Vince Dundee the former New York State 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...

 champion of the world was born Vincenzo Lazzara in Sicily in 1904.

Personal

The Lazzara family emigrated from Sicily to the United States and lived in Baltimore. Following in the footsteps of his older brother, former World Welterweight Champion Joe Dundee

Joe Dundee

Salvatore Lazzara, better known by his boxing alias Joe Dundee, was an American boxer. His career began with two straight losses in four-round bouts. Nevertheless, Dundee continued boxing....

, he changed his name to Dundee and became a professional boxer.

Professional career

In 1933, after nearly 11 years in the ring, Dundee defeated Lou Brouillard over 15 rounds to capture the New York State middleweight title of the world. Dundee lost his claim to the crown when he was outpointed by Teddy Yarosz

Teddy Yarosz

Teddy Yarosz was an American athlete in boxing. He held the world middleweight boxing championship during 1934-1935.-Personal life:Yarosz was born in Monaca, Pennsylvania. His brother Tommy Yarosz also became a boxer....

on September 11, 1934.

Dundee retired with a record of 118 wins (28 knockouts), 20 losses and 13 draws.

Life After Boxing

Dundee survived a collision with a train that hurled his automobile several hundred feet not long after his boxing career ended. He later was stricken with Multiple Sclerosis in 1942.

Death

Dundee died at a Glendale, California sanitarium in 1949 of MS. He was survived by his wife, Connie; son, Vince Jr.; and father, Louis Lazzara of Boston.