Freddie Russo is an American

United States

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 professional boxer who fought as a featherweight

Featherweight

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 / lightweight

Lightweight

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. His overall record was 102 wins, 14 losses and 5 draws.

Russo was born in Rahway, New Jersey

Rahway, New Jersey

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 on October 3, 1924 . He won four Golden Gloves

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 championships as an amateur and won his first 51 fights as a professional. He won the New Jersey Featherweight Championship at New Brunswick High School

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 Stadium in his 14th bout, with a second round knockout of Georgie Knox. Despite defeating four World Champions over his career, he never won a World Championship. His fiftieth consecutive victory came when Russo defeated Vince Del Orto, the European Featherweight and Lightweight Champion, in Newark, New Jersey

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.

Irving Cohen

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 was his manager, and he trained under Whitey Bimstein

Whitey Bimstein

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 and Dan Florio. Billy Graham

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 and Rocky Graziano

Rocky Graziano

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 were among his stablemates, and he maintained friendships with them until his death in 1987. Russo was inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame on November 15, 1985.