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On This Day: Georges Carpentier fights ‘Kid’ Lewis in first radio-covered boxing match
MAY 11, 1922: Georges Carpentier fought Ted ‘Kid’ Lewis in first boxing match to be covered live on radio in Britain on this day in 1922.
Frenchman Carpentier, who held the world light heavyweight title, took on Briton Lewis, a former welterweight champion at the Olympia exhibition centre in London.
At first the local, who weighed in at 150lb to his rival’s 175lb, looked like he might beat the heavier man as he laid punch after punch on him.
But Carpentier, known for his extremely hard right hook, took advantage after referee Joe Palmer put a hand on Lewis’s shoulder to warn him against holding.
The Frenchman, who had once been the ‘white heavyweight champion of the world’ during African American Jack Johnson’s dominance, landed his ace move.
The Kid, a Jew who had grown up in London’s East End, went crashing to the canvas and was counted out.
Listeners to the first live commentary on radio could hear the crowd crying ‘foul’ – but Palmer duly awarded victory to Carpentier.
Lewis later said: ‘I felt cheated, but I didn’t bear any grudge.’
The fight had been hugely anticipated in Britain.
A previewing British Pathé newsreel showed The Kid with his ‘controversial’ gum shield, a now universal protection that Lewis was the first professional to wear.
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It also filmed the effervescent Carpentier stroking his pet dog Tom at home in Paris.
The former First World War pilot, who had been awarded two of France’s highest military honours, was one of the most popular boxers ever.
Americans notably supported him during his failed bid to gain the world heavyweight title from local man Jack Dempsey in the first ever fight to earn a $1million gate.
He lost his world light heavyweight title in September 1922 in a controversial bout with Senegalese fighter Battling Siki.
He retired in July 1924 after a bruising 15-round contest with Gene Tunney, which he lost on a technical knockout decision.
After this Carpentier spent became a vaudeville song-and-dance man, mostly in Britain and America, before appearing in six movies.
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He later opened his own Paris bar, Chez Georges Carpentier, where he remained a lively host until his death from a heart attack at age 81.
Lewis, who had fought his first boxing match at age 14 for sixpence and a cup of tea, first won the world welterweight title after defeating Jack Britton in Boston in 1915.
The two would go on to have one of the best known rivalries in the sport, fighting each other an astonishing 20 times over 224 rounds.
He lost the title for the last time in 1919, when he returned to England, where the following year he won the British and European welterweight titles.
He hoped to stage a massive comeback by moving up a weight and taking on and beating Carpentier, but it was not to be.
Lewis, who had a swarming and combative style in the ring, also earned the British middleweight title and continued boxing until 1929.
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By then he had fought a total of 299 bouts – against Carpentier’s 109 – and won 233 of them.
He later became a bodyguard for Oswald Mosley and local election candidate for his New Party.
But he fell out with Mosley when his subsequent political group, the British Union of Fascists, became openly anti-Semitic.
Lewis died aged 77 in 1970.
