Charlie Mohr

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Charlie Mohr was a middleweight college boxer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He died April 17, 1960 of a brain hemorrhage following an NCAA Tournament bout. Twenty-two days after Charlie Mohr's death the University of Wisconsin-Madison abolished the sport at UW-Madison. The NCAA soon followed Wisconsin's lead, officially ending their support of the national boxing tournament in late 1960 and unofficially terminating the sport.

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