1. Salvatore Lazzara, better known by his boxing alias Joe Dundee, was an American boxer.
28 Facts About Joe Dundee
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Joe Dundee was the brother of Middleweight Champion Vince Dundee.
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Joe Dundee was the older brother of former middleweight world champion of boxing, Vince Dundee.
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Joe Dundee was born Salvatore Lazzara in Palermo, Sicily, Italy on August 16,1903.
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Joe Dundee was tutored at St Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore, where his family moved when he was a young boy.
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Joe Dundee began professional boxing in 1919 in Baltimore, In an important early career loss, Joe Dundee was disqualified in a match with former world bantamweight champion Kid Williams on September 4,1922, in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Joe Dundee frequently fought on offense against Tendler, staggering him at times with a stunning right.
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Joe Dundee defeated Jewish Brooklyn-based boxer George Levine in a ten round points decision at Madison Square Garden on May 8,1926.
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Joe Dundee decisively defeated former world welterweight champion Mickey Walker on June 24,1926, in an eighth round technical knockout before 15,000 at New York's Madison Square Garden.
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Joe Dundee aimed frequently at an injured eye, which Walker had gotten in training prior to the match.
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Joe Dundee was given seven rounds, with two to Zivic, and one even.
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Joe Dundee boxed carefully against a well known opponent, delivering hard rights to the body, and left hooks to the jaw.
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Joe Dundee fought through the frequent clinches of Zivic, and fought in close when necessary on the breaks.
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Joe Dundee defeated Pete Latzo for the world welterweight title on June 3,1927, at New York's Polo Grounds, winning in a fifteen round majority decision before one of his largest audiences, an impressive crowd of 30,000.
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Joe Dundee fought a peculiar bout with former world light welterweight champion Pinky Mitchell on August 11,1927, in Milwaukee that was declared a No Contest, and discontinued in the sixth round for stalling.
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Joe Dundee lost to future welterweight champion Jack Thompson on August 30,1928, in a second round technical knockout at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
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On March 21,1929, Joe Dundee was stripped of his NBA world welterweight title for refusing to fight top contenders Jack Thompson or Jackie Fields.
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Joe Dundee was not considered to have fully lost the title until his bout with Jackie Fields.
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On July 25,1929, Joe Dundee faced Jackie Fields before a crowd of 25,000 in a unifying match for the welterweight championship in Detroit, and a chance to reclaim his title.
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Fields was awarded the fight in the second round after Joe Dundee, having been knocked down four times, delivered a foul blow while still down which left put fields down on the mat in pain, and incapable of continuing the fight.
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Joe Dundee claimed that the foul was unintentional but some boxing historians has since speculated otherwise, even considering it part of a fix.
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Fields stated he believed Joe Dundee, but noted that it was the only bout he had ever won on a foul.
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Joe Dundee defeated Bert Colima on October 13,1929, for the Mexican welterweight title in a ten round points decision in Mexico City before an exceptional crowd of 20,000.
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Joe Dundee was down for a count of nine in the second, and Colima was down twice in the sixth, once for a count of eight.
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Joe Dundee dominated the later rounds, but could not find a knockout punch.
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In one of his last career fights on May 28,1930, Joe Dundee decisively defeated British lightweight champion Harry Mason in a ten round points decision at Madison Square Garden before a modest crowd of 5,000.
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Joe Dundee was inducted into the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1959.
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Joe Dundee died on March 31,1982, at Manor Care Townson Nursing Home in Baltimore, and was buried in The Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery.