JIMMY WILDE WORLD BOXING CHAMP. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH.
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A clear signed black/white photograph of the world fly weight boxing champion. Measures 13 x 10 cm. Original autograph and not a copy or preprint. Jimmy Wilde (15 May 1892 - 10 March 1969), was a British world boxing champion from Wales . Jimmy Wilde was the first official world flyweight champion and was rated by American boxing writer Nat Fleischer , as well as many other professionals and fans including former boxer, trainer, manager and promoter, Charley 'Broadway' Rose, as "the greatest flyweight ever". Wilde earned various nicknames such as, "The Mighty Atom", "Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand" and "The Tylorstown Terror". [1 ] Early years Jimmy Wilde's birth certificate shows he was born in the Taff Bargoed Valley community of Pentwyn Deintyr ) (now known as the Graig), Quakers Yard , Treharris , in the county borough of Merthyr Tydfil but his parents later moved to the village of Tylorstown in the Rhondda Valley when Wilde was twelve years old. [2 ] Wilde was the son of a coal miner, who himself worked in the coal pits. Wilde was small enough to crawl through gullies impassable to most of his colleagues. Wilde first fought at the age of sixteen in fairground boxing booths, where crowds were amazed by his toughness and ability to knock down much larger opponents, most of which were local toughmen weighing around 200 lbs.
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