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Billy Soose

Age: 83

middleweight boxing champion in 1941; relinquished the title in 1942 when he joined the U.S. Navy and fought in World War II; inducted in to the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1984 of a stroke

Died: Honesdale, Pa., Sept. 5, 1998

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