Eddie Palmer (boxer)

Biography

Eddie Palmer was an African American boxer who held the World Colored Welterweight and World Colored Middleweight titles. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1892, the 5'9" Palmer fought at a weight of between 142 and 156 lbs. out of Philadelphia and New Orleans between 1910 and 1925. He moved to Philadelphia in August 1911 and fought out of the City of Brotherly Love for two years. While based in Philadelphia, he twice fought future world light-heavyweight champ Battling Levinsky in 1912, scoring no decisions in both fights. In the later part of his career, he fought future world middleweight champ Tiger Flowers in 1922, losing both fights. Palmer declared himself the World Colored Welterweight Champion in 1912 after fighting Young Tommy Coleman to a no-decision in a six-round bout in New York City on 26 September 1912.

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