Duane D. Horsman 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...

 professional boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 from Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

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Personal life

Horsman was a native of Chatfield, Minnesota

Chatfield, Minnesota

Chatfield is a city in Fillmore and Olmsted counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 2,779 at the 2010 census. The city's area is split almost equally between the two counties...

. He was survived by his wife Doris, whom he had married in 1958. They had eight children.

Professional career

In a career that spanned from 1959 to 1970, Duane Horsman amassed a record of 48 wins (34 by knockout) and 13 losses, with 2 draws. He began his career with 12 straight wins and was undefeated after 20 fights. Before his career was over he had fought such notable opponents as Clarence Cook, Sugar Boy Nando, Del Flanagan

Del Flanagan

Del Flanagan was a middleweight professional boxer from Minnesota.-Personal life:Flanagan was a native of St Paul, Minnesota. Del Flanagan and his brother Glen were known as the Fighting Flanagan Brothers...

, Art Hernandez, Pat O'Connor.

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