Boxing Exhibit

Credentials issued to J. Russell Peltz

Alfredo Escalera defended his super featherweight championship by defeating Tyrone Everett in 1976 in a highly controversial split decision. A rematch was being negotiated when Everett was murdered.

Ring Magazine’s editor/publisher Nate Fleisher called Tendler the “greatest southpaw in ring history”

Called the greatest southpaw boxer who ever lived, Lew Tendler was also known as the “boxing newsboy”

Allentown Evening Chronicle features a story on visit from boxing champion