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Mushy Callahan (November 3, 1904 – June 18, 1986) was the ring name of Vincent Morris Scheer, a Los Angeles-based champion in the newly created World Light Welterweight Division for an impressive four years from 1926-30. After his retirement from boxing in 1932, Callahan refereed matches, and had a thirty-year career taking small roles in movies, most with boxing themes, as well as working as a stuntman and boxing adviser on movie sets, not to be confused with the Canadian rock group sharing the same name. ==Early life and start in boxing== Callahan was born Vincent Morris Scheer, on November 3, 1905, in Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father was a produce merchant. He took the ring name of Mushy Callahan, discarding his more ethnic sounding name, as most Jewish boxers did at the turn of the century. According to Callahan, he took the surname from an Irish fight promoter at his Newsboy's boxing club.〔''The Jewish Boxer's Hall of Fame'', Blady, Ken, (1988) Shapolsky Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, pgs.169-173〕 Callahan was not usually considered a power hitter. He was, however, a great counter puncher and possessed a fine defense. Though he could take a punch, his limited reign as champion might be explained by the abdominal injuries he received in his July 27, 1927 bout with Sergent Sammy Baker which he lost in a ninth round TKO. Callahan never fully recovered. He suffered from injuries to his hands as well early in his career.〔 His family moved to the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Boyle Heights District in Los Angeles from New York when he was two. He was into amateur boxing by ten, and when he finally starting professional boxing in 1924, four rounds were the limit in California, so his progress in gaining experience was limited.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=41498&cat=boxer )〕 In 1925, when ten round fights were legalized in California, Mushy ran through a number of skilled opponents including Russel LeRoy, and Pal Moran, knocking both out in three rounds. He also fought Red Herring, and Spug Myers. He defeated Ace Hudkins in ten rounds on November 14, 1925 in their second meeting in Vernon California, despite having broken bones in both hands. Callahan fought Hudkins to a draw in their first meeting on September 16, 1925, in Olympic Stadium in Los Angeles.〔〔 Just two months before winning the Light Welterweight Championship, Callahan was defeated in an upset by Pacific Coast Lightweight Champion Jack Silver at Ewing Field in San Francisco on July 25, 1926. 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「Mushy Callahan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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