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unusual facts about Light-Middleweight



Ad Santel

Santel lost his World Light Heavyweight Championship to Gobar Goho of Calcutta (now Kolkata), India on 30 August 1921 in San Francisco.

Bart Dickon

This nods in the direction of the original daily Dick Barton radio series on the BBC Light Programme from 1946-1951 (later in novels and a trio of low budget feature films), although the spelling of the original character, Snowey, has been changed - as has his gender from time to time.

Bracken County, Kentucky

White burley tobacco, a light, adaptable leaf that revolutionized the industry, was first sold at the 1867 St. Louis Fair by the farmer Mr. Webb from Higginsport, Ohio.

Bryza

PZL M28B Bryza - a Polish STOL light maritime patrol, cargo and passenger plane

Carol Windley

Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light (1993) won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English Fiction and the 1994 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.

Color

After exposure to strong light in their sensitivity range, photoreceptors of a given type become desensitized.

ComputerWeekly.com

The site also features the light-hearted Downtime blog which includes a daily Dilbert.

Contardo Barbieri

He graduated from the Brera Academy in 1921 and in his youthful works he re-elaborated the late 19th-century Lombard figurative tradition, attracted by the researches into light and colour carried out by Emilio Gola, Daniele Ranzoni and Emilio Longoni.

Daníel Bjarnason

He has twice won awards at the Icelandic Music Awards—Best Composer/Best Composition, 2010 for Processions and Composer of the Year, 2013 for his works "The Isle Is Full of Noises" and "Over Light Earth." Also in 2013, he and Ben Frost won the Edda Award for best soundtrack for their score to the Baltasar Kormákur-directed film, The Deep.

David Carstens

He won the gold medal in the Light heavyweight competition in Los Angeles, beating Gino Rossi of Italy in the final match.

Deadly Towers

It is a pun of the word mashō (魔性), meaning "devilishness", and in keeping with this theme, the Japanese cartridge contained a red LED at the top which illuminated when turned on.

Flashkick

The term Flash Kick originated from a move performed by Guile from the Street Fighter video game series, in which a flash of light accompanied the move.

Gaslight

Gas lighting, the use of flammable gas such as natural gas as a light source

Gerry Preston

Preston trained many of New Zealand's most successful boxers, including heavyweight champions David Tua and Jimmy Thunder, and New Zealand professional middleweight champion of the 1970s Billy Opetaia.

HD 189733

HD 189733, also catalogued as V452 Vulpeculae, is a binary star system approximately 63 light-years away in the constellation of Vulpecula (the Fox).

Hessdalen light

The Hessdalen light is an unexplained light usually seen in the Hessdalen valley in the municipality of Holtålen in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway.

Hillberg

Hillberg Carbine, a light rifle concept for the US armed forces during WW2

Humber-class monitor

Designed for service on the Amazon River, the ships were of shallow draft and heavy armament and were ideally suited to inshore, riverine and coastal work but unsuitable for service at sea, where their weight and light draft reduced their speed from a projected twelve knots to under four.

I Am One

"I Am One" features a doubled guitar solo - a technique later used on Pumpkins songs like "Ava Adore", "Tarantula", and "Bring the Light".

John Crowder

He appears as a character in The Long Walk to Finchley, on Thatcher's selection to succeed him as Conservative candidate for his seat - he is played, in a less than flattering light, by Geoffrey Palmer.

Josephus on Jesus

In 1971, a 10th-century Arabic version of the Testimonium due to Agapius of Hierapolis was brought to light by Shlomo Pines who also discovered a 12th-century Syriac version of Josephus by Michael the Syrian.

Kelly Stables

Her two largest roles were in the Thousand Oaks Civic Light Opera's Peter Pan as Wendy, and in Sleeping Beauty as the title character.

Kevin Gaughan

Gaughan wrote At First Light: Strengthening Buffalo Niagara in the New Century which was published by the Canisius College Press in 2003.

Kimaris

KYMAVR may allude to "Khem-our" (black light), a form of Horus mentioned in H. P. Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine.

Kogarah, New South Wales

Commercial and light industrial developments are also located along the Princes Highway and Rocky Point Road.

Lesley Dill

In 2008, Dill conceived and directed a full-scale opera, “Divide Light,” based on the language of Emily Dickinson.

Mariana Levy

It is known for sure that she suffered a heart attack while stopped at a red light in the Mexico City neighborhood of Lomas de Chapultepec.

Marie Taylor

She briefly taught at Cardozo High School, and later started up summer science institutes for high school science teachers, bringing new methods of how to teach science, such as using light-microscopes to study cells.

Matt Light

In his senior season, 2000, Light earned first-team All-Big Ten recognition after starting 12 games at left tackle, helping an offensive line that gave up only seven sacks en route to a Big Ten title and Rose Bowl Game appearance.

Mr. America

Harmon Mister America, 1970s American single-seat light sports aircraft

Olhörn lighthouse

The automated lighthouse serves as a cross light for navigation in the Norderaue tidal channel between the mainland port of Dagebüll and the islands of Föhr and Amrum.

Portals network programming api

In light of emerging partitioned global address space (PGAS) languages, several new features have been added to the Portals API as part of Portals 4.

Ricky Bruch

As well as achieving his sporting career and his turbulent personal life, Bruch also acted in light-entertainment films, debuting in the Italian action comedy film Anche gli angeli tirano di destro and appearing in a minor role in the film version of Ronia the Robber's Daughter.

Rover Light Six

The act to promote the new Rover Light Six in a headline-grabbing campaign was the brainchild of former motorcycle tester and pioneer publicist Dudley Noble, in which a Light Six was to race the Blue Train across France from Calais to St Raphael on the Côte d'Azur.

