page_title: Al Singer
section_title: Life after boxing
hierarchical_section_title: Al Singer / Life after boxing
caption_attribution_description: Español: El Grafico del 16 de Agosto de 1930. Edicion 579
context_page_description: Al "The Bronx Beauty" Singer was an American boxer who won the world lightweight championship in 1930.
context_section_description: Singer served in WWII, fighting a number of exhibitions for the soldiers.  He was stationed at Camp Upton in New York but received a medical discharge due to eye trouble.  He married the former show girl, Billy Boze in 1947.  Having earned around a quarter million from boxing in his lifetime, Singer tried various businesses in his thirties and forties including sales, restaurants, real estate, and theater, owning several Cabarets.  He was appointed to a judgeship by the New York State Boxing Commission in 1955.
  On April 20, 1961, he died of a heart attack in his New York City apartment at age 51. Singer, who was Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2006.
caption: Al Singer in 1930
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