{"id":4050,"date":"2022-08-24T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/?page_id=4050"},"modified":"2022-08-24T12:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T16:26:59","slug":"comedian-bob-hope-and-his-boxing-roots","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/?page_id=4050","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Bob Hope and his Boxing Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Comedian Bob Hope and his Boxing Roots<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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BOB HOPE AND JOE FRAZIER.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope boxing Sugar Ray Leonard (L) as Mickey Rooney referees.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope, Rocky Marciano and Milly Vitali.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope teaches kids how to box<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope (R) with heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson (L)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope with Smokin’ Joe Frazier<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope with Sugar Ray Robinson<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope (r) with heavyweight champion George Foreman<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Legendary entertainer Bob Hope (1903-2003) had a brief career as a boxer in 1919 fighting under the name Packy East. He had three wins and one loss, and later, once his show business career took off, \u00a0he participated in a few staged charity boxing\u00a0matches during his long successful life.\u00a0Besides\u00a0participating actively\u00a0in the sports of golf and boxing,\u00a0Bob Hope\u00a0also owned a small stake in his hometown baseball team, the Cleveland Indians.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bob Hope vs. Primo Carnera.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Hope appeared in over 70 films and shorts, as well as appeared on Radio and Television.\u00a0 From the 1950’s till his death, Hope became a Television staple for his yearly anticipated Television Specials.\u00a0On these\u00a0Television\u00a0specials, Hope would often \u00a0have famous boxers from Jack Dempsey, Max Baer, Rocky Marciano, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali, and Larry Holmes to lighter fighters like Roberto Duran, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, and Sugar Ray Leonard as guests, to name a few.\u00a0Besides his show Business career, Hope also served as an active honorary chairman on the board of Fight for Sight. He hosted their Lights On telecast in 1960 and donated $100,000 to establish the Bob Hope Fight for Sight Fund.\"HOPEBob<\/span><\/h1>\n

Often times Bob Hope frequently\u00a0recruited numerous top celebrities for the annual “Lights On” fundraiser; as an example, he hosted Joe Frazier, Yvonne De Carlo, and Sergio Franchi as headliners for the show at Philharmonic Hall in Milwaukee on April 25, 1971.\u00a0\u00a0Bob Hope also entertained Armed Forces troops all over the globe in every war from World War II to the Gulf War.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bob Hope and heavyweight king Larry Holmes<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope and Mickey Rooney in OFF LIMITS.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope and Primo Carnera in CASANOVA’S BIG NIGHT.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope Battling Jack Dempsey.<\/span>\u00a0(CLICK PHOTO TO VIEW VIDEO)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope Boxer with Bing Crosby<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope fighting Jack Dempsey (CLICK PHOTO TO VIEW VIDEO)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope getting ready to fight Rocky Marciano at MSG with Bing Crosby refereeing.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope in OFF LIMITS 1953.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope Joe Frazier<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope vs. Jack Dempsey.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope vs. Rocky Marciano<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope vs. Sammy Davis Jr. with Muhammad Ali refereeing.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope vs. Sugar Ray Leonard with Mickey Rooney refereeing.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope with Art Aragon (L) and Jimmy Roche (R) and William Holden with Jimmy Roche and Art Aragon<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Three former boxers – Bob Hope with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope with Jack Dempsey 1951 TV Skit<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope with Jack Dempsey and belt.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope, Jack Dempsey and Bing Crosby<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope, Muhammad Ali and Sammy Davis Jr.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

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Rocky Marciano, Bob Hope and Barbara Eden<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Bob Hope Boxing Ad for Texaco.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n


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  Comedian Bob Hope and his Boxing Roots Legendary entertainer Bob Hope (1903-2003) had a brief career as a boxer in 1919 fighting under the name Packy East. He had three wins and one loss, and later, once his show business career took off, \u00a0he participated in a few staged charity boxing\u00a0matches during his long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4050","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusaboxingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}