26 Facts About Jimmy Reagan

Jimmy Reagan was an American boxer who claimed the World Bantamweight Championship in a twelve-round bout on January 29,1909 against Jimmy Walsh at Dreamland Rink in San Francisco, California.

Jimmy Reagan lost the title only a month later in an historic twenty round bout on February 22,1909 to Monte Attell at the Mission Street Arena in San Francisco.

The Evening standard stated in October 1910 that Reagan was 21 years old.

Jimmy Reagan was born of both Irish and Italian descent, with his father being Irish, and his mother Italian.

Jimmy Reagan began fighting professionally around late 1907 in the Oakland, California area, and won all but two of his first nine fights in the following year, primarily in short four and six round bouts.

Ritchie was one of the most accomplished opponents Jimmy Reagan would meet in his early career and would hold the World Lightweight Title from 1912 to 1914.

Jimmy Reagan met Monte Attell for the first time on November 30,1908 in an important fifteen-round draw at the Dreamland Pavilion in Oakland.

Joe Woodman, Walsh's manager, admitted that Walsh had been beaten in eight of the twelve rounds, though it was a surprise to much of the audience who believed that Jimmy Reagan had been overmatched with Walsh in the days before the fight.

Walsh was considered to have a more clever boxing form and finesse, particularly in the early rounds, but Jimmy Reagan was the aggressor, delivering more blows, and taking the initiative in the final rounds.

Jimmy Reagan was down twice in the eighth, once for a nine count.

Jimmy Reagan knocked down Attell with a right to the jaw just as the bell sounded ending the sixth round, but Attell recovered, though dazed by the blow.

Jimmy Reagan was able to hold his title for only one month.

Jimmy Reagan trained at the Hermitage at Ogden Canyon for the well publicized bout, and told the press he would consider retiring if he lost the bout.

Apparently Jimmy Reagan was accurate in his belief that he had an edge in the match.

Jimmy Reagan worked out with the punching bag, skipping rope, medicine ball, and sand bag.

Jimmy Reagan took a "terrific beating" and was knocked down four times prior to the thirteenth round when he was knocked down twice more by Rivers before the fight was called by Referee Eyeton.

Jimmy Reagan would fight many of the top feather and lightweight boxers in the country.

Jimmy Reagan fought Monte Attell again in a draw bout on July 25,1911, at the Buffalo Athletic Club in Sacramento, California.

Jimmy Reagan fought "Chalky" Germaine twice, first on January 8,1912, in what was to be a ten-round bout at the Colonial Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Jimmy Reagan was having trouble making the 122 pound limit for the bout.

Jimmy Reagan met Germaine again on July 24,1912 in Price, Utah, in a 20-round draw.

Jimmy Reagan defeated Tally Johns on September 4,1912, at the Salt Lake Theatre in Salt Lake City, Utah, in an uncharacteristic fourteenth-round TKO of a twenty-round match.

Jimmy Reagan was described as the aggressor throughout the bout, but not a single knockdown of either boxer occurred in the fight.

The Des Moines Register considered the fact that Jimmy Reagan had gone ten rounds without being knocked out by the extraordinary champion a remarkable accomplishment.

Jimmy Reagan lost to Neal Allison January 15,1918 at the Waterloo Theatre in Waterloo, Iowa in a ten-round newspaper decision.

Jimmy Reagan was characterized as a boxer who lacked great scientific boxing skills, being rather "a scrapper of the give and take variety, who relied on his ability to "give and take punishment to bring.