For our assignment #6 our class had to pick a famous black Man/Women that are famous and represented Canada. The person I picked to write my assignment on is the Champion boxer George Dixon.
On July 29 1870; Halifax, Nova Scotia, the champion George Dixon was born. "As a boy he was apprenticed to a photographer, and he became interested in boxing because local boxers came to his employer to sit for publicity photographs." After that time he started to train to become a great champion some day. Dixon had very fast hands and was quick on his feet like a cat. At the height of 5-3 1/2 most boxers would think George Dixon was an easy win, but they were all wrong. George Dixon was so quick when he fought the bigger size oppents, they barly hit 3 punches on him. He moved on every swing anybody took on him. By 1890 Dixon won his firist Bantamweight championship and held the featherweight championship from 1891-1900. George Dixon was the firist black Canadian man to win a boxing championship. Since he was only 5-3 1/2 and was the only black Canadian man who won a championship everyone called him Little Chocolate. He was an amazing boxer.
The important contributions George Dixon made was that he was the firist black Canadian man to win a boxing championship and held it for a long time. Also he proved to the world that Canadian people are very good fighters and he showed that size does not matter in any sport.
Here the websites I got my information from:http://coxscorner.tripod.com/dixon.html and
3 comments:
Excellent work, Stefan! You are now on the list of top entries! Well done!
Stefan I like how you explained your man and how you described him
good job!
Stefan (aka James Naismith),
Your assignment #7 is almost two full weeks overdue. This is not a good thing. I've also seen and heard that you've been fooling around most of this class. From now on, I'm going to ask you and Kane to sit seperately.
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