boxing Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/boxing/ Everything about the Deaf Community! Wed, 20 Nov 2019 04:27:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://deafniche.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/cropped-logo_gigantic_png-32x32.png boxing Archives - DeafNiche https://deafniche.com/tag/boxing/ 32 32 Did you know James “Deaf” Burke is in the Boxing Hall of Fame for being the first British boxer to fight in the USA? https://deafniche.com/deafburke/ Sun, 20 Mar 2016 08:13:23 +0000 http://blog.deafniche.com/?p=8996 People said that he was deaf because sound was too scared to go near him! James “Deaf” Burke was born deaf and all his life was a humble laborer in London, training in his free time. He became so strong that the champion at the time, Jem Ward, refused to fight him out of fear […]

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