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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.
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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.
Lionel Rose was a professional boxer from Australia who won the world bantamweight boxing championship in 1968. He became the first Aboriginal or Indigenous Australian to win a world boxing title. As a child, he grew up amidst hardships, staying in a single-roomed hut with his large family.
PUBLICATION: Lionel Rose: Australian, The Life Story of a Champion, as Told to Rod Humphries, Angus and Robertson, 1969. NAME: Lionel Rose. SEX: Male. BIRTH DATE: 21 June 1948. BIRTH PLACE: Jackson Track (Labertouche), South Eastern Victoria. FIRST LANGUAGE: English. SIGNIFICANT LOCALITIES:
Lionel Rose was born June 21, 1948, and raised in Jackson's Track, a poor aboriginal settlement 50 miles south of Melbourne. The oldest of nine children in an aboriginal family, Rose was on the wrong side of a society divided by racism, mistrust, and economic disparity.
Apr 3, 2020 · A profile of legendary indigenous Australian boxer and former world bantamweight champion, Lionel Rose.Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-3-6gA5i...
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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.
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