Q:Facts: - death place: brooklyn , new york , usa - residence: bensonhurst , brooklyn , new york - birth name: theodore '' ted '' kronowitz - death date: november 9 , 2012 -lrb- aged 89 -rrb- - birth date: september 1923 - name: herbert '' herbie '' kronowitz - nationality: american - birth place: brooklyn , new york , usa - religion: jewish - occupation: middleweight boxer from 1941 to 1950 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of herbie kronowitz .
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herbert '' herbie '' kronowitz , originally theodore '' ted '' kronowitz -lrb- september , 1923 -- november 9 , 2012 -rrb- , was an american middleweight boxer who fought in the ring from 1941 to 1950 .after his boxing career ended , kronowitz was a highly regarded referee for nearly thirty years .he resided in bensonhurst , in his native brooklyn borough of new york city .kronowitz adopted his brother 's name , '' herbie '' , when he began to box as an amateur at the age of fifteen .he said that since elementary school he had wanted to be a professional fighter .as a youth , kronowitz met ben jeby , the 1933 middleweight champion , when the kronowitz family moved around the corner from jeby , who became kronowitz 's role model in boxing .in 1947 , kronowitz was ranked tenth in the world among middleweights .in march of that year , he faced artie levine at madison square garden in new york city .the crowd of 12,000 was said to have been enthralled during the 10-round battle between the two jewish fighters .levine won the decision , although kronowitz claimed that while levine '' won the decision .there was no question that i won the fight . ''kronowitz fought the top contenders in the middleweight division .he lost to rocky castellani and vinnie cidone in decisions .among boxers that he defeated were harold green , billy walker , jerry fiorello , and pete mead , a native of trumann , arkansas , who died in 2007 .on his retirement at the age of twenty-seven , kronowitz had won fifty-four -lrb- nine by knockout -rrb- of eighty-three career decisions .there were also five draws .reflecting on his decade in the ring , kronowitz said : '' the thing about boxing is that it gave every one of us everything we have .i do n't mean just money .it taught us how to live , how to act , how to eat , how to be physically fit .it opened doors to places that we never could have gotten into .some made more money than others , but every boxer looks at his career as the most important experience in his life ....