Herbert "Herbie" Kronowitz, originally Theodore "Ted" Kronowitz-He was an American middleweight boxer who fought in the ring from 1941 to 1950. After his boxing career ended, Kronowitz was a highly-regarded referee for nearly thirty years. He resides in Bensonhurst, in his native Brooklyn, New York. Kronowitz adopted his brother's name, "Herbie", when he began to box as an amateur at the age of fifteen. He said that since elementary school he had wanted to be a professional fighter. As a youth, Kronowitz met Ben Jeby, the 1933 middleweight champion, when the Kronowitz family moved around the corner from Jeby, who became Kronowitz's role model in boxing. In 1947, Kronowitz was ranked tenth in the world among middleweights. In March of that year, he faced Artie Levine at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The crowd of 12,000 was said to have been enthralled during the 10-round battle between the two Jewish fighters. Levine won the decision, although Kronowitz claimed that while Levine "won the decision. There was no question that I won the fight." Kronowitz fought the top contenders in the middleweight division. He lost to Rocky Castellani and Vinnie Cidone in decisions. Among boxers that he defeated were Harold Green, Billy Walker, Jerry Fiorello, and Pete Mead, a native of Trumann, Arkansas, who died in 2007. On his retirement at the age of twenty-seven, Kronowitz had won fifty-four (nine by knockout) of eighty-three career decisions. There were also five draws. Reflecting on his decade in the ring, Kronowitz said:
"The thing about boxing is that it gave every one of us everything we have. I don't mean just money. It taught us how to live, how to act, how to eat, how to be physically fit. It opened doors to places that we never could have gotten into. Some made more money than others, but every boxer looks at his career as the most important experience in his life." Kronowitz worked as a referee from 1955 to 1984. He is a member of the "Ring 8" board of directors. Kronowitz served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Two of his brothers served overseas, and his younger brother was killed in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. Kronowitz was featured in 2007 in a Jewish exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street in Manhattan. Kronowitz passed away November 9, 2012 in Brooklyn, New York at the age of 89.
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Former middleweight contender Herbie Kronowitz passed away on November 9th. He was 89 years old.
Herbie was ranked among the top ten contenders by The Ring magazine from July to September 1947. That year, in a rousing 10-round bout, he lost a disputed decision to Artie Levine at Madison Square Garden. Over the next three months he outpointed veteran contenders Sonny Horne (57-12-4) and Harold Green (51-8-2) to earn a #9 rating. At the time Herbie's record was 44-8-3. His match against Green, on June 19th, 1947, was for "the middleweight championship of Brooklyn" and attracted 15,000 fans to Ebbets Field.
Kronowitz was featured in two Madison Square Garden main events, against Levine and Pete Mead. His four battles with Mead were corkers. Herbie lost their first 10-rounder but outpointed Mead in the return. Mead took the next two bouts by split decision.
Herbie also crossed gloves with Laverne Roach, Rocky Castellani, Jimmy Flood, Vinnie Cidone, Lee Sala, Johnny Greco and Joey DeJohn. He was stopped only twice in 83 bouts, by DeJohn and Bobby Hughes, but never counted out. They were the last two fights of his career.
Herbie was only 17 years old when he began his professional boxing career in 1941. He squeezed in 32 fights in two years before joining the Coast Guard in 1943. A year later he was about to be transferred overseas for duty aboard a Coast Guard cutter when he received word that his brother had been killed in the Battle of the Bulge. Since another brother was serving with the Army in the Pacific, Herbie was ordered stateside for the remainder of the war.
Herbie retired in 1950 with a 55-23-5 record (10 KOs). He was primarily a boxer whose style featured a busy left jab combined with deft footwork. Many of his losses were by split or close decision. After hanging up his gloves he used his ring earnings to purchase two taxi medallions. But Herbie never strayed far from the sport he loved. From 1955 to 1984 he worked as a referee for the New York State Athletic Commission. He always put the safety of the boxers first and was respected for his competence and impartiality.
Herbie is representative of a vanishing breed of contenders from the great Golden Age of boxing talent and activity. He fought during a time of brutal competition and was competitive with some of the best boxers of his era. There were no free passes in his day and few tomato cans to pad a phony record. Whatever Herbie accomplished in the ring he did it the old-fashioned way—he earned it.
"The thing about boxing is that it gave every one of us everything we have. I don't mean just money. It taught us how to live, how to act, how to eat, how to be physically fit. It opened doors to places that we never could have gotten into. Some made more money than others, but every boxer looks at his career as the most important experience in his life." Kronowitz worked as a referee from 1955 to 1984. He is a member of the "Ring 8" board of directors. Kronowitz served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Two of his brothers served overseas, and his younger brother was killed in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. Kronowitz was featured in 2007 in a Jewish exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street in Manhattan. Kronowitz passed away November 9, 2012 in Brooklyn, New York at the age of 89.
