The scar tissue around his eyes destroyed his championship
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The scar tissue around his eyes destroyed his championship
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The scar tissue around his eyes destroyed his championship
In this episode, we trace Theodore "Tiger" Flowers' rise from stevedore to world middleweight champion and the nine-year career that quietly accumulated damage. We follow the choices, routines, and limits that led him to a routine surgery four days after his last fight and the question of how everything unraveled so fast.
Person: Theodore Flowers
Date of birth: February 14, 1895
Location: Mitchell County, Georgia; New York City hospital
Career start: 1918 in Philadelphia
Manager: Walk Miller
- Born in Mitchell County, Georgia, Flowers worked as a stevedore before turning professional at age 23.
- He brought a Bible into the ring and recited Psalm 144 before every fight as a practicing deacon.
- Flowers fought mostly on the Black circuit in the 1920s, repeatedly facing skilled opponents within exclusionary systems.
- He built a defensive, southpaw style centered on evasion, compiling 24 straight wins before his first loss.
- After nine years of accumulated facial damage, he underwent a seemingly minor surgery to remove scar tissue around his eyes four days after his final fight.
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