1. Max Everitt Rosenbloom was an American professional boxer, actor, and television personality.
18 Facts About Maxie Rosenbloom
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Maxie Rosenbloom was sometimes billed as Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom for film appearances.
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Maxie Rosenbloom was very difficult to hit cleanly with a power punch and his fights often went the full number of required rounds.
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Maxie Rosenbloom was probably the cleverest fighter I've ever seen, defensively.
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Maxie Rosenbloom developed a sort of a radar, a sense of anticipation of blows, and ability to react to that, and act on it.
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On June 25,1930, Maxie Rosenbloom won the NYSAC and vacant Ring Magazine light heavyweight titles when he faced off against Jimmy Slattery at Bison Stadium for the undisputed title.
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Slattery, being the reigning NYSAC champion and Maxie Rosenbloom being listed by some sources as the incumbent NBA light heavyweight champion.
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Maxie Rosenbloom reigned as the NYSAC and Ring magazine champion until he was defeated by Bob Olin on November 16,1934.
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On June 6,1931, Maxie Rosenbloom was stripped for failing to defend the title in a timely manner.
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Maxie Rosenbloom was stripped by the National Boxing Association on September 17,1934, during their annual meeting.
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In 1937, two years before he announced his permanent retirement from boxing, Maxie Rosenbloom accepted a role in a Hollywood film.
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Maxie Rosenbloom became a character actor, usually portraying comical or sympathetic "big guys" in movies such as Each Dawn I Die starring James Cagney and George Raft.
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Maxie Rosenbloom continued acting in films as well as on radio and television, where he again portrayed big, clumsy, often punch-drunk-but-lovable characters.
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In 1955 Maxie Rosenbloom was featured in Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops.
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Maxie Rosenbloom appeared as himself in a number of radio episodes of The Fred Allen Show, including in a skit with Marlene Dietrich.
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Maxie Rosenbloom was cast in an important part in television's first 90-minute drama, Requiem for a Heavyweight.
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Maxie Rosenbloom portrays a character whose life revolves around his retelling old boxing stories night after night to other ex-boxers who gather in a down-and-out bar.
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Maxie Rosenbloom's gravesite is at the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, California.