Harry Jeffra was an American boxer. Born in Baltimore

Baltimore

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, Maryland

Maryland

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, he was a former world bantamweight

Bantamweight

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 and NYSAC featherweight

Featherweight

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 boxing champion. Jeffra's career spanned from 1933 to 1950, and his final record showed 93 wins (27 KOs) 20 losses and 7 draws.

Jeffra captured the bantamweight title by outpointing Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

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 great Sixto Escobar

Sixto Escobar

Sixto Escobar was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. Competing in the bantamweight division, he became Puerto Rico's first world champion....

 on September 23, 1937. Escobar, however, regained the title by outpointing Jeffra on February 20, 1938. The two met again with no title on the line. In what would be Escobar's last fight, Jeffra was awarded a 10 round decision.

Jeffra then moved up in weight to featherweight

Featherweight

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, where he fought several bouts against Joey Archibald

Joey Archibald

Joey Archibald was the former world boxing featherweight champion. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island....

. On September 28, 1939, Archibald successfully defended his world featherweight title against Jeffra when he was awarded a very controversial split decsiion after 15 rounds. Most writers scored the fight for Jeffra.

On May 20, 1940, Jeffra outpointed Archibald to win the NYSAC version of the world featherweight crown, but lost the title back to Archibald on May 12, 1941.Harry defeated such men as Lou Salica, Joey Archibald

Joey Archibald

Joey Archibald was the former world boxing featherweight champion. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island....

, "Pittsburgh" Jackie Wilson, Sixto Escobar

Sixto Escobar

Sixto Escobar was a Puerto Rican professional boxer. Competing in the bantamweight division, he became Puerto Rico's first world champion....

, Phil Terranova

Phil Terranova

Phil Terranova was the former NBA world boxing featherweight champion. Terranova won the crown when he KO'ed Jackie Callura on August 16, 1943, and lost the belt when he was outpointed by Sal Bartolo on March 10, 1944.Terranova retired with a record of 67 wins , 21 losses and 11 draws...

, Ruby Bradley, Tommy Forte, Joey Iannotti, Mike Raffa, Indian Quintana, Nicky Jerome and Bill Speary. Harry was inducted into the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1982.
Jeffra died in September 1988.