1. Pete Sanstol was a Norwegian-American professional boxer who took the Canadian version of the World Bantamweight Championship in Montreal in 1931 against Archie Bell.
37 Facts About Pete Sanstol
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Pete Sanstol contended twice unsuccessfully for the NBA World Bantamweight Title, and was a class of 2000 World Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.
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Pete Sanstol moved to Stavanger with his parents as a child.
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On July 13,1926 Pete Sanstol defeated Harry Stein, than the Flyweight Champion of Germany, in Berlin at Luna Park in a four-round newspaper decision.
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The source, BOX-SPORT reported that Pete Sanstol won the decision decisively.
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On October 22,1930, Pete Sanstol fought a tough ten-round draw against Joey Scalfano at Madison Square Garden that was "nip and tuck for the entire ten rounds", and a great crowd pleaser.
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Pete Sanstol later described it as one of his toughest fights.
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Pete Sanstol had previously lost to Scalfaro on August 6,1930 at Madison Square Garden in a ten-round points decision.
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On May 20,1931, in his most important bout, Pete Sanstol won the World Bantamweight Title in a ten-round unanimous decision against the great New York Jewish contender Archie Bell in Montreal.
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On June 17,1931, Pete Sanstol defeated Art Giroux, of Montreal, in the Canadian version of a World Bantamweight Title.
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On July 29,1931, again at the Forum in Montreal, Pete Sanstol defeated Eugene Huat in a ten-round Unanimous Decision in his second defense of the Canadian version of the World Bantamweight Title.
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The final decision for Pete Sanstol was not entirely popular with the crowd.
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Pete Sanstol lost the bout in a close fifteen round split decision.
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Pete Sanstol fought much of the bout in a crouch, to compensate for a six-inch disadvantage in height and reach.
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On July 20,1932 Pete Sanstol fought a ten-round draw with 1929 NBA World Flyweight Champion Emille "Spider" Pladner, a French born boxer, at the Forum in Montreal, Canada.
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On September 1,1934, Pete Sanstol defeated World Champion Victor "Young" Perez at Bislet Stadium in Oslo in a ten-round points decision.
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Pete Sanstol retired from boxing in late 1933, fighting only one bout in 1934, and then resumed his boxing in Sweden in 1935.
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Pete Sanstol won a ten-round points decision in Berlin against Hans Schiller, former German Featherweight Champion, on May 10,1935.
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Pete Sanstol lost the bout in a twelve-round unanimous decision, that was not particularly close, though quite satisfying to the crowd.
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Pete Sanstol had one more career bout of consequence, on September 13,1935, defeating Al Brown in Oslo in a ten-round non-title decision a month after the Escobar fight, not long before his retirement.
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Pete Sanstol joined the US Army Air Corp on April 3,1942.
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Pete Sanstol served a total of three years and two months.
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Pete Sanstol became a US citizen, a privilege he had long awaited, in 1943 during his service with the Army.
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Pete Sanstol was known for his aggression, energy, speed, amazing stamina and uncanny defense.
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Pete Sanstol was known for his ability to give the crowd a thrilling show.
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Pete Sanstol first flashed on the Montreal fistic horizon half a dozen years ago.
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In those days Pete Sanstol was a bewildering bundle of speed and energy.
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Pete Sanstol threw his endless energy to the winds with complete abandon.
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Pete Sanstol was a profligate spendthrift of energy and strength, of nerve force.
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Pete Sanstol had all the carelessness of youth about vitality as expended in the ring.
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Pete Sanstol ducked like lightning, weaved, bobbed, always going at top speed, a master-boxer in his own fashion, a fashion founded on speed and stamina.
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Today Pete Sanstol is inclined to save his legs, to some degree, and to employ instead the ring-craft he has acquired in nearly ten years of campaigning up and down the fistic lanes of two continents.
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Pete Sanstol will be doing more of the bobbing and ducking and swinging from the hips, with which he used to delight crowds and bewilder his opponents.
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Pete Sanstol married Bessie Andrews Marshal in Seattle on August 24,1956.
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Pete Sanstol was in demand, often telling stories of his boxing days, and speaking to groups.
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In 1960, Pete Sanstol moved back to the West Coast of the United States with his wife, taking a job in Long Beach, California, as a translator for a shipping company.
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Pete Sanstol died in 1982 in Whittier, California after a series of strokes.