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Former middleweight contender Herbie Kronowitz passed away on November 9th. He was 89 years old.
Herbie was ranked among the top ten contenders by The Ring magazine from July to September 1947. That year, in a rousing 10-round bout, he lost a disputed decision to Artie Levine at Madison Square Garden. Over the next three months he outpointed veteran contenders Sonny Horne (57-12-4) and Harold Green (51-8-2) to earn a #9 rating. At the time Herbie's record was 44-8-3. His match against Green, on June 19th, 1947, was for "the middleweight championship of Brooklyn" and attracted 15,000 fans to Ebbets Field.
Kronowitz was featured in two Madison Square Garden main events, against Levine and Pete Mead. His four battles with Mead were corkers. Herbie lost their first 10-rounder but outpointed Mead in the return. Mead took the next two bouts by split decision.
Herbie also crossed gloves with Laverne Roach, Rocky Castellani, Jimmy Flood, Vinnie Cidone, Lee Sala, Johnny Greco and Joey DeJohn. He was stopped only twice in 83 bouts, by DeJohn and Bobby Hughes, but never counted out. They were the last two fights of his career.
Herbie was only 17 years old when he began his professional boxing career in 1941. He squeezed in 32 fights in two years before joining the Coast Guard in 1943. A year later he was about to be transferred overseas for duty aboard a Coast Guard cutter when he received word that his brother had been killed in the Battle of the Bulge. Since another brother was serving with the Army in the Pacific, Herbie was ordered stateside for the remainder of the war.
Herbie retired in 1950 with a 55-23-5 record (10 KOs). He was primarily a boxer whose style featured a busy left jab combined with deft footwork. Many of his losses were by split or close decision. After hanging up his gloves he used his ring earnings to purchase two taxi medallions. But Herbie never strayed far from the sport he loved. From 1955 to 1984 he worked as a referee for the New York State Athletic Commission. He always put the safety of the boxers first and was respected for his competence and impartiality.
Herbie is representative of a vanishing breed of contenders from the great Golden Age of boxing talent and activity. He fought during a time of brutal competition and was competitive with some of the best boxers of his era. There were no free passes in his day and few tomato cans to pad a phony record. Whatever Herbie accomplished in the ring he did it the old-fashioned way—he earned it.
Herbert "Herbie" Kronowitz, originally Theodore "Ted" Kronowitz-He was an American middleweight boxer who fought in the ring from 1941 to 1950. After his boxing career ended, Kronowitz was a highly-regarded referee for nearly thirty years. He resides in Bensonhurst, in his native Brooklyn, New York. Kronowitz adopted his brother's name, "Herbie", when he began to box as an amateur at the age of fifteen. He said that since elementary school he had wanted to be a professional fighter. As a youth, Kronowitz met Ben Jeby, the 1933 middleweight champion, when the Kronowitz family moved around the corner from Jeby, who became Kronowitz's role model in boxing. In 1947, Kronowitz was ranked tenth in the world among middleweights. In March of that year, he faced Artie Levine at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The crowd of 12,000 was said to have been enthralled during the 10-round battle between the two Jewish fighters. Levine won the decision, although Kronowitz claimed that while Levine "won the decision. There was no question that I won the fight." Kronowitz fought the top contenders in the middleweight division. He lost to Rocky Castellani and Vinnie Cidone in decisions. Among boxers that he defeated were Harold Green, Billy Walker, Jerry Fiorello, and Pete Mead, a native of Trumann, Arkansas, who died in 2007. On his retirement at the age of twenty-seven, Kronowitz had won fifty-four (nine by knockout) of eighty-three career decisions. There were also five draws. Reflecting on his decade in the ring, Kronowitz said:
"The thing about boxing is that it gave every one of us everything we have. I don't mean just money. It taught us how to live, how to act, how to eat, how to be physically fit. It opened doors to places that we never could have gotten into. Some made more money than others, but every boxer looks at his career as the most important experience in his life." Kronowitz worked as a referee from 1955 to 1984. He is a member of the "Ring 8" board of directors. Kronowitz served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Two of his brothers served overseas, and his younger brother was killed in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. Kronowitz was featured in 2007 in a Jewish exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street in Manhattan. Kronowitz passed away November 9, 2012 in Brooklyn, New York at the age of 89.
More info-
Former middleweight contender Herbie Kronowitz passed away on November 9th. He was 89 years old.
Herbie was ranked among the top ten contenders by The Ring magazine from July to September 1947. That year, in a rousing 10-round bout, he lost a disputed decision to Artie Levine at Madison Square Garden. Over the next three months he outpointed veteran contenders Sonny Horne (57-12-4) and Harold Green (51-8-2) to earn a #9 rating. At the time Herbie's record was 44-8-3. His match against Green, on June 19th, 1947, was for "the middleweight championship of Brooklyn" and attracted 15,000 fans to Ebbets Field.
