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George Dixon won the world featherweight title more than 50 years before Jackie Robinson played Major League baseball.

Quite the anomaly he was for those times. First African descended world champion in history at a time when it was unheard of. His incomplete record at boxrec does him no justice at all. He most likely fought between 400 and 600 times. Pity how he ended up. Him and Langford are probably the best fighters my country ever produced.

At whats with Boston? Both him and Sammy ended up there along with many other Canucks. Maybe its proximity to Nova Scotia?
A lot of these posts are like classes for me: Dixon; another forgotten great I need to learn about.