1. Joseph Marceline Mandot known as Baker Boy, was a young featherweight boxer and an accomplished contender for both the world lightweight championship in 1912 and the world welterweight championship in 1915.
43 Facts About Joe Mandot
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Joe Mandot fought five world champions in the WWI boxing era, defeating or giving close bouts to each.
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Joe Mandot was managed in his early career by Billy Walsh, and for a time by Blacky Raggio.
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Joe Mandot was born on August 3,1889, in New Orleans, and worked for a period as a baker prior to his boxing career.
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Joe Mandot's father owned a bakery in the New Orleans' French quarter, and his brother worked as a baker as well.
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Joe Mandot knocked White to the canvas in both the second and seventh rounds.
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Joe Mandot defeated former Canadian lightweight champion Billy Allen on January 18,1912, decisively in an eight round points decision in Memphis.
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Joe Mandot defeated Philadelphia Pal Moore on February 20,1912, in a ten round points decision in New Orleans.
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Joe Mandot marked the Philadelphia boxer's face and nearly closed his left eye.
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Joe Mandot scored more often in the infighting and landed frequently to Mandot's midsection.
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Joe Mandot won an eight round points decision with Owen Moran on April 1,1912.
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Joe Mandot was down for a long count in the second, but carried the fight to the Englishman for the remainder of the match, scoring a comfortable lead in points by the eighth.
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Joe Mandot forced the fight after the second round with little or no counterpunching from Moran.
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On June 24,1912, Joe Mandot drew with future holder of the world lightweight championship, Willie Ritchie, in a ten round newspaper decision in New Orleans.
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New Orleans' Times Democrat wrote that Ritchie had the lead in the last three rounds, and since Joe Mandot was down twice in the tenth, Ritchie deserved the decision.
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The New Orleans Daily Picayune, however wrote that Joe Mandot had a solid lead going into the ninth, and that Ritchie's performance in the tenth merited only a draw, though the referee, who was satisfied with the draw ruling, believed Joe Mandot still held a slight lead after the tenth.
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The New York Daily wrote that Joe Mandot had the better of all but three rounds and won the decision by a wide margin.
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Joe Mandot penetrated Rivers's defense, landing straight lefts almost continuously.
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Joe Mandot contended for the world lightweight title against Ad Wolgast on November 4,1912, drawing in a ten round newspaper decision in New Orleans.
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Joe Mandot performed well in the first eight rounds, flooring Cross for no-counts in the fourth and fifth rounds.
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Joe Mandot lost in a close bout to future lightweight champion English boxer Freddie Welsh on May 25,1914, in a ten round newspaper decision at Pelican Stadium in New Orleans.
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The Los Angeles Times, which believed Dundee won by a shade, admitted that Joe Mandot won at long range in the majority of the rounds, but that Dundee fought better in the clinches.
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The Times gave Dundee the fourth through eighth by a slight margin, with Joe Mandot taking the third, ninth and tenth.
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Joe Mandot defeated future world featherweight champion Johnny Kilbane on December 7,1914, in a very close newspaper decision.
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The Boston Globe wrote that Joe Mandot was fresher at the end of the rough match, and his face was unmarked.
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Joe Mandot drew in eight rounds with Jewish lightweight contender Frankie Callahan on December 14,1914, in an eight round points decision in Memphis.
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The Los Angeles Times wrote that Joe Mandot deserved the decision and that he had Callahan close to a knockout in the sixth, seventh, and eighth rounds, staggering him repeatedly.
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Lewis had a clear victory, dominating at both long range and infighting, though Joe Mandot stood up to the punishment and kept several rounds even.
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Joe Mandot fell to the incomparable future world lightweight champion Benny Leonard on December 17,1915, in a seventh round knockout in New York.
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When Joe Mandot rushed in the seventh, Leonard's straight left followed by a right cross to the jaw nearly ended the skillfully fought battle.
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Joe Mandot rose to continue and was met with a final onslaught of blows from his challenger.
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Joe Mandot had taken a strong lead in every round and Thomas was helpless by the tenth when the referee stopped the bout.
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Joe Mandot lost to the less experienced Pal Moran on December 2,1918, in a fifteen round points decision at the Tulane Arena in New Orleans.
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Joe Mandot was soundly defeated and was down in the fourth round.
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Joe Mandot had drawn with Moran in a fifteen round points decision on July 15,1918, at the Tulane Arena in a bout that was billed as a "Southern lightweight championship" and used a three judge system.
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In one of his last known bouts, Joe Mandot lost to Phil Virgets in a thirteen round technical knockout in New Orleans on November 21,1921.
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Joe Mandot had previously drawn with Virgets the previous month in New Orleans in a ten round points decision.
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Joe Mandot had worked as a manager, and owned his own gym, and was considering retirement from work at his gymnasium by 1922.
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Joe Mandot continued to earn income owning race horses through at least 1931.
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Joe Mandot had a few real estate ventures in New Orleans, and owned interest in a bakery, where he worked at times, celebrating his 50th birthday by working there a full day.
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Joe Mandot owned both a tavern which failed, and a small eating house in New Orleans.
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Joe Mandot spent his later years cutting grass, and working as a messenger for New Orleans's Fair Grounds Racecourse.
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Joe Mandot died around July 29,1956, in New Orleans by jumping off a bridge over Bayou St John in what was ruled a suicide attempt as a weight was found attached to his waist.