ko death_date death_place weight birth_place height nationality article_title total birth_date draws wins losses name
15 june 1970 july 17 , 1889 new york city , new york , u.s. light heavyweight dearing , georgia , u.s. 5 ft 10 in m 2 on usa usa lee anderson -lrb- boxer -rrb-
 88 july 17 , 1889 14 38 36 lee anderson
lee anderson -lrb- boxer -rrb-

lee anderson -lrb- july 17 , 1889 -- june 1970 -rrb- was a boxer who fought between and 1914 and 1929 .
the 5 ' 10 '' anderson fought out of oakland , california as a light heavyweight .
he was the last holder of the world colored light heavyweight title .
on may 30 , 1921 , he fought kid norfolk for the new colored light heavyweight title in a scheduled 10-round bout in phoenix , arizona .
anderson won on a t.k.o. when norfolk returned to his corner in the ninth round , being unable to continue to fight .
-lrb- they would meet another three times in non-title bouts between 1922 and 1924 , and the kid prevailed each time . -rrb-
anderson defended the title on the fourth of july 1921 in a 10-round bout in phoenix , arizona , beating rough house ware on points .
when norfolk fought the jamaica kid on december 20 , 1921 at madison square garden in new york city , he had claimed the world colored light heavyweight title .
he beat the jamaica kid on points in an eight-round bout .
in atlanta on january 30 , 1922 , norfolk faced tiger flowers , the boxer who would become the first african american world middleweight champ in 1926 , k.o.-ing him in third round of a 10-rounder .
he apparently had vacated the title when he met reigning colored heavyweight champ harry wills on march 2 , 1922 in madison square garden in new york city for a 15-round bout , losing to the great champion via a k.o. in the second round .
wills outweighed him by 25 3/4 lbs .
on may 9 of that year , lee anderson took on tiger flowers in ciudad juarez , mexico for a 15-round bout to determine the colored light heavyweight title .
anderson won his second colored crown when he k.o.-ed flowers in the seventh round .
anderson apparently vacated the title in turn , and kid norfolk took the crown title for the second time one day short of a year later , on may 8 , 1923 , when he k.o.-ed flowers in the at 2:50 in the first round of a scheduled 12-rounder .
the title then went into abeyance .
anderson retired from the ring .
by 1942 , he was living in a boardinghouse in harlem and working as a stevedore on the hudson river waterfront .
john henry lewis became the first black world light heavyweight champion in 1935 .
in his career , anderson racked up a record of 36 wins -lrb- 15 by k.o. , 32 losses -lrb- k.o.-ed four times -rrb- and 12 draws , plus eight newspaper decisions , in which he won two , lost two , and had two draws .
