1. Joe Glick was an American boxer from Brooklyn who established himself early as a top contender among junior lightweights.
22 Facts About Joe Glick
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Joe Glick was born in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, on February 22,1903, and began training as a boxer in his teens.
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Joe Glick worked as a tailor prior to his boxing career.
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Joe Glick lost only two of his better publicized fights in 1922, setting an exceptional early fight record.
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Joe Glick had only two additional losses in 1923, as the quality of his competition continued to steadily improve.
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At 23, in a ten-round bout on January 29,1926, Glick defeated Johnny Dundee, the former 1923 Featherweight and Junior Lightweight champion who was nearing the end of an exceptional career.
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Joe Glick lost the bout as a result of punching Morgan below the belt in the fourteenth round.
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Joe Glick began the first with a strong and effective attack against Morgan.
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Joe Glick was first warned of a low blow in the third round, and had lost previous fights to low blows.
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In between these two bouts with Morgan between January 1926 and December 1927, Joe Glick stayed busy fighting exceptional boxers including Benny Bass and Jack Bernstein.
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Joe Glick was unable to beat Bass in his three meetings, but did obtain one no decision.
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Oddly, Joe Glick was suspended for a full year from boxing by the Philadelphia Boxing Commission for stalling during his bout with Al Gordon in Philadelphia on February 13,1928.
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The suspension applied only to Philadelphia, and Joe Glick fought extensively in New York and New Jersey the remainder of the year, meeting elite lightweights.
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The United Press expressed distaste in the quality of the match, though the local New York Times was quite impressed with the quality of Joe Glick's fighting, and the crowd ardently supported the ten round points decision in favor of Joe Glick, the New York native.
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In January and March 1929, Joe Glick faced the exceptional Jimmy McLarnin, a former Lightweight champion, but lost to him in both bouts.
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Joe Glick lost to Louis "Kid Kaplan," former Featherweight champion, in April 1929.
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In 1930, Joe Glick fought Tony Canzoneri, former World Featherweight champion, and hall of famer Jackie "Kid" Berg, Featherweight World Champion from 1930 to 1931.
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In 1933, Joe Glick appeared briefly on screen in 20th Century Pictures' The Bowery.
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The film starred actors Wallace Beery and Fay Ray, and Joe Glick appeared with ex-Middleweight World Champion Al McCoy, as well as boxers Jim Flynn, Phil Bloom, Frank Moran, British boxer William Thomas, known as "Kid Broad," Jack Herrick and Abe Hollandersky.
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Joe Glick appeared briefly in the 1933 Paramount Productions's, Tillie and Gus, an adventure film about the purchase of a ferry boat, the Fairy Queen.
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In 1938, Joe Glick played an extra in MGM's The Crowd Roars.
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Joe Glick died on September 5,1978, in Woodland Hills, a suburb of Los Angeles, California.