death_date nationality total birth_date wins unkwown realname image name losses caption ko birth_place height nickname draws weight article_title style
10 august 1953 american 50 19 september 1896 27 2 william g. tate bill tate -lrb- boxer -rrb- passport 1916.jpg bill tate 19 passport photo of bill tate from 1916 22 montgomery , alabama 6 6.5 big bill 2 heavyweight bill tate -lrb- boxer -rrb-
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bill tate -lrb- boxer -rrb-

big bill tate -lrb- september 19 , 1896 -- august 10 , 1953 -rrb- , a native of montgomery , alabama who fought out of chicago , was an african american boxer who fought from 1912 to 1927 .
tate was a regular sparring partner of heavyweight champion jack dempsey , yet dempsey denied him a shot at the title .
tate graduated from alabama 's normal school for colored students , a state-supported teacher 's college for african americans , in 1905 .
he reigned as the world colored heavyweight champion from 25 january 1917 , when he beat sam langford , to 25 may 1917 , when langford reclaimed the title .
