Charlie Mohr was a middleweight

Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...

 college boxer for the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

. He died April 17, 1960 of a brain hemorrhage following an NCAA Tournament

NCAA Boxing Championship

The following is a list of NCAA Team Champions in Boxing. The National Collegiate Athletic Association discontinued the boxing championship after 1960; however in 1976, American collegiate boxing was picked up again by the National Collegiate Boxing Association....

bout. Twenty-two days after Charlie Mohr's death the University of Wisconsin–Madison abolished the sport at UW–Madison. The NCAA soon followed Wisconsin's lead, officially ending their support of the national boxing tournament in late 1960 and unofficially terminating the sport.

Further reading

Moe, Doug. Lords of the Ring. Madison; University of Wisconsin–Madison Press, 2005.

External links

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2000/april/boxing.php (dead link).
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• http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1071184/1/index.htm (downloaded 20 October 2009).
• http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/doug_moe/article_4a56a5e8-012c-580d-bde9-21361d66b3a4.html
• http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/the_bonus/04/16/mohr/index.html?eref=si_latest