| Harry Jeffra |
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| 1988 deaths | |
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Jeffra captured the bantamweight title by outpointing Puerto Rican great Sixto Escobar on September 23 , 1937 . Escobar, however, regained the title by outpointing Jeffra on February 20 , 1938 . The two met again with no title on the line. In what would be Escobar's last fight, Jeffra was awarded a 10 round decision. Jeffra then moved up in weight to Featherweight , where he fought several bouts against Joey Archibald . On September 28 , 1939 , Archibald successfully defended his world featherweight title against Jeffra when he was awarded a very controversial split decsiion after 15 rounds. Most writers scored the fight for Jeffra. On May 20 , 1940 , Jeffra outpointed Archibald to win the NYSAC version of the world featherweight crown, but lost the title back to Archibald on May 12 , 1941 . Jeffra died in September of 1988 . |
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