Joe Eagan: Boston Middleweight of the 1920s
Joe Eagan was a professional middleweight from Boston who fought during the early 20th century. A December 1920 profile in the Oregon Sunday Journal identified him as Joseph Patrick Feeney of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and described his plans to continue boxing while pursuing another chance at a world championship.
Boxing career and major results
Note: The preserved video is titled “Bobby Wells vs Joe Egan 1984.” It features the Irish boxer Joe Egan, not the Boston middleweight Joe Eagan discussed here.
Contemporary newspaper coverage places Eagan among the active Boston professionals of the period. In December 1920, Portland papers announced his scheduled bout with local middleweight Jimmy Darcy and later described Eagan’s appearance in the ring. A 1922 Morning Oregonian report again identified him as a Boston middleweight.
The available historical material supports writing about Eagan as a boxer; it does not substantiate a broader legacy as a trainer of those champions.
Sources
- Oregon Sunday Journal, Dec. 26, 1920: Joe Eagan profile
- Oregon Daily Journal, Dec. 30, 1920: report on Eagan’s Portland appearance
- Morning Oregonian, Apr. 17, 1922: Eagan identified as a Boston middleweight
Tags
Boxing, Boxing History
