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Benny Valgar, frequently spelled "Valger", came very close to winning the Featherweight Boxing Championship of the world on February 25, 1920 when he met reigning champion Johhny Kilbane. Though he won the bout in the resounding decision of newspapers, he did not knockout Kilbane, so by previous agreement, could not take the title. Other sources observed that Valgar forfeited the match because he was less than a pound overweight from the featherweight limit of 124 pounds. Kilbane could have waved the forfeit, but chose not to.〔"Kilbane About the Pass on as Feather Champ", ''The Milwaukee Journal'', pg. 3, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 14 March 1920.〕 Valgar also made it to the semi-final bout of the NYSAC World Lightweight Boxing Championship against Jimmy Goodrich, who he lost to in a close bout on June 15, 1925. Showing promise at an early age, Valgar was the U.S. Bantamweight National Amateur champion in 1916. In evidence of his defensive ring skills, he was one of only two American boxers of his era with over two hundred fights to have never been knocked out.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=028688&cat=boxer )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ibroresearch.com/2008/02/benny-valgar/ )〕 ==Early life and boxing career == Benjamin "Benny" Valgar was born in Paris on September 24, 1898 to Jewish parents who had emigrated to France from Russia around 1894. He was one of five children of Etta and Menachem Valger. His mother, after her husband's death, emigrated to New York City in 1913. Benny and his younger sister arrived in New York the following year.〔〔 A prodigal boxer from an early age, he won the American Bantamweight National Title in 1916. He began professional prizefighting that year, winning one of his first fights on July 1 against Joe Goodney at the Fairmont Athletic Club in the Bronx. On December 4, he beat Sammy Waltz, future Connecticut State Featherweight champion in fifteen rounds in Meriden, Connecticut. He lost only seven of his first sixty-five recorded fights with BoxRec between July 1916 and September 1919, beating Eddie Wallace in 1918 and 1919 in Philadelphia and Montreal. He fought 1925 World Lightweight Champion Rocky Kansas to a draw on November 9, 1918 in Philadelphia.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benny Valgar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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