page_title: Joe Burman
section_title: Win over bantam champ Pete Herman
hierarchical_section_title: Joe Burman / Early life and career / Win over bantam champ Pete Herman
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles Ledoux, French bantam weight boxer
context_page_description: Joe Burman was a British born American boxer who was briefly awarded the World bantamweight championship by the New York State Athletic Commission, when reigning champion Joe Lynch cancelled a bout with him scheduled for October 19, 1923. Burman defeated five world champions in his career, Pete Herman, Sammy Mandell, Joe Lynch, Charles Ledoux, and Johnny McCoy and was rated among the top bantamweight boxers in the world for several years. He had only three losses and was never knocked out in an exceptional career that spanned eight years, and included as many as 120 bouts.
context_section_description: In an important victory on September 6, 1920, Burman defeated reigning world bantamweight champion Pete Herman in a non-title bout at the Colliseum in St. Louis in an eight round newspaper decision.  Burman was awarded five rounds, for clearly landing more blows and taking the more aggressive stance, with Herman taking two, and the rest considered even.
  He defeated French bantamweight champion Charles Ledoux, on September 20, 1920 in an eight round newspaper decision of three leading Philadelphia newspapers at Philadelphia's Olympia Athletic Club.  Burman won as many of six of the eight rounds, showing clever boxing and ruggedness against the  blows of his opponent.  He defeated Ledoux in two other meetings and drew once in ten rounds in November of 1920. 
  According to the Chicago Tribune, Burman defeated 1919 world bantamweight champion Jackie Sharkey in New York in a ten round no-decision bout on June 19, 1917.  In a more widely publicized meeting that featured a boxing card of champions on June 21, 1921, the two drew in a ten round points decision at the newly opened boxing drome in the Bronx. In a lightning fast fight that focused on in-fighting, both boxers went repeatedly to the body.  There were minute long rallies that had the impressive crowd of 25,000 enthralled at several points in the bout.  In another widely publicized meeting on October 10, 1920, the two drew in a newspaper decision in East Chicago.  Burman, who was known as a good outside fighter, scored with left jabs and right crosses, while Sharkey, with a slight disadvantage in reach, dominated the infighting.  Burman, who was clearly the aggressor, may have dealt fewer blows, but they landed with more steam than Sharkey's at most points in the bout.  
  Burman met Sammy Sandow, another Jewish boxer with Russian ancestry, and won a ten round newspaper decision on March 31, 1922 in Detroit.  The bout featured no knockdowns.  Sandow used his reach advantage to send left jabs to Sandow's face, while Sandow was forced to fight in close.  Burman's strong right was usually well defended by Sandow's use of a crouch to fend them off.  In a previous meeting, a twelve round points decision in Baltimore on April 30, 1920, Sandow had won decisively.  Burman was probably hit twice for every blow landed on his opponent, and Sandow put him to the canvas briefly in the eight with a right.  Sandow began to build a points lead in the sixth through tenth, and scored heavily in the eighth, ninth, and eleventh.
caption: Charles Ledoux
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