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    professionally known as Dick Tiger was a Nigerian professional boxer who held the undisputed middleweight and light-heavyweight championships. Tiger emigrated to...
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  • Tiger is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Dana Tiger (born 1961), Muscogee/Seminole/Cherokee artist Dick Tiger (1929–1971), Nigerian boxer...
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    Three years later, on April 25, 1966, he faced middleweight champion Dick Tiger and won a 15-round unanimous decision and the middleweight title. He also...
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    by unanimous decision. Fullmer finally lost the middleweight title to Dick Tiger on October 23, 1962, in a unanimous decision. They fought a rematch on...
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  • lower weights, were middleweights Emile Griffith, Nino Benvenuti and Dick Tiger, and lightweights Joe Brown, Carlos Ortiz and Ismael Laguna as also bantamweight...
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  • it to another Hall Of Fame member, Nigeria's Dick Tiger, by a decision in 15 rounds. In 1967, he and Tiger had a rematch, with Torres losing a 15-round...
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    for the world middleweight title. On December 7, 1963, Giardello faced Dick Tiger in Atlantic City for the title and won a controversial decision in 15...
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    heavyweight and heavyweight. He won the world light heavyweight title from Dick Tiger in 1968 via fourth-round knockout, and went on to defend the title fourteen...
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  • Patterson (2) 1961: Joe Brown 1962: Dick Tiger 1963: Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) 1964: Emile Griffith 1965: Dick Tiger (2) 1966: Muhammad Ali (2) (originally...
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  • for Dick by unanimous decision. The bout was later awarded the Ring Magazine's 'Fight of the Year' for 1968. Although DePaula's bout with Dick Tiger had...
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