SUITED AND BOOTED: Gipsy Daniels [right] with manager Dan Sullivan and a young Len Harvey [left]
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IT is a result that causes the reader to do a double- take - even 92 years after the event: February 25,1928, Max Schmeling (Germany) L KO 1 Gipsy Daniels (Wales). Schmeling would stay unbeaten forthe next four years, winning and successfully defendingtheworld heavyweight title, only to lose it by split decision to Jack SharkeY in June 1932. Schmeling's 24-year pro career, only one other man - the great Joe Louis - put Max away inside a round. So who was this Welsh Iight-heavyweight who accomplished the feat?