Abie Bain Career: 1923-1936

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Discription:  Inscribed to Eric

Condition: Excellent – page from program – Inscribed To Eric

Size: A4

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Abie Bain (Boxing. Born, St. Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 10, 1906; died, Ormond Beach, FL, Apr. 9, 1993.) Brought to the U.S. as a child, Abie Bain (the Anglicized version of his Russian name) gave Cambridge, Mass., as his birthplace in the 1930s when he was a middleweight and light heavyweight fighting mainly out of Newark, N.J. Bain had over 100 pro fights, the highlight of which was his three-round knockout of German middleweight champion Herman Hersch Jan. 2, 1929. Following his boxing career (1924-34), he developed a second career as a technical advisor for many boxing films and appeared in several, including Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962). Bain retired to Florida in 1984.

Member of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame.

Born: 1906-08-10

Hometown: Newark, New Jersey, USA

Birthplace: Russia

Died: 1993-04-09 (Age:86)

Record: 50-27-5

Category: Jewish Boxers

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