Jackie Fields
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| Rated at | Welterweight | ||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m) | ||||||||||||
| Reach | 69 in (175 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Born | Jacob Finkelstein February 9, 1908 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Died | June 3, 1987 (aged 79) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Total fights | 84 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 72 | ||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 31 | ||||||||||||
| Losses | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Draws | 2 | ||||||||||||
| No contests | 1 | ||||||||||||
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Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein, February 9, 1908 – June 3, 1987) was an American professional boxer who won the World Welterweight Championship twice. Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Fields as the #19 ranked welterweight of all-time. Fields was elected to the United Savings-Helms Hall of Boxing Fame in 1972, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1979, the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1987, and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004.
Jackie Fields, who was Jewish, was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA on February 9, 1908 under the name Jacob Finkelstein. He was married on August 12, 1931. The couple separated in December 1940 and his wife, Martha, was granted a divorce in May 1944. Fields died in 1987 at the age of 79 in Los Angeles, California in the United States. At the time he was part owner of the Tropicana Hotel.
Over the course of Field's amateur career, he participated in 54 fights, winning 51 of them. During the 1924 Summer Olympics, Fields won a gold medal in the featherweight division. He was 16 years old.
Competing as a welterweight, Fields won the 1929 and 1932 championship titles.
On July 25, 1929 Fields faced Joe Dundee in a match for the welterweight championship. Fields was awarded the fight in the second round after Dundee, having been knocked down twice, delivered a foul blow which left Fields incapable of continuing the fight. Dundee, who had taken a $50,000 advance to participate in the fight, claimed that the foul was unintentional. Fields stated he believed Dundee, but noted that it was the only bout he had ever won on a foul.
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