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Sandy Saddler vs. Willie Pep Signed Madison Square Garden Ticket (Framed and Matted)
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Price: $250.00
Willie Pep turned pro in 1940 at the age of 18, coming off an outstanding amateur career in his home state of Connecticut. Pep had won the State flyweight and bantamweight championships the previous two years, in 1938 and 1939.
Pep started his professional career by winning an unheard of sixty-two consecutive fights over three years. Pep held the title for six years before being stopped by Sandy Saddler with a 4th round KO in a championship fight on October 29, 1948. Except for a draw with Jimmy McAllister in December of 1945, Willie Pep had a total of 134 wins out of 136 bouts until his loss to Sandler. Along with that 4th round knockout by Sandler, Willie Pep and Sandy Saddler would embark on four of the most memorable championship fights in the history of featherweight boxing.
This is a replica ticket of there second fight held in Madison Square Garden. This ticket is hand signed by both Legends. The historical boxing piece is professionally framed and matted sized at 11x14. What a piece for any fight buff.
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