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Originally Posted by Cap
Bear, I've read that bit before about boxing being banned in Chicago because of the Gans-McGovern fight in 1900. I know of three fights involving Tommy Burns that took place in Chicago in 1904. I'm sure there were others. The author of the recent Sam Langford bio repeated this story about the ban. But then he also glossed over the multi-state ban on mixed fights circa 1911.
Cap
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I didn't want to mention the colour bar, Cap, but that was an unfortunate fact of that era. Jack Skelly's 1892 bout vs. George Dixon was, if memory serves, the last mixed bout in New Orleans until the late '50s or early '60s.
The colour bar was even more notorius in the HW division, as w eknow.