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Oct 28, 2017

Mike Lacche Magazine: November 2017

November 11: Veterans Day

Welcome to Mike Lacche Boxing: we honor all our veterans, community volunteers and those who give to help others this month which includes relief efforts around the world.

We honor all veterans throughout the history of the United States for their commitment to freedom. We share the story of our veteran hero, 
  

Oct 8, 2017

Mike Lacche Boxing Magazine: October 2017

Mike Lacche Boxing welcomes you, one of the more than unique 5,994 readers in 10 countries. 

Armed Forces athletes are preparing to continue their respect athletic seasons this month in the face of the Federal Government shutdown. This includes the Armed Forces Championships the first week of February 2016. 

Memories of Mike: Long before Mayweather, Ray Leonard, Mosely and De La Hoya was the World Welterweight Champion, Freddie ' Red' Cochrane.  The pride of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Cochrane and was the reigning Welterweight champion in 1942 but would not get to defend his title until the war ended.  

The WWII and Korean War eras marked a unique time in American sports history where many professional athletes joined the Armed Forces and would compete there in the sports they championed. This was perhaps the greatest unified venue of American athletics in our country's history.

Mike Lacche was an amateur but trained with the knowledge the Fort Kamehameha Boxing Championships could be his last. At the end of his journey, Mike would be an Army Champion - and then join his soldiers overseas in the real fight of his life.

Sep 4, 2017

Mike Lacche Boxing Magazine: September 2017

Lacche Family

Welcome to Mike Lacche Boxing: we honor all our veterans, community volunteers and those who give to help others this month which includes relief efforts around the world.

We have three significant family milestones this month:

September 10: Nick Lacche(brother, 125th birth anniversary is 2035)

September 19: Vildo Cerasoli(brother-in-law, family patriarch), birthday anniversary (centennial was 2016)

September 21: Mike Lacche enlistment anniversary in United States Army (1939)

Aug 6, 2017

Mike Lacche Magazine: August 2017

Justin Lacche. Lacche Family.

Jul 2, 2017

Mike Lacche Magazine: July, 2017

We honor all our veterans, community volunteers and those who give to help others this month which includes Independence Day.

S/Sgt. Michael "Mike" Anthony Lacche (La'Kay) 1914 -1989 represented the fighting spirit that our service men and women take every day when defending our freedom. In coming months, we look forward to sharing more about Mike's boxing career. We honored Mike's 100th anniversary on February 13, 2014 which included a limited edition trading card.

Joseph "Joe" N. Ermer 1918 - 2012 was a wonderful role model, artist, friend and true competitor. Joe Ermer was a WWII Veteran with the United States Navy and spent every day after his military service helping those around him. Joe was a passionate billiards player and always brought the best out of everyone.


In a recent interview with some relatives, we learned new additional history of Mike Lacche and his older brother Nick Lacche. Both were sons of Dominic Lacche andFrancesca Valentine Lacche; family has now confirmed that Mike and Nick had two sisters, believed to have been twins, who passed away young in Italia