Young Corbett III

Young Corbett III
Data
Birth Name	Raffaele Capabianca Giordano
Weight class	Welterweight , middleweight
nationality	United States
birthday	May 27, 1905
place of birth	Rionero in Vulture , Potenza Province , Italy
Date of death	July 15, 1993
Place of death	Auberry , Fresno County , USA
style	Southpaw
size	171 cm
Combat Statistics
Struggles	156
Victories	122
Knockout victories	32
Defeats	12
draw	22nd

Young Corbett III (born Raffaele Capabianca Giordano , born May 27, 1905 in Rionero in Vulture , Province of Potenza , Italy , † July 15, 1993 in Auberry , Fresno County , USA ) was an American boxer of Italian descent. He was a professional welterweight champion in 1933 and middleweight in 1938 and is considered by many to be one of the best boxers of all time.

Career

Corbett came to the United States as immigrants with his parents as a toddler . There they lived first in Pittsburgh and later moved to Fresno , California . In 1919 he started boxing as "Ralph Giordano" (later he changed his name to "Young Corbett III").

Robust southpaw Corbett has fought many legendary fights. For example, he played a series of four fights against eventual welterweight world champion Jack Thompson , of which he won three and one ended in a draw. He also recorded victories against Sergeant Sammy Baker , Mickey Walker , Billy Conn , Fred Apostoli , the welterweight world champion Jackie Fields and the later middleweight world champion Ceferino Garcia .

On February 22, 1933 , Corbett won the welterweight world title in a 10 round fight against Jackie Fields. He won 6 rounds, Fields only 3 out of 10 rounds. Three months later he was dethroned by Jimmy McLarnin with a knockout in the first round.

Then Corbett rose to middleweight division. During this time he beat the later heavyweight world champion Gus Lesnevich (TKO 5th) as well as Mickey Walker and Billy Conn. On February 22, 1938 he beat Fred Apostoli and won the world title in this weight class. On November 18 of the same year, he met Apostoli again, but this time was stopped in the eighth round. By the time Corbett retired in 1940, he had contested 156 fights, of which he won 122 (32 knockout) and lost 12.

Others

In addition to his boxing career, Corbett worked as a physical education teacher for the California Highway Patrol and as a gravedigger. In Fresno a statue of Corbett was erected with him in a boxing pose. He was also inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004 . BoxRec listed him in third place among the “best welterweight boxers of all time”.

Corbett is the great grandfather of American football player Matt Giordano .

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• BoxRec Boxing Records

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BoxRec: All-Time Welterweight Rankings ( En ) Archived from the original on October 19, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 14, 2014.