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Lionel Edmund Rose MBE (21 June 1948 – 8 May 2011) was an Australian professional boxer who competed from 1964 to 1976. He held the undisputed WBA, WBC, and The Ring bantamweight titles from 1968 to 1969, becoming the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.
Apr 25, 2024 · Biography of Lionel Rose, Australian boxer who was the first Aboriginal person to win a professional world boxing championship. He was the world bantamweight champion from 1968 to 1969. When he retired in 1976, he had a career record of 42 wins (12 by knockout) and 11 losses.
May 8, 2011 · Legendary Australian boxer Lionel Rose has died aged 62. Rose had been ill for several months and suffered a stroke in 2007 that left him partially paralysed with speech difficulties. He beat Japan's Fighting Harada in 1968 to win the world bantamweight title and became the first Indigenous boxer to win a world title.
May 8, 2011 · Lionel Rose, the first Australian Aboriginal boxer to win a world title, has died at the age of 62. Rose, who beat Japan's Fighting Harada in Tokyo in 1968 to win the world bantamweight title,...
Feb 27, 2023 · Lionel Rose (born June 21, 1948) was an Australian boxer who became the first aborigine in boxing history to win a world title. Rose grew up learning how to box while watching his father, also a professional boxer. He barely missed the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
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Rose was a fast and tough fighter, possessing sharp lefts, and was a fine counter-puncher. He won the ABC Sportsman of the Year Award in 1968, and became a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1968. He was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1995.
May 9, 2011 · LIONEL Rose, who died yesterday aged 62, was not the first Australian world boxing champion and other champs retired with better records. But those who know boxing will tell you there was nothing sweeter than watching Rose, the first Aborigine to win a world title, throw his own unique combination of triple left hooks.
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