Career
He was a controversial contender for the World Welterweight Boxing Championship in 1904. On 29 April 1904, Kid challenged Barbados Joe Walcott for the latter"s World Welterweight Championship title. Although he was well on top, Walcott was disqualified by the referee after 20 rounds for an alleged foul.
In his career as a welterweight and a middleweight, he fought such notable fighters as Jimmy Clabby, Mike Twin Sullivan, Willie Lewis, Sam Langford and Georges Carpentier.
Kid fought over 150 bouts and retired in 1920. He died on 6 April 1934 in Los Angeles after falling out of a tenement story window.
lieutenant is not known whether it was by accident or a suicide.
