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Lawrence Gene Fullmer (July 21, 1931 – April 27, 2015) was an American professional boxer and World Middleweight champion. He was known as The Utah Cyclone, [2] The Mormon Mauler, and as "Cyclone" Gene Fullmer.
Box-pro 64 bouts. Fullmer's manager Merv Jensen asked to have the bout stopped after the seventh. Fullmer sustained a broken jaw keeping him out of the ring for six months. Birnbaum scored the bout 5-5 in rounds, but scored 6-5 for Fullmer in the supplemental scoring. Fullmer was down in the 8th.
May 3, 2015 · Gene Fullmer, his brothers and their families have given Utahns an extraordinary legacy of sports and service. The former middleweight world champion passed away April 27 at the age of 83.
Apr 29, 2015 · Gene Fullmer, the middleweight boxing champion known for a brawling style and an ability to shake off punches and remembered for his title fights with Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen...
Gene Fullmer (Cyclone) was an American professional boxer. He was a middleweight world champion. In a career spanning 11 years, 11 months, and 16 days, Fullmer amassed a record of 47-6-3, which includes 15 wins via KO. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) in 1991.
A mormon from West Jordan, Utah, Gene Fullmer turned pro in 1951, one month before his 20th birthday. He scored knockouts in 14 of his first 16 pro fights while campaigning primarily in the West. Among his significant early victories was a points win over future middleweight champ Paul Pender.
Former two-time middleweight champion and 1991 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Gene Fullmer died Tuesday at his home in West Jordan, Utah. Fullmer was 83.
Apr 28, 2015 · In the house Gene Fullmer paid for in pain, he wasn’t the world middleweight champ. He was just a country boy from West Jordan, the town where he was born and died. Decades after he rose to fame in 1957, his humility belied the heights to which he had risen.
With a rugged fighting style Gene Fullmer had an impressive professional boxing career, starting with 29 consecutive victories. He twice defeated world champions Carmen Basilio and Sugar Ray Robinson .
May 19, 1997 · COLOR PHOTO: KENT MILES Jenson (right) began training Fullmer in his basement gym 53 years ago, when Gene was 12. [Gene Fullmer and Marv Jenson] B/W PHOTO: UPI/CORBIS BETTMANNFullmer led the...
