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Jersey Joe Walcott Grave

39° 58.518N
75° 02.622W

Sunset Cemetery
Pennsauken, NJ

Jersey Joe Walcott was the oldest boxer to win the heavyweight title at age 37. That record was broken in 1994 by George Foreman. He was born Arnold R. Cream, but took the name Joe Walcott to honor a boxer from Barbados, his father’s homeland.

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