Solomon Garcia Smith was a Mexican-American boxer

Boxing

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 in the Featherweight

Featherweight

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 division. He was also a former World Featherweight Champion and was the first ever World Champion of Hispanic descent to win a World Title.

Early life

Although Solomon was born in Los Angeles, he was of Mexican

Mexican people

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 and Irish

Irish people

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 decent.

World Featherweight Championship

In his first attempt Solomon Garcia Smith won the World Featherweight Championship by upsetting George Dixon

George Dixon (boxer)

George Dixon was the first black world boxing champion in any weight class, while also being the first ever Canadian-born boxing champion.George was born in Africville, Halifax, Nova Scotia...

 in a twenty round decision.

On September 26, 1898 Solomon lost his Championship in a very disputed fight to Dave Sullivan.

See also

• List of Mexican boxing world champions
• List of featherweight boxing champions

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