Bob Moha (birth name Robert Mucha) was a Milwaukee-based middleweight boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

, nicknamed the "Milwaukee Caveman

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".

Career

His decisive defeat of Billy Papke

Billy Papke

Billy Papke was an American boxer....

 (then considered the lead contender for the middleweight title vacant in the wake of Stanley Ketchel

Stanley Ketchel

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's murder) at a bout in Boston on October 31, 1910, caused Papke to retire briefly from the ring.

On December 4, 1914, in a fight against Mike Gibbons of St. Paul, Minnesota held in Hudson, Wisconsin

Hudson, Wisconsin

Hudson is a city in St. Croix County, Wisconsin, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 18,937, making it the principal and largest city of the Minneapolis - St. Paul metropolitan area . The Hudson area however had a population of 39,713...

, Moha was disqualified in the second round for a blow below the belt

Below the belt

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. The sponsoring club denied him a share of the purse, since the fight did not go to a decision, and Moha sued them. The case eventually went to the Wisconsin Supreme Court

Wisconsin Supreme Court

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, which in a 1916 ruling, agreed with the original jury that he had failed to fulfill his contractual obligation. Moha was not permitted to introduce testimony that it was customary in such cases for the fouling fighter to receive his contractual share.

External links

• Bob Moha at Cyberboxingzone
• Bob Moha article Ring Magazine, January 2002
• Bob Moha's career record Boxrec.com