Lesra Martin brought about the release of what middleweight boxer?
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Lesra Martin Lesra Martin is a Canadian lawyer and motivational speaker. He is known for helping to bring about the release of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter.
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Rubin Carter Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (May 6, 1937 – April 20, 2014) was a middleweight boxer who was wrongfully convicted of murder and later released following a petition of habeas corpus after spending almost 20 years in prison.
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Brian Rose (boxer) Brian 'The Lion' Rose (born 15 February 1985) is an English professional boxer. He was the WBO Intercontinental and British Champion and is part of a select group that has retained the Lonsdale Belt having made three successful defences of the British title beating Prince Arron to initially win the title. His retention of the belt came in his third defence against the former belt holder Sam Webb in a unanimous decision.
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Al McCoy (boxer) Al McCoy, (October 23, 1894 – August 22, 1966), born Alexander Rudolph, was a boxing World Middleweight Champion from 1914 to 1917. He had a total of 157 bouts. Of those determined officially by boxing judges, he won 44 with 27 by knockout, and had 6 losses, and 6 draws. Around 107 of his fights were no decision bouts.
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Lou Brouillard Lucien Pierre Brouillard, better known as Lou Brouillard, (May 23, 1911 – September 14, 1984), was a Canadian professional boxer who held the World Welterweight Title and a version of the World Middleweight Title. Statistical boxing website BoxRec ranks Brouillard as the 14th best middleweight of all-time and the 3rd best Canadian boxer ever. During his career he faced the likes of Mickey Walker, Young Corbett III, Jimmy McLarnin, Marcel Thil, and Fred Apostoli. Brouillard was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 2000 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Mick Leahy (boxer) Mick Leahy (12 March 1935 – 5 January 2010) was an Irish-born British professional boxer. Born in Cork, he became a British citizen in 1961 and lived the rest of his life in Coventry. In a career which spanned from 1956 to 1965, Leahy won the British Middleweight title and fought such names as László Papp and Nino Benvenuti. However, he is perhaps most notable for beating Sugar Ray Robinson, who is frequently cited as being the greatest boxer of all time.
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Leotis Martin Leotis Martin (March 10, 1939 – November 20, 1995) was an American boxer, the first ever NABF heavyweight champion and best known for his victory over former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Martin was a good puncher and a fairly skilled heavyweight who fought from 1962 to 1969. He compiled a record of 31 wins (19 KOs) and 5 losses and in 2003 was named to the "The Ring"' s list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. His career, however, was marked by inconsistency and bad luck.
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Mark Lloyd (boxer) Mark Lloyd (born 21 September 1975) is an English Welterweight boxer.
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Darnell Wilson (middleweight boxer) Darnell Wilson (born June 23, 1966) is an American former boxer.
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Artem Levin Artem Valeryevich Levin (Russian: Артё́м Вале́рьевич Ле́вин ; born December 8, 1986), also known as Artem "The Lion" Levin, is a Russian light heavyweight Muay Thai kickboxer fighting out of Prokopyevsk. He is the current World Muay Thai Council (WMC) Intercontinental and EMF European Muay Thai champion. He is the former Glory Middleweight Champion. As of 24 July 2017, he is ranked the #3 middleweight in the world by LiverKick.com.
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Jermain Taylor Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. He remains the most recent undisputed middleweight champion, having won the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, "Ring" magazine, and lineal titles in 2005 by beating Bernard Hopkins, and in doing so ending Hopkins' twelve-year reign as middleweight champion. This made Taylor the first boxer in history to claim each title from all four major boxing sanctioning organizations in a single fight (Hopkins had won his world titles separately between 1995 to 2004). He has also held the IBF middleweight title twice.
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Dmitry Pirog Dmitry Yurievich Pirog (Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Пирог ; born 27 June 1980) is a Russian former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2012. He held the WBO middleweight title from 2010 to 2012, and although his career was cut short due to a debilitating back injury, he is one of the few professional boxers to win a world title and retire undefeated.
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Louis Martin (weightlifter) Louis George Martin (11 November 1936 – 16 January 2015) was a British middle-heavyweight weightlifter.
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Gorilla Jones William Landon Jones (1906–1982) known as "Gorilla" Jones, was an American boxer who held the NBA Middleweight Boxing Championship of the World. Although he was nicknamed "Gorilla" for his exceptional reach, Jones is to be distinguished from the original "Gorilla Jones", who campaigned from 1913 to 1924 and held the World Colored Welterweight title. Jones was never knocked out although he himself won by 52 knockouts out of 101 wins over 141 total fights. He was posthumously inducted into World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1994 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Pete Mead Felix G. Mead, known as Pete Mead (January 11, 1924 – July 2, 2007), was an American middleweight boxer who fought in the ring from 1942 to 1951.
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Tommy Loughran Thomas Patrick Loughran (November 29, 1902 – July 7, 1982) was an American professional boxer and the former World Light Heavyweight Champion. Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Loughran as the #7 ranked light heavyweight of all time, while "The Ring Magazine" founder Nat Fleischer placed him at #4. The International Boxing Research Organization rates Loughran as the 6th best light heavyweight ever. Loughran was named the "Ring Magazine"'s Fighter of the Year twice, first in 1929 and again 1931. He was inducted into the Ring Magazine Hall of Fame in 1956 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1991.
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Tony Laing (boxer) Tony Laing ( (1957--) 22 1957 (age (2017)-(1957)-((11)<(09)or(11)==(09)and(30)<(22)) ) ) is a Jamaican/British professional light welter/welter/light middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Midlands (England) Area light welterweight title, BBBofC British light welterweight title, Commonwealth light welterweight title, and was a challenger for the European Boxing Union (EBU) light welterweight title against Tusikoleta Nkalankete, his professional fighting weight varied from 137+1/4 lb , i.e. light welterweight to 149 lb , i.e. light middleweight.
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Laura Martinel Laura Alejandra Martinel Acuña (born December 20, 1963) is a retired female judoka from Argentina. She claimed the silver medal in the Women's Middleweight (– 66 kg) division at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. Martinel represented her native South American country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where she was defeated in the repechage round by France's Claire Lecat.
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Les McAteer Les McAteer ( (1945--) 19 1945 (age (2017)-(1945)-((11)<(08)or(11)==(08)and(30)<(19)) ) ) born in Birkenhead is an English amateur and professional light middle/middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s who as an amateur won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1960 Schools Intermediate title, boxing out of Birkenhead, and won the Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) 1962 Junior Class-B title against K. Kemp (West Ham Boys' Club), boxing out of Willaston Birkenhead ABC, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Central Area middleweight title, BBBofC British middleweight title, and Commonwealth middleweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British middleweight title, and British Commonwealth middleweight title against Johnny Pritchett, and European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title against Tom Bogs, his professional fighting weight varied from 153+3/4 lb , i.e. light middleweight to 164 lb , i.e. light heavyweight. Les McAteer was managed by Johnny Campbell (circa-1905 — 2 May 1994 (aged 89)).
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Damien Denny Damien Denny (born 20 April 1966, Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish light middleweight boxer.
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Terry Dolan (boxer) Terence "Terry" Dolan is an English professional middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Martin Bravo (fighter) Martin Bravo (born 21 September 1993) is a Mexican mixed martial artist who has fought in the featherweight and lightweight divisions. Bravo remained undefeated until his August 2017 fight against Humberto Bandenay where he lost by knockout.