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Jackie Graves, alias The Austin Atom, (September 12, 1922 — November 15, 2005) was a featherweight
Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing and wrestling ....
 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....
 from Minnesota
Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
.

es was a native of Austin, Minnesota
Austin, Minnesota

Austin is a city in Mower County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States. The population was 23,314 at the United States Census, 2000. It is the county seat of Mower County, Minnesota....
.

1944 to 1956 Graves compiled a career record of 82 wins (48 KOs) and 11 losses with 2 draws. He won the Minnesota State Featherweight Title in only his seventh professional fight, and before his career was over he had fought such luminaries as Willie Pep
Willie Pep

Guglielmo Papaleo was an United States boxing who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep fought a total of 242 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of fights even for a fighter of his era....
, Lefty LaChance, Glen Flanagan
Glen Flanagan

Glen Flanagan was a featherweight professional Boxing from Minnesota....
, Jackie Blair, Miguel Acevedo
Miguel Acevedo

Miguel Acevedo was a featherweight professional Boxing from Cuba....
, Del Flanagan
Del Flanagan

Del Flanagan was a middleweight professional Boxing from Minnesota....
, Corky Gonzales, Redtop Davis
Teddy Davis (boxer)

Teddy "Redtop" Davis, alias Murray Cain , was a featherweight professional Boxing from South Carolina....
, and on August 23rd, 1948, the dubiously named, "Willie Cheatum."

es is named as the foil against whom Willie Pep
Willie Pep

Guglielmo Papaleo was an United States boxing who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep fought a total of 242 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of fights even for a fighter of his era....
 won a round without throwing a punch.






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Jackie Graves, alias The Austin Atom, (September 12, 1922 — November 15, 2005) was a featherweight
Featherweight

Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing and wrestling ....
 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....
 from Minnesota
Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States of the United States. The twelfth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with just over five million residents....
.

Personal life

Graves was a native of Austin, Minnesota
Austin, Minnesota

Austin is a city in Mower County, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States. The population was 23,314 at the United States Census, 2000. It is the county seat of Mower County, Minnesota....
.

Boxing career

From 1944 to 1956 Graves compiled a career record of 82 wins (48 KOs) and 11 losses with 2 draws. He won the Minnesota State Featherweight Title in only his seventh professional fight, and before his career was over he had fought such luminaries as Willie Pep
Willie Pep

Guglielmo Papaleo was an United States boxing who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep fought a total of 242 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of fights even for a fighter of his era....
, Lefty LaChance, Glen Flanagan
Glen Flanagan

Glen Flanagan was a featherweight professional Boxing from Minnesota....
, Jackie Blair, Miguel Acevedo
Miguel Acevedo

Miguel Acevedo was a featherweight professional Boxing from Cuba....
, Del Flanagan
Del Flanagan

Del Flanagan was a middleweight professional Boxing from Minnesota....
, Corky Gonzales, Redtop Davis
Teddy Davis (boxer)

Teddy "Redtop" Davis, alias Murray Cain , was a featherweight professional Boxing from South Carolina....
, and on August 23rd, 1948, the dubiously named, "Willie Cheatum."

Against Willie Pep

Graves is named as the foil against whom Willie Pep
Willie Pep

Guglielmo Papaleo was an United States boxing who was better known as Willie Pep. Pep fought a total of 242 bouts during his 26 year career, a considerable number of fights even for a fighter of his era....
 won a round without throwing a punch. This occurrence is sometimes said to have taken place in the third round of a fight between the two. Contemporary reports, however, clearly indicate that Pep threw punches in the third round.

After Boxing

Graves was a correspondent for Ring Magazine for many years after his fighting career ended.