Kronowitz was featured in two Madison Square Garden main events, against Levine and Pete Mead. His four battles with Mead were corkers. Herbie lost their first 10-rounder but outpointed Mead in the return. Mead took the next two bouts by split decision.
Herbie also crossed gloves with Laverne Roach, Rocky Castellani, Jimmy Flood, Vinnie Cidone, Lee Sala, Johnny Greco and Joey DeJohn. He was stopped only twice in 83 bouts, by DeJohn and Bobby Hughes, but never counted out. They were the last two fights of his career.
Herbie was only 17 years old when he began his professional boxing career in 1941. He squeezed in 32 fights in two years before joining the Coast Guard in 1943. A year later he was about to be transferred overseas for duty aboard a Coast Guard cutter when he received word that his brother had been killed in the Battle of the Bulge. Since another brother was serving with the Army in the Pacific, Herbie was ordered stateside for the remainder of the war.
Herbie retired in 1950 with a 55-23-5 record (10 KOs). He was primarily a boxer whose style featured a busy left jab combined with deft footwork. Many of his losses were by split or close decision. After hanging up his gloves he used his ring earnings to purchase two taxi medallions. But Herbie never strayed far from the sport he loved. From 1955 to 1984 he worked as a referee for the New York State Athletic Commission. He always put the safety of the boxers first and was respected for his competence and impartiality.
Herbie is representative of a vanishing breed of contenders from the great Golden Age of boxing talent and activity. He fought during a time of brutal competition and was competitive with some of the best boxers of his era. There were no free passes in his day and few tomato cans to pad a phony record. Whatever Herbie accomplished in the ring he did it the old-fashioned way—he earned it.
"The thing about boxing is that it gave every one of us everything we have. I don't mean just money. It taught us how to live, how to act, how to eat, how to be physically fit. It opened doors to places that we never could have gotten into. Some made more money than others, but every boxer looks at his career as the most important experience in his life." Kronowitz worked as a referee from 1955 to 1984. He is a member of the "Ring 8" board of directors. Kronowitz served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Two of his brothers served overseas, and his younger brother was killed in the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium. Kronowitz was featured in 2007 in a Jewish exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street in Manhattan. Kronowitz passed away November 9, 2012 in Brooklyn, New York at the age of 89.
More info-
Former middleweight contender Herbie Kronowitz passed away on November 9th. He was 89 years old.
Herbie was ranked among the top ten contenders by The Ring magazine from July to September 1947. That year, in a rousing 10-round bout, he lost a disputed decision to Artie Levine at Madison Square Garden. Over the next three months he outpointed veteran contenders Sonny Horne (57-12-4) and Harold Green (51-8-2) to earn a #9 rating. At the time Herbie's record was 44-8-3. His match against Green, on June 19th, 1947, was for "the middleweight championship of Brooklyn" and attracted 15,000 fans to Ebbets Field.
Kronowitz was featured in two Madison Square Garden main events, against Levine and Pete Mead. His four battles with Mead were corkers. Herbie lost their first 10-rounder but outpointed Mead in the return. Mead took the next two bouts by split decision.
Herbie also crossed gloves with Laverne Roach, Rocky Castellani, Jimmy Flood, Vinnie Cidone, Lee Sala, Johnny Greco and Joey DeJohn. He was stopped only twice in 83 bouts, by DeJohn and Bobby Hughes, but never counted out. They were the last two fights of his career.
Herbie was only 17 years old when he began his professional boxing career in 1941. He squeezed in 32 fights in two years before joining the Coast Guard in 1943. A year later he was about to be transferred overseas for duty aboard a Coast Guard cutter when he received word that his brother had been killed in the Battle of the Bulge. Since another brother was serving with the Army in the Pacific, Herbie was ordered stateside for the remainder of the war.
Herbie retired in 1950 with a 55-23-5 record (10 KOs). He was primarily a boxer whose style featured a busy left jab combined with deft footwork. Many of his losses were by split or close decision. After hanging up his gloves he used his ring earnings to purchase two taxi medallions. But Herbie never strayed far from the sport he loved. From 1955 to 1984 he worked as a referee for the New York State Athletic Commission. He always put the safety of the boxers first and was respected for his competence and impartiality.
Herbie is representative of a vanishing breed of contenders from the great Golden Age of boxing talent and activity. He fought during a time of brutal competition and was competitive with some of the best boxers of his era. There were no free passes in his day and few tomato cans to pad a phony record. Whatever Herbie accomplished in the ring he did it the old-fashioned way—he earned it.
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