ko death_date death_place draws weight birth_place height nationality article_title birth_date nickname realname wins image losses name pixels style
12 30 december 1974 miami beach , florida 5 lightweight new york , lower east side 5 ft 10 in m 2 on jewish american usa sid terris
 27 september 1904 galloping east side ghost of the ghetto dancing master of the sydney terris 99 terrissid.jpg 13 sid terris 100 orthodox
sid terris

sidney terris -lrb- september 7 , 1904 -- december 30,1974 -rrb- was a top rated american lightweight boxing contender from the lower east side of manhattan .
he excelled as an amateur , winning fifty straight bouts and taking metropolitan , new york state , national aau , and both national and international titles .
at the end of 1924 , tex rickard , dempsey 's manager , rated terris second behind only champion benny leonard .
a world ranked lightweight from february 1925 until november 1929 , his highest ranking was # 1 .
on february 6 , 1925 , he lost to sammy mandell in an elimination bout for the world lightweight championship .