Shuanggudui

Like Mawangdui and Guodian, two other tombs from the area of the old state of Chu, the Shuanggudui find has shed great light on the culture and practices of the early Han dynasty.

Siemens Viaggio Light

In February 2009, Ynet reported serious problems with the Viaggio Light model, including a longer stopping distance when traveling north, narrow doors and corridors, and problems with the Trainlift TR 450 technology.

Škoda 1202

The Škoda 1202 was a family car produced as a station wagon, light panel van and pick-up (Utility) by Czechoslovakian automaker AZNP at their subsidiary plant in Vrchlabí.

South Beach Tow

According to cast member Christie Ashenoff, the idea for the program came after Tremont towed the car of Simon Fields: "He tells us that a few days later a light bulb went off in his head that if he lost his mind, that everyone else must too".

Sovam

In 1964 the manufacturer introduced a “Véhicule Utilitaire de Livraison” (VUL/light delivery vehicle) which used a “fibre-glass” body mounted on the shortened chassis from a Renault 4.

Spatial cutoff frequency

If it were not for the effects of diffraction, a 2" aperture telescope could theoretically be used to read newspapers on a planet circling Alpha Centauri, over four light-years distant.

St. John's GAA

Probably the most famous player to have donned the famous light blue shirt is Shane Filan of Westlife, who has worn the shirt with pride down through the years.

The Reason 4

They also supported Peter Andre on a number of UK tour dates through the summer, played many light switch ons where they were joined on stage by Keith Lemon in Blackpool.

ThinCan

The tube came painted in one's choice of several transparent colors (black, dark blue, light blue, purple, red) for an authentic "Jetsons" feel.

Variobahn

In 1996, six trams were delivered to serve on the light rail between Mannheim, Heidelberg and Weinheim, Germany, operated by Oberrheinischen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft.

Virgil Lozano

In 2007 he became the Middleweight Champion and retained the belt until the promotion was terminated in 2008.

VTOL

The Yakovlev Yak-38 was a Soviet Navy VTOL aircraft intended for use aboard their light carriers, cargoships, and capital ships.

Walter B. Rogers

Their most successful recordings included "The Merry Widow Waltz" (from The Merry Widow, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1907), "The Glow-Worm" (from Paul Lincke's operetta Lysistrata, performed by the Victor Orchestra, 1908), and "The Yama Yama Man" (from The Three Twins, performed by Ada Jones and the Victor Light Opera Co., 1909).

Worlds of Fun

“Snoopy’s Hot Summer Lights” which debuted in 2010 is an immersive light and sound experience starring the Peanuts characters.

Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle light heavyweight

The men's freestyle light heavyweight was a freestyle wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme.

Zach Mills

In 2007 he appeared in the Hallmark movie The Valley of Light, and that year would also mark his leading role in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, in which he acted alongside Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman.


see also

Anthony Small

He is managed by boxing promoter Frank Warren, who has seen Small to wins over former Ukrainian Light Middleweight Champion Vladimir Borovski and previously unbeaten prospect Prince Arron.

Bronco McKart

Nicknamed "Superman", McKart turned pro in 1992 and in 1996 captured the WBO Light Middleweight Title by beating Santos Cardona by TKO.

Carl Daniels

In 1995, he fought Julio César Green for the Vacant WBA Light Middleweight Title and won a decision.

Denny Moyer

He continued to box in the best company for two years, and then won the vacant light-middleweight title by gaining a points win over Joey Giambra.

Dmitry Usagin

Usagin is best known for winning the bronze medal at 2000 European Amateur Boxing Championships in the Men's Light-Middleweight (– 71 kg) division, alongside Yugoslavia's Nikola Sjekloća.

Eamonn Magee

Magee's first twelve fights took place in a variety of locations such as the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, U.S. and England and against a variety of opposition including journeymen such as Steve McGovern, Kevin McKillan and Karl Taylor as well as future NABF Welter and Light Middleweight title holder Teddy Reid.

Gilbert Delé

He retired in 1993 after unsuccessfully challenging IBF Light Middleweight Title holder Gianfranco Rosi twice.

Jawaid Khaliq

During his boxing career he also held the Commonwealth welterweight title, WBF Inter-Continental Light Middleweight Title, Midlands Area light middleweight title and Midlands Area welterweight title.

JJ Bird

Bird boxes out of a gym run by former British Featherweight champion Gary De Roux and competes as welterweight/Light-Middleweight.

Julio César Vásquez

That same year he recaptured the WBA Light Middleweight Title by beating fellow southpaw Carl Daniels whom he knocked out with a single straight left after trailing badly on points.

Karmazin

Roman Karmazin (born January 2, 1973 in Kuznetsk) is the former IBF Light Middleweight champion of the world.

Lupe Aquino

Aquino, known as "Lupe", turned pro in 1981 and won the WBC Light Middleweight Title in 1987 with a decision over Duane Thomas.

Paddy Toland

Paddy Toland is the coach of the current Middle and Light Middleweight kickboxing champion, Tommy McCafferty (born in Letterkenny, Ireland) and the ISKA World Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion, Daniel Quigley (born in Derry City, Northern Ireland).

Ryan Rhodes

Rhodes lost his WBC light middleweight challenge bout against Saúl Álvarez with a technical knockout in the twelfth round on 18 June 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico.

On 18 April 2008, Rhodes knocked out Gary Woolcombe 37 seconds into the 9th round to regain the British light middleweight title, 11 years after he first won it.

Silvano Bertini

He retired in 1973 after failing to come out for the bell in the 12th round against Koichi Wajima for the WBC and WBA light middleweight titles.

Vincent Pettway

He challenged Gianfranco Rosi for the IBF light middleweight Title in 1994 in a bout that was ruled a sixth round technical draw.