New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame Middleweight Irish Teddy Mann Dies at 73
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Atlantic City, NJ (February 1st, 2025)– New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame veteran middleweight ‘Irish’ Teddy Mann, real name Theodore Manshreck, also called Ted ‘The Irish’ Man, who fought himself through 42 professional bouts, some on television, between 1977 and 1984, getting stopped twice, passed away on December 10, 2024, it was recently revealed.
An amateur boxing, track and cross country star at Central Regional High School in Forked River, New Jersey. Mann was 18-1 when he fought the late middleweight title challenger ‘Bad’ Bennie Briscoe at the Philadelphia Spectrum in July 1979, losing a unanimous decision and injured his right hand, an injury which would impede his middleweight career.
Mann went 9-14 over the second part of his career. Mann did beat by unanimous decision such middleweight veteran contenders as Richie Bennett, O’Dell Leonard, Dwight ‘Tiger’ Walker, Mike Baker and former number one middleweight contender Robbie Epps. Mann lost decisions to middleweight 160 pounds contenders Briscoe, James Green, John Lo Cicero Bobby Czyz, Vinnie Curto, John Collins, Juan Domingo Roldan, Ernie Singletary and Mickey Goodwin. After getting stopped in three rounds by Jorge Amparo at Harrah’s Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey in April 1984, Mann retired to become a professional boxing trainer. Mann was a frequent sighting in Atlantic City in recent years, chatting with this reporter while accompanying a fighter he had trained for a bout at Caesar’s a few years back. Mann wrote a book about his life, Fighting For Redemption: The Teddy Mann Story, with William Brennan, in 2011, published by Emerald Island Press. Mann was inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame on November 9, 1995.
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