Per wikitree.com, this week's Featured Connections are boxers, whether real b oxers, or
actors who played a boxer in a movie.
I am:
30 degrees from Carl Weathers
20 degrees from Sylvester Stallone
18 degrees from Laila Ali
17 degrees from Muhammad Ali
23 degrees from Les Darcy, an Australian boxing champion
19 degrees from Jack Dempsey
21 degrees from John Douglas, known for lending his name to the "Queensberry Rules"
that form the basis of modern boxing
23 degrees from Jack Johnson, the first Black world heavyweight boxing champion 24 degrees from Jimmy McLarnin, held a record of 63 wins (20 KO, 42 decision, 1 foul),
and 14 losses (3 draws, 10 decision, 1 KO)
29 degrees from Lionel Rose, the first Indigenous Australian to win a world boxing
championship
21 degrees from Gene Tunney, held the world heavyweight title from 1926 to 1928.
28 degrees from Bep van Klaveren, from 1927-29, won three titles as a featherweight.
It is always interesting to visit the past to see how we are related to each other. I have
some ancestors that were black, bank robbers, politicians, physicians, detectives, actors,
comedians. I guess that I am a collection of all of them, as we ALL are. WikiTree.com
helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters.
If you would like to find your connections to famous people, you can start by giving me
some basic information by going to:
https://www.hobbyline.com/genealogy_web_design.htm and click on the 'Request Form'
link.
I have researched the ancestry for many persons interested in their family history.
Mike Dippel
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