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Boxing contract of Jimmy Wilde
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Boxing contract of Jimmy Wilde

  • NLW ex 3080
  • File
  • 1923

An agreement with American manager and promoter, Tom O'Rourke, the contract dated 1923 and relating to Jimmy Wilde's defeated challenge against Pancho Villa (or Frankie Genaro. The bout was Jimmy Wilde's unsuccessful return from retirement, held in New York. Former ownership of contemporaneous Welsh boxer Stan Roberts, by descent, private collection Caerphilly.

O'Rourke, Tom, 1856-1936