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Ohio boxing great passes away

One of boxing's all-time greats passed away in Cleveland Wednesday due to complications from pneumonia. 92-year-old Jimmy Bivins fought as a heavyweight from 1940 to 1955. He defeated many of the top boxers of the era but did not get a shot at a championship. Bivins was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1999. 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.