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I believe this Frederick Parks the British Heavyweight boxer who fought in the 1908 Olympics. I came to this conclusion after considering the date and tags, but am not sure. The picture shows how much athletes have evolved, current heavyweight boxers are physically larger and muscular while, the boxers of old relied more on there technique. Very interesting.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Parks

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I notice that these Bain photos have been used to illustrate the Wikipedia article which contains some well cited information on Frederick Mostyn Parks. We'll add this information to the caption for this image the next time we update the record.

The heavy weight boxer depicted in the photos is Frank Parks. He is my great grand father. We still have a number of his trophy cups and medals! [Gerald Parks].

Rueben Charles "Rube" Warnes (1875-1961), Great Britain middleweight boxer (75kg) with Lynn Amateur Boxing Club ("ABC"). Rube won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympic Games in London. [1] He went onto win five Amateur Boxing Association of England ("ABA") National titles (1899, 1901, 1903) with Lynn ABC and one each with Gainsford ABC (1907) and Surrey Commercial Docks ABC (1910). [2] Rube, along with other boxers from the ABA, competed at Madison Square Garden, May 19-20, 1911. [3] There is an additional LOC photo of Rube Warnes on Flickr here.

Thanks for the great links, Pixel Wrangler. We'll fill in his name the next time we update this record. The additional photo you cite shows the group of boxers and has a great link to a NYTimes archived article.

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Hi there I am the great great Grandson of Rube Warnes, Im trying to gather as much information as possible about him, is there anything else you could tell me? Or where I could find out. Regards George

Keeping the tradition alive, Anthony Ogogo, Great Britain middleweight boxer (75kg) with the Triple A Amateur Boxing Club, Lowestoft, won an Olympic Bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. [1]

I think this must be the American lightweight boxer Joe Mandot (1891-1956), aka the New Orleans Baker Boy, who was active in the ring from 1909 to 1921. Among his many ring opponents (he fought more than 100 bouts) were Joe Rivers and Joe Thiel, both of whom are depicted in other Bain photos posted today. Another boxer named Joe Mandot was a featherweight born in Mexico who had about two dozen bouts in Southern California, from 1922 to 1928, but given the time frame of photos in this collection, I'd say he's not likely to be the boxer depicted in this photo. BoxRec's website is down this evening, so I can't check for more details of his career right now, but Here's a link to "Baker Boy" Joe Mandot's bout list there for when the site starts working again.

I started a biography for him in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Marceline_Mandot

This is the new orleans boxer. He's my great uncle. I have the original photos