[3] Billy Fox, known as "Blackjack", started off his career by winning 36 consecutive fights and holds the best knockout ratio in boxing history going 36 wins with 36 knockouts before he was knocked out by Gus Lesnevich in ten rounds for the world light heavyweight title.
[8] That fight was fixed by the notorious Frank "Blinky" Palermo, a member of the Philadelphia crime family, who owned Fox under the table.
[14] In 1956, Fox was tracked down by Sports Illustrated journalists, at which point he was described as "living on the edges, desolate, vagrant, despairing".
By July 1960, Fox was residing at a mental institution in Long Island, New York, and was said to be "seriously ill".
[6] Billy Fox was portrayed in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull by Eddie Mustafa Muhammad.