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Lionel Edmund Rose MBE (21 June 1948 – 8 May 2011) was an Australian professional boxer who competed from 1964 to 1976. He held the undisputed WBA, WBC, and The Ring bantamweight titles from 1968 to 1969, becoming the first Indigenous Australian to win a world title.
Lionel Edmund Rose (21 de junio de 1948 – 8 de mayo de 2011) fue un boxeador australiano, campeón mundial de peso gallo y el primer aborigen australiano en ganar un título mundial. Considerado una estrella mediática tras ello, también fue actor y cantante, con menor éxito.
25 de abr. de 2024 · Biography of Lionel Rose, Australian boxer who was the first Aboriginal person to win a professional world boxing championship. He was the world bantamweight champion from 1968 to 1969. When he retired in 1976, he had a career record of 42 wins (12 by knockout) and 11 losses.
27 de feb. de 2023 · Lionel Rose (born June 21, 1948) was an Australian boxer who became the first aborigine in boxing history to win a world title. Rose grew up learning how to box while watching his father, also a professional boxer. He barely missed the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Rose boxed to emulate his father and his idol, twice Australian lightweight champion George Bracken. Lionel was the first Aboriginal to win a world championship in any sport and was only the second Australian to win a world title while still in his teens.
Lionel Rose was one of the greats of Australian sport and the lead character in a story that is the stuff of legend. The oldest of seven boys and five girls, Lionel was born in 1948 in Warragul, not far from Jindivick, a small, impoverished Aboriginal settlement on Jackson's Track, where he grew up. He learned the fundamentals of boxing from ...
PUBLICATION: Lionel Rose: Australian, The Life Story of a Champion, as Told to Rod Humphries, Angus and Robertson, 1969. NAME: Lionel Rose. SEX: Male. BIRTH DATE: 21 June 1948. BIRTH PLACE: Jackson Track (Labertouche), South Eastern Victoria. FIRST LANGUAGE: English. SIGNIFICANT LOCALITIES:
