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Lionel RoseMBE. 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 · Lionel Rose (born June 21, 1948, Labertouche, Victoria, Australia—died May 8, 2011, Warragul, Victoria) was an Australian professional boxer, world bantamweight champion, 1968–69. He was the first Aboriginal person to win a world boxing title. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) Rose was age 16 when he made his ...
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 ...
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, had ...
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May 8, 2011 · 8 May 2011. Lionel Rose was the first Aborigine to be named "Australian of the year". Lionel Rose, the first Australian Aboriginal boxer to win a world title, has died at the age of 62. Rose, who ...
Lionel Edmund Rose (1948–2011) Lionel Rose, by Hank Brusse, 1968. National Archives of Australia, L71429. 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.
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