxingScene.com - :: Articles : Reggie Johnson's Return and Random Thoughts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Reggie is one of boxings good guys and although not young for a boxer, he’s kept himself in top shape and wants the title again badly.
This year the members (of which I am proud to be one) who vote for the candidates has chosen: Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini, a great guy and old friend of this scribe, whose boxing credentials make him an excellent choice.
Jeff Chandler, who dominated the lighter weight divisions for many years, with his smooth style and classy demeanor.
www.boxingscene.com /?m=show&id=1873   (1654 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com | | Film | Techno Prisoners | 1996-02-08   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The only other point of agreement might be their inversion of the reactionary values of their respective genres--Daves' film is a triumph of didactic liberalism, while the new Broken Arrow, a brutal "technothriller," undermines the format of the contemporary action movie.
Where Woo finds a fresh angle on the action-film format is in his exploration of the differences between the two men's competitive senses.
Travolta gets the better of Slater, and afterward lectures him about his lack of "the will to win." He reads Slater's casual attitude toward competition, his quiet, modest manner and his ironic sense of humor as signs of weakness.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1996-02-08/film.html   (860 words)

  
 No. 1 Florida loses to Auburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Gators had won seven straight meetings since then.
Florida Field Goal - 45-yarder by Jeff Chandler.
Florida Field Goal - 32-yarder by Jeff Chandler.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2001/10/14/spt_florida_loses.html   (893 words)

  
 Info Chapter 011
The series was based upon the real life experiences of the real Tom Mix who led the live of soldier of fortune, one of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, and fought in both the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion.
The other series from 1952 lasted only until 1953 was the syndicated program FRONTIER TOWN.
Starring Jeff Chandler in the first 23 programs and Reed Hadley for the balance of the 47 scripts as Chad Remington, a frontier lawyer.
www.audio-classics.com /chapter011.html   (1638 words)

  
 Cuba Tourtist Magazine - CUBA AIRGUIDE 1954 - Miss Cuba 1954
The Kid was applauded but rather as Cuba's top boxer than as a dancer; the rest of the group drew little applause and box-office returns left much to be desired.
During her stay in California a car will be placed at her disposal, and she will receive a generous allowance for incidental expenses.
PHOTO Kinuko Ito (Miss Japan) gets a warm welcome from film stars Piper Laurie and Jeff Chandler upon arrival at Universal-International Studios which hosted 68 world Beauty Queens at dinner and studio tour.
cuban-exile.com /doc_226-250/doc0231.html   (4567 words)

  
 Boy Severely Bitten by Dog [Pitbull Alert]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
9 posted on 09/10/2003 11:13:03 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This tagline has been suspended or banned.)
Anybody who has ever owned a pit bull know there not a dog of peace, I would never say that.
12 posted on 09/10/2003 11:14:18 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This tagline has been suspended or banned.)
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/979734/posts   (2339 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports
from left, Jeff Chandler of Philadelphia, Carl "Bobo" Olson of Hawaii,
Tito Lectoure of Argentina and Ken Buchanan of Scotland, pose
The 72-year-old Olson, Hawaii's first boxer among the hall's 220 members, compiled a 98-16-2 record, with 48 knockouts, before retiring in 1966.
starbulletin.com /2000/06/12/sports/story2.html   (432 words)

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