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SAMUEL
SECREET |
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1988 - BOXING |
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Sammy Secreet of McDonald was an
amateur and professlonal boxer from 1938 through 1950 with an overall
404-39 record with three draws.
He won the Pittsburgh Diamond Belt tournament from 1937 through 1939 and
as a pro was ranked third in the world in the welterweight division in
1942.
He defeated junior welterweight champion Maxie Berger twice in the 1940s
and met all-time boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson in a non-title fight.
He also split-two decisions with Harold Green, who decisioned Rocky
Graziano twice.
Secreet, a native of Fairmont, WV., was an outstanding baseball player
in his youth and played on a sandlot team in West Virginia and American
Legion squads in McDonald and Canonsburg. He served as a boxing
instructor in the U.S. Navy in World War II.
He was involved in a rare double knockout in Detroit in 1941 when he and
his opponent Pat Carroll both suffered eye cuts and the referee declared
a TKO for both men in the seventh round. Secreet was ahead on points at
the time.
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