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Mysterious Billy Smith was a Canadian 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 turned pro in 1890, and in his ninth fight he knocked out Danny Needham to win the 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....
 championship in 1892. He held on to it until Tommy Ryan
Tommy Ryan

Tommy Ryan was a famed welterweight and middleweight champion who fought from 1887-1907. Ryan was considered an excellent boxer-puncher, and many consider him one of the all time greatest middleweight champions....
 beat him on points in 1894. He won back the vacant title in 1898 by beating Matty Matthews, and lost it again in 1900 to Rube Ferns
Rube Ferns

Rube Ferns also known as The Kansas Rube, birth name James Ferns, was a boxer who held the Welterweight Champion Of the World title during his career.Ferns was a tough Kansas man with a "Missouri Show Me" attitude; He was formidable and scrappy with a good punch....
.

Smith bowed out in 1915 when stopped by Jack Root
Jack Root

Jack Root was a light heavyweight champion and also fought for the world heavyweight title. He fought out of Chicago, Illinois....
.

Smith was notorious for having a very roughhouse fighting style in the ring and was disqualified more than any other boxer in history.






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Mysterious Billy Smith was a Canadian 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 turned pro in 1890, and in his ninth fight he knocked out Danny Needham to win the 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....
 championship in 1892. He held on to it until Tommy Ryan
Tommy Ryan

Tommy Ryan was a famed welterweight and middleweight champion who fought from 1887-1907. Ryan was considered an excellent boxer-puncher, and many consider him one of the all time greatest middleweight champions....
 beat him on points in 1894. He won back the vacant title in 1898 by beating Matty Matthews, and lost it again in 1900 to Rube Ferns
Rube Ferns

Rube Ferns also known as The Kansas Rube, birth name James Ferns, was a boxer who held the Welterweight Champion Of the World title during his career.Ferns was a tough Kansas man with a "Missouri Show Me" attitude; He was formidable and scrappy with a good punch....
.

Smith bowed out in 1915 when stopped by Jack Root
Jack Root

Jack Root was a light heavyweight champion and also fought for the world heavyweight title. He fought out of Chicago, Illinois....
.

Smith was notorious for having a very roughhouse fighting style in the ring and was disqualified more than any other boxer in history. A total of 13 times.

Smith died in October 14, 1937 in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....
, USA.

Jones is set to be posthumously inducted into 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 2009.

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