John C. Montana (born Giovanni Montana) (July 1, 1893 – March 18, 1964) was a Buffalo, New York labor racketeer, political fixer, and elected politician who eventually became the underboss and/or consiglieri of the Buffalo crime family.
Edward Henry Greb (June 6, 1894 – October 22, 1926) was an American professional boxer.
 Nicknamed "The Pittsburgh Windmill", he was the American light heavyweight champion from 1922 to 1923 and world middleweight champion from 1923 to 1926.
 He fought a recorded 298 times in his 13 year-career, which began at around 140 pounds.
 He fought against the best opposition the talent-rich 1910s and 20s could provide him, frequently squaring off against light heavyweights and even heavyweights. Widely considered one of the best fighters of all time, Greb was named the 7th greatest fighter of the past 80 years by the "Ring Magazine", the 5th greatest fighter of all-time by historian Bert Sugar and ranked as the #1 middleweight and the #2 pound-for-pound fighter of all-time by the International Boxing Research Organization.
 Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Greb as the #3 ranked middleweight of all-time and the 8th greatest pound-for-pound fighter ever.
Johnny Wilson was born Giovanni Panica on March 23, 1893 in Harlem, New York City.
 He was a professional boxer who fought from 1911 until 1926.
 The highlight of Wilson's career came when he captured the world middleweight championship by defeating Mike O'Dowd by decision over 12 rounds on May 6, 1920.
 Wilson held the crown until he was outpointed over 15 rounds by the all-time great Harry Greb.
William "Pop" Gates (August 30, 1917 – December 1, 1999) was an American professional basketball player.
 He was born in Decatur, Alabama and attended high school in New York, New York.
 After playing college basketball at Clark Atlanta University, he continued his basketball career in New York City with the Harlem Renaissance, for several years beginning in 1938–39.
 "Seven months before Jackie Robinson made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Leo Ferris helped usher in a new era of racial integration for professional basketball when he signed William "Pop" Gates, who made his debut for the Blackhawks in October 1946.
 Gates, along with William "Dolly" King, were the first two African-American players in the NBL.
 "When Leo Ferris came to me, it was like a godsend," Gates was quoted as saying in the book, "Pioneers of the Hardwood: Indiana and the Birth of Professional Basketball."
 "It was a real highlight of my career to be accepted by the NBL as one of only two blacks in the league."
 He became one of the early black players in the NBL in 1946.
 Later he played for and coached the Harlem Globetrotters.
 Gates is one of the few athletes who went directly from a high school championship team (Benjamin Franklin, New York, 1938) to a World Professional Champion (Rens, 1939).
Jerome "Jeff Smith" Jefferds (April 23, 1891 – February 3, 1962) was an American professional boxer who held the Australian version of the World Middleweight Title during his career.
 Despite his relative anonymity, Smith faced off against some the best fighters of his era, including Harry Greb, Gene Tunney, Mike Gibbons, Georges Carpentier, Les Darcy and Tommy Loughran.
 Statistical boxing website BoxRec lists Smith as the 17th greatest middleweight ever, while Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer ranked Smith as the #10 Middleweight of all-time.
 He was inducted into the Ring Magazine Hall of Fame in 1969 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2013.
James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1915 to 1928.
 He held the world heavyweight title from 1926 to 1928, and the American light heavyweight title twice, from 1922 to 1923.
 A highly technical boxer, Tunney had a five-fight rivalry with Harry Greb in which he won three, drew once, with one loss.
 He also knocked out Georges Carpentier and defeated Jack Dempsey twice; first in 1926 and again in 1927.
 Tunney's successful title defense against Dempsey remains one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight.
 He retired undefeated as a heavyweight after his victory over Tom Heeney in 1928, after which Tunney was named Fighter of the Year by "The Ring" magazine.
The Harlem riot of 1964, or Harlem riots of 1964 occurred between July 16 and 22, 1964.
 It began after James Powell was shot and killed by police Lieutenant Thomas Gilligan.
 The second bullet of three fired by Lieutenant Gilligan killed the 15-year-old African American in front of his friends and about a dozen other witnesses.
 Immediately after the shooting, about 300 students from a nearby school who were informed by the principal rallied.
 The shooting set off six consecutive nights of rioting that affected the New York City neighborhoods of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
 In total, 4,000 New Yorkers participated in the riots which led to attacks on the New York City Police Department, vandalism, and looting in stores.
 At the end of the conflict, reports counted one dead rioter, 118 injured, and 465 arrested.
 It is said that the Harlem race riot of 1964 is the precipitating event for riots in July and August in cities such as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Rochester, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Jersey City, New Jersey; Paterson, New Jersey; and Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Guglielmo Papaleo (September 19, 1922 – November 23, 2006) was an American professional boxer, better known as Willie Pep who held the World Featherweight championship twice between the years of 1947 and 1950.
 Pep boxed a total of 1,956 rounds in the 241 bouts during his 26-year career, a considerable number of rounds and bouts even for a fighter of his era.
 His final record was 229–11–1 with 65 knockouts. Pep, known for his speed, finesse and elusiveness, is considered to be one of the best fighters of the 20th century and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
 Pep was voted as the #1 featherweight of the 20th Century by the Associated Press and ranked the #1 featherweight of all-time by the International Boxing Research Organization in 2005.
Archie Moore (born Archibald Lee Wright; December 13, 1916 – December 9, 1998) was an American professional boxer and the longest reigning World Light Heavyweight Champion of all time (December 1952 – May 1962).
 He had one of the longest professional careers in the history of the sport.
 Nicknamed "The Mongoose", and then "The Old Mongoose" in the latter half of his career, Moore holds the record for the most career knockouts (132) in boxing history.
 Moore was a highly strategical and defensive boxer, with a great chin and bludgeoning power, he ranks #4 on "The Ring"s list of "100 greatest punchers of all time".
 Moore is rated by prominent boxing website BoxRec as the 3rd greatest pound-for-pound boxer of all-time.
 Moore was also a trainer for a short time after retirement.
 He trained boxers such as Muhammad Ali, George Foreman and James Tillis.
John Massari (born Giovanni Massari in New York City, New York) is an American composer.

Question: Johnny Wilson was born Giovanni Panica on March 23, 1893 in Harlem, New York City, Wilson held the crown until he was outpointed over 15 rounds by the all-time great Harry Greb, was an American professional boxer, nicknamed what?
Answer: The Pittsburgh Windmill