ko death_date weight birth_place height nationality article_title total birth_date draws wins losses name
17 10 april 1937 light heavyweight heavyweight charlottetown , prince edward island 5 ft 8.5 in cm on can 1868canadian george byers -lrb- boxer -rrb-
 47 25 june 1872 20 20 7 -lrb- 4 ko -rrb- george byers
george byers -lrb- boxer -rrb-

george byers -lrb- june 25 , 1872 -- april 10 , 1937 -rrb- was a cando-american boxer who won the world colored middleweight championship in 1897 and held the world colored heavyweight championship from september 14 , 1898 to march 16 , 1901 , a reign of 913 days .
the 5 ′ 8 1/2 ″ fought out of boston from 1895 to 1904 at a weight of between 120 and 165 lbs. , in many weight classes and frequently against men that were much larger than himself .
on 9 december 1897 in waterbury , connecticut , he faced harry peppers in a title match for the world colored middleweight championship .
byers knocked out the undefeated peppers , the pacific coast middleweight champion of the pacific coast in the 19th round of a 20-round contest .
