Walker, Mickey

Walker, Mickey

▪ American boxer
byname of  Edward Patrick Walker,  also called  The Toy Bulldog 
born July 13, 1901, Elizabeth, N.J., U.S.
died April 28, 1981, Freehold, N.J.
 American professional boxer, a colourful sports figure of the 1920s and early 1930s, who held the world welterweight and middleweight championships and was a leading contender for the light-heavyweight and heavyweight titles.

      Walker, who began his professional career in 1919, won the welterweight (147-lb [67-kg]) championship from Jack Britton on Nov. 1, 1922, and lost it to Pete Latzo on May 20, 1926. By defeating the champion Tiger Flowers on Dec. 3, 1926, he captured the middleweight (160-lb [73-kg]) title, which he resigned on June 19, 1931. In bouts for the light-heavyweight (175-lb [80-kg]) title, he lost decisions to champions Tommy Loughran (1929) and Maxie Rosenbloom (1933). On July 22, 1931, he fought a 15-round draw with the much taller and heavier Jack Sharkey (Sharkey, Jack), who in the following year won the world heavyweight championship.

      Before starting his pugilistic career, Walker briefly studied architecture, and, on his retirement from the ring in 1935, he began to study art. In the 1940s he attained considerable success as a painter. His autobiography, The Will to Conquer, was published in 1953. In 1974 he was found to be suffering from Parkinson disease. He spent his last years in nursing homes.

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