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Lionel Rose: Boxer whose world title victory helped bring white and black Australia together | The Independent | The Independent
![1972 - World Title Match In Tokyo. Australian Wins Bantam Crown: Lionel Rose, the Australian aborigine boxer became the new world bantamweight champion after beating ''Fighting'' Harada ny unanimous decision Tuesday night ( 1972 - World Title Match In Tokyo. Australian Wins Bantam Crown: Lionel Rose, the Australian aborigine boxer became the new world bantamweight champion after beating ''Fighting'' Harada ny unanimous decision Tuesday night (](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/FAC9R1/1972-world-title-match-in-tokyo-australian-wins-bantam-crown-lionel-FAC9R1.jpg)
1972 - World Title Match In Tokyo. Australian Wins Bantam Crown: Lionel Rose, the Australian aborigine boxer became the new world bantamweight champion after beating ''Fighting'' Harada ny unanimous decision Tuesday night (
The Sovereign Nation - Lionel Rose vs Japanese Fighting Harada Lionel Edmund Rose MBE (21 June 1948 – 8 May 2011) was an Australian bantamweight boxer, the first Indigenous Australian to win
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Lionel Rose's world championship 50 years on · Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
![Lionel Rose, World Champion Bantam Weight Boxer before departing to the USA to defend his title, National Portrait Gallery Lionel Rose, World Champion Bantam Weight Boxer before departing to the USA to defend his title, National Portrait Gallery](https://www.portrait.gov.au/files/5/6/e/c/i14489.jpg)