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Johnny Famechon

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Johnny Famechon (born Jean-Pierre Famechon 28 March 1945 in Paris, France) is a former Australian featherweight boxer. [1]

27 relations: All in the Mind (Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio), Ambrose Palmer, Australia, Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame, Autobiography, Boxing, Commonwealth of Nations, Featherweight, Fighting Harada, France, Frankston, Victoria, French Australians, John O'Brien (boxer), José Legrá, Les Dunn, Lineal championship, List of lineal boxing world champions, List of WBC world champions, Los Angeles, Moomba, Orthodox stance, Paris, Royal Albert Hall, Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards, Vicente Saldivar, Warwick Farm Racecourse, World Boxing Council.

All in the Mind (Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio)

All in the Mind is a weekly ABC Radio National program, hosted by Australian science journalist Natasha Mitchell, exploring the mind, brain and behaviour.

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Ambrose Palmer

Ambrose Palmer (16 October 1910 – 16 October 1990) was a talented world-class professional prize fighter and a leading Australian rules footballer of the 1930s and early 1940s.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame

Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame was founded in 2001 and began inducting boxers into the Hall of Fame in 2003.

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Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.

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Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves, throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.

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Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class in the combat sports of boxing, kickboxing, mixed martial arts, and Greco-Roman wrestling.

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Fighting Harada

Masahiko Harada (born April 5, 1943), better known as Fighting Harada, is a former world boxing champion in the Flyweight and Bantamweight divisions, and also challenged for the Featherweight title twice.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Frankston, Victoria

Frankston is an outer-suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, in the local government area of the City of Frankston.

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French Australians

French Australians (Franco-Australiens), some of whom refer to themselves as Huguenots, are Australian citizens or residents of French ancestry, or French-born people who reside in Australia.

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John O'Brien (boxer)

John O'Brien (20 February 1937 – 30 March 1979 (aged 42)) born in Glasgow was a Scottish professional feather/super feather/light/light welterweight boxer of the 1960s and '70s, who won the British Commonwealth featherweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British featherweight title against; Howard Winstone, and Jimmy Revie and European Boxing Union (EBU) featherweight title against Howard Winstone.

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José Legrá

José Legrá (born 19 April 1943) is a retired professional featherweight boxer.

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Les Dunn

Les Dunn (16 February 1915 – 26 October 2009) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Lineal championship

In combat sports where champions are decided by a challenge, the lineal championship of a weight class is a world championship title held initially by an undisputed champion and subsequently by a fighter who defeats the reigning champion in a match at that weight class.

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List of lineal boxing world champions

This is a list of lineal boxing world champions.

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List of WBC world champions

This is a list of WBC world champions, showing every world champion certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC).

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Moomba

Moomba (also known as the Moomba Festival) is held annually in Melbourne, Australia.

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Orthodox stance

In combat sports such as boxing, an orthodox stance is one in which the boxer places his left foot farther in front of the right foot, thus having his weaker side closer to the opponent.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards

The Sport Australia Hall of Fame was established on 10 December 1985 to recognise the achievements of Australian sportsmen and sportswomen.

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Vicente Saldivar

Vicente Samuel Saldívar García (May 3, 1943 – July 18, 1985) was a Mexican boxer.

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Warwick Farm Racecourse

Warwick Farm Racecourse is a racecourse at Warwick Farm a south-west suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council (WBC) is one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the International Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) and one of the two original sanctioning bodies (along with the WBA).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Famechon

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