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Georges Carpentier (pronouced car-pun-tee-eh) (January 12, 1894 – October 28, 1975) was a French
France

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 boxer
Boxing

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. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight
Light heavyweight

In boxing, the light heavyweight division is the boxing weight classes between cruiserweight and super middleweight. The light heavyweight class has produced some of boxing's greatest champions: Muhammad Ali , Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Bob Foster, Michael Spinks, Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jr....
 and heavyweight
Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or boxing weight classes, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Organization, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing Organization....
 in a career lasting from 1908-26. Nicknamed the "Orchid Man", he stood 5 ft 11½ in (1.82 m) and his fighting weight ranged from 125 to 175 lb (57 to 79 kg). Carpentier was known for his speed, his excellent boxing skills and his extremely hard punch.

Biography
Born in Liévin
Liévin

Li?vin is a commune in France in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France in northern France....
 near Lens, Pas-de-Calais
Lens, Pas-de-Calais

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, Carpentier began his career by progressing up through the weight divisions, fighting in every division from welterweight
Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system....
 upwards.






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Georges Carpentier (pronouced car-pun-tee-eh) (January 12, 1894 – October 28, 1975) was a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 boxer
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
. He fought mainly as a light heavyweight
Light heavyweight

In boxing, the light heavyweight division is the boxing weight classes between cruiserweight and super middleweight. The light heavyweight class has produced some of boxing's greatest champions: Muhammad Ali , Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Bob Foster, Michael Spinks, Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jr....
 and heavyweight
Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or boxing weight classes, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Organization, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing Organization....
 in a career lasting from 1908-26. Nicknamed the "Orchid Man", he stood 5 ft 11½ in (1.82 m) and his fighting weight ranged from 125 to 175 lb (57 to 79 kg). Carpentier was known for his speed, his excellent boxing skills and his extremely hard punch.

Biography


Born in Liévin
Liévin

Li?vin is a commune in France in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France in northern France....
 near Lens, Pas-de-Calais
Lens, Pas-de-Calais

Lens is a Communes of France in the Pas-de-Calais Departments of France in northern France. It is one of France's large Picard languagee cities along with Lille, Valenciennes, Amiens, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Arras, and Douai....
, Carpentier began his career by progressing up through the weight divisions, fighting in every division from welterweight
Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system....
 upwards. With his first professional bout at age 14, he was welterweight champion of France and of Europe in 1911, middleweight
Middleweight

Middleweight is a division, or Boxing weight classes, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s....
 champion of Europe in 1912, and light heavyweight
Light heavyweight

In boxing, the light heavyweight division is the boxing weight classes between cruiserweight and super middleweight. The light heavyweight class has produced some of boxing's greatest champions: Muhammad Ali , Tommy Loughran, Billy Conn, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, Bob Foster, Michael Spinks, Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jr....
 champion of Europe in 1913. On June 1, 1913, he beat "Bombardier" Billy Wells
William Thomas Wells

William Thomas Wells, better known as, Bombardier Billy Wells was a England heavyweight boxer. Fighting under the name 'Bombardier Billy Wells,' he was List of British heavyweight boxing champions and British Empire Champion from 1911 until 1919, defending his title fourteen times....
 in Ghent, Belgium to become heavyweight
Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or boxing weight classes, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Organization, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing Organization....
 champion of Europe. He defended his title in December against Wells, in January 1914 against Pat O'Keefe and in London
London

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 on July 16 he beat Ed "Gunboat" Smith to add the "White Heavyweight Championship of the World" to his European title. Carpentier was also a referee during the early stages of his career, supervising a number of fights including the world title bout between Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson (boxer)

John Arthur Johnson , better known as Jack Johnson and nicknamed the ?Galveston Giant?, was an United States boxing and arguably the best heavyweight of his generation....
 and Frank Moran
Frank Moran

Frank Moran was an American boxer and film actor who fought twice for the Heavyweight Championship of the World, and appeared in over 135 movies in a 25 year film career....
 in June 1914. Carpentier was an aviator during World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 and was awarded two of the highest French military honors, the Croix de Guerre
Croix de guerre

The croix de guerre is a military decoration of both France and Belgium, where it is also known as the Oorlogskruis . It was first created in 1915 in both countries and consists of a square-cross medal on two crossed swords, hanging from a ribbon with various degree pins....
 and the Médaille Militaire
Médaille militaire

The M?daille militaire is a decoration of the French Republic which was first instituted in 1852.The creator of the m?daille was the emperor Napol?on III, who may have taken his inspiration in a medal issued by his father, Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland....
. This served to heighten his already phenomenal popularity, not only in France but in the United States and England as well.

Jack Dempsey and Geroges Carpentier in Arena Before Fight
Carpentier defended his title twice again in 1919 before dropping down a weight to challenge Battling Levinsky
Battling Levinsky

Barney Williams was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world....
 for the light heavyweight championship of the world. The fight took place on October 12, 1920, in Jersey City
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 and Levinsky was knocked out in the fourth. Carpentier's attempt at the heavyweight Championship of the world came on July 2, 1921, again in Jersey City, when he faced Jack Dempsey
Jack Dempsey

Jack "Manassa Mauler" Dempsey was an United States boxing who held the List of heavyweight boxing champions from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history....
 in front of boxing's first million dollar gate. Carpentier was badly beaten around before suffering a knockout in the second minute of the fourth round. Carpentier never fought again for that title. He lost his world light heavyweight title and his European heavyweight and light heavyweight titles the following year, on September 24, 1922, in a controversial bout with Senegal
Senegal

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ese fighter Battling Siki
Battling Siki

Battling Siki , aka Louis Mbarick Fall, was a Senegalese light heavyweight boxer who fought from 1912–1925. Siki was one of the more colorful figures in boxing history....
. His last truly noteworthy fight was on July 24, 1924, with Gene Tunney
Gene Tunney

James Joseph "Gene" Tunney was the List of Heavyweight Champions from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927....
 at the Polo Grounds
Polo Grounds

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 in New York
New York

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; Carpentier lost the bout by TKO after fifteen rounds. He retired from the ring after a final exhibition bout in 1927.

Following his retirement from boxing, Carpentier spent a number of years a vaudeville
Vaudeville

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 song-and-dance man, mostly in England and the US. He also appeared in half a dozen motion pictures, starring in both silent film
Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the Vitaphone system....
s and talkies. He made three films in Hollywood, one for director J. Stuart Blackton
J. Stuart Blackton

James Stuart Blackton , usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an United States film producer of the silent film, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and animation animation....
 in England
United Kingdom

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 and two in his native France. His last screen appearance was in 1934. Soon after, he became proprietor of an upmarket bar, Chez Georges Carpentier, in a chic Paris neighborhood. In several different locations, this is the profession he would exercise until shortly before his death.

Beginning in 1921 and continuing throughout the rest of their lives, he and one-time opponent Jack Dempsey would remain close friends, visiting back and forth in New York and Paris, getting together to commemorate anniversary of their famous bout and exchanging birthday greetings.

Death

Carpentier died in 1975 and was buried in the Cimetiere de Vaires-sur Marne, Seine-et-Marne
Seine-et-Marne

Seine-et-Marne is a France departments of France, named after the Seine River and Marne River rivers, and located in the ?le-de-France regions of France....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

Legacy

He was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame
International Boxing Hall of Fame

The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame is located in Canastota, New York, New York, United States, within driving distance from the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown and the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York....
 in 1991.

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