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See also: Carpentier
Georges Carpentier is a Boxe ur professional French, born with Liévin the January 12th 1894
After having begun boxing at the 14 years age in 1908 (and already world champion amateur the December 4th), he becomes champion of France welterweights (or welter-weight) in 1911 at 17 years, then of Europe the October 23rd of the same year with London in the category of the welterweights! The European title of the average weights falls into its escarcelle February 29th 1912 to Monte Carlo, and that all categories (heavy) the 1 {{er}} June 1913 with Ghent.
During the First World War, it is useful in the air force and receives the Military Cross and the Military decoration. It is wounded at the end of 18 months and reinstates the civil life where it takes again its career of boxer.
It fights in practically all the categories and becomes world champion of cruiser-weight the October 12th 1920 with Jersey City (the United States) by putting KB Battling Levinsky. He becomes thus first French world champion of English boxing. For the world title of the heavy trucks (all categories), it fails the July 2nd 1921 vis-a-vis Jack Dempsey to which it returns 12 kg and 6 cm - which will become thereafter one of his/her best friends - in a match of the century which will be worth nevertheless a world famous to him, because it lost because of an unusable right hand following a fracture as of the 2nd round.
It withdraws competition the September 15th 1926 and dies in Paris the October 28th 1975 (Marcel Cerdan also died an October 28th).
To see its autobiography My 80 rounds , with Commercial Jacques, ED. Olivier Orban, 1975.
In short: 106 English boxing matches, including 85 victories, 5 null, 15 defeats, and 1 not-decision.
He was elected with the Boxing Hall off Famed in 1964.
A silent film, the Novel of Carpentier , leaves in 1913. It presents a fictionalized version of its career.
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