Eddie Perkins
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Within Vinony's link graph, Eddie Perkins is referenced by 29 other articles, and connects out to light welterweight, diabetes and Wayback Machine.
It sits within the topics 1937 births, 2012 deaths and 20th-century American sportsmen.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Listeners
- 1,087
- Total plays
- 3,270
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Along with Alton Ellis, Eddie Perkins recorded a number of songs for "Coxsone" Dodd during the first few years of Jamaica's music. He left for the USA around 1965, at which point Alton Ellis recruited Winston Jarrett & Eggar "Baby Gee" Gordon to form Alton and The Flames. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/eddie+perkins">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eddie
- Family name
- Perkins
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Clarksdale
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Occupation
- boxer
- Sport
- boxing
- Country for sport
- United States
- Height
- 165
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- date of birth
- 1937-03-03
- date of death
- 2012-05-10
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
- sports discipline competed in
- light welterweight
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 99
- number of wins
- 74
- number of losses
- 20
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Categories
1937 births2012 deaths20th-century American sportsmenAfrican-American boxersAmerican male boxersBoxers from MississippiInternational Boxing Hall of Fame inducteesSportspeople from Clarksdale, MississippiThe Ring (magazine) championsWelterweight boxersWorld Boxing Association championsWorld Boxing Council championsWorld light-welterweight boxing champions