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Mushy Callahan

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the Light Welterweight title before the Berg fight. Furthermore, at the time of the Berg fight, Britain did not recognize the light welterweight division. The New York State Athletic Commission recognized the Berg–Callahan fight as being for the Light Welterweight title, however, and Berg won NBA recognition in 1931.
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in London, England. Berg knocked him out in the tenth round of the fifteen-round bout to take the title. Berg held it for the remainder of the year. There is some dispute as to whether the Light Welterweight title was actually on the line in this fight. The NBA had stripped Callahan of its version of
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and complained to him about the quality of on-screen boxing and made suggestions about how to make it more authentic looking. Warner suggested Callahan come work for him once he retired from boxing. In 1933, Callahan took Warner up on the offer, and he was placed in charge of the Warner Bros. prop
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He took the ring name of Mushy Callahan, discarding his more ethnic-sounding name, as most Jewish boxers did at the turn of the century. He was nicknamed "Mushy" from his Hebrew name Moishe, or Moses. According to Callahan, he took his last name from an Irish fight promoter at his Newsboy's boxing
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Shortly after his last fight, Callahan began to referee boxing matches, working more than 400 matches between December 1932 until November 1960. He stayed close to the Los Angeles area as a referee, so he could pursue his career in the movie industry during this period. After gaining a decade of
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Callahan retired from professional boxing around 1932. Though he could take a punch, his decline might be explained by the abdominal injuries he received in his 1927 bout with Baker and from which he never fully recovered. Callahan also suffered injuries to his hands early in his career that
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world champion of boxing. After retiring from boxing in 1932, Callahan refereed hundreds of matches, and he had a 30-year career in Hollywood, taking small roles in movies, most with boxing themes, as well as working as a stuntman, trainer and boxing adviser on movie sets.
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wrote, that he had won "in the opinion of ring siders seven of the ten rounds." Callahan had previously lost to Hoppe in ten rounds on November 10, 1927, in Hollywood Legion Stadium. Hoppe was not the quality of competition he would later face in Jackie Berg.
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in the ninth round. Baker had weighed in at 144 pounds (65 kg), putting him four pounds over the junior welterweight limit, allowing Callahan to keep his title despite the loss. Four month later, on November 22, Callahan lost badly to Olympic champion
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In 1934, Callahan married Leonora Summers (née Lillian Hill, 1897–1976), a former silent film actress, in Los Angeles. That same year, he converted to Catholicism. Their son, Michael Anthony Callahan, was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1967.
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On October 9, 1937, Callahan was scheduled to box in a benefit exhibition at Legion Stadium in Los Angeles for Wad Wadheim, a fight promoter who had suffered a stroke. Among the 50 or so boxers to participate were triple World Champion
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in Los Angeles from New York when he was two. He was into amateur boxing by ten, and when he finally started professional boxing in 1924, four rounds were the limit in California, so his progress in gaining experience was limited.
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In 1925, when ten-round fights were legalized in California, Callahan ran through a number of opponents, including Russel LeRoy and Pal Moran, knocking both out in three rounds. He also fought
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experience as a referee, Callahan simultaneously worked as a boxing judge for over 100 fights mostly in the Los Angeles area, including four state championships, between 1941 and 1960.
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in Chicago and then on May 28, 1929, against Fred Mahan in Los Angeles. The NBA again recognized the ten-round points decision win over Myers as for the World Super Lightweight title.
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in Brooklyn, New York, did not bode well for Callahan's chances in a title match with Berg. On February 18, 1930, Callahan put his title on the line against "Kid" Berg at
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in Los Angeles, and then defeated Hudkins in ten rounds on November 14, 1925, in Vernon, California, despite having broken bones in both hands.
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recognized the bout as being for the World Super Lightweight title. Callahan defended his title again on May 31, 1927, against Spug Myers at
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club, in hopes it would keep his family from finding out he was boxing. Callahan was a great counter puncher and possessed a fine defense.
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Callahan also fought a variety of non-title fights from 1927 to 1929. On July 13, 1927, Callahan lost a bout to Sergeant Sammy Baker by
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Callahan said in an interview of his subsequent title bout with Andy DiVodi, "My biggest thrill came when I fought Andy DiVodi in
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in a ten-round decision, although, again, he retained his title because Fields was overweight for the class.
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on March 14, 1927. The New York papers were full of DiVodi...I knocked him out in the second round." The
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and Spug Myers. Callahan fought Ace Hudkins to a draw in their first meeting on September 16, 1925, in
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department. He soon was tapped by studios to choreograph boxing scenes, including the
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Of his March 28, 1928, ten-round win over Dick Hoppe at the Olympic Auditorium, the
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Callahan was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame posthumously in 1989.
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for Mitchell's World Light Welterweight crown. Mitchell was the first champion
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in a non-title fight. The ten-round unanimous decision in favor of Berg at
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He died in June 1986 following a long illness and was buried in
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in which he also did fight choreography, Warner's 1948
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Callahan was born Vincent Morris Scheer in Manhattan's
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On July 24, 1929, Callahan first fought British boxer
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Index

A young Mushy Callahan shown in a boxing stance.
New York City
New York
Los Angeles
California
Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City
World Light-Welterweight Boxing Champion
United States
Welterweight
light welterweight
Lower East Side
Boyle Heights District
James Red Herring
Olympic Auditorium
Pinky Mitchell
light welterweight
Madison Square Garden
National Boxing Association
Wrigley Field

Art "Golden Boy" Aragon
TKO
Jackie Fields
Montreal Gazette
Jack "Kid" Berg
Ebbets Field
Royal Albert Hall
Henry Armstrong
Jackie Fields
Jack Silver

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