1. Joseph Bartlett Choynski was an American boxer who fought professionally from 1888 to 1904.
11 Facts About Joe Choynski
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Joe Choynski was considered a heavy puncher and a dangerous fighter.
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Corbett had apparently hurt his hand, and Joe Choynski learned of the injury.
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Accordingly, Joe Choynski "forgot" to bring his gloves to the match, thereby hoping the fight would proceed as a bare-knuckle bout.
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Corbett declined to fight bare-knuckle, but agreed to allow Joe Choynski to wear leather riding gloves borrowed from a spectator.
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Joe Choynski then began to train Johnson, helping the younger man develop the style that enabled him to become world champion.
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Joe Choynski fought six-round draws with two other men who later claimed the heavyweight championship of the world: Bob Fitzsimmons on June 17,1894, and Marvin Hart on November 16,1903.
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Joe Choynski was born in San Francisco to a Jewish family, the son of Harriet and Isidor Nathan Joe Choynski.
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Joe Choynski had 4 siblings, Herbert, Miriam, Maurice, and Edwin.
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In 1895, Joe Choynski married Louise Anderson Miller, an actress, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Joe Choynski, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1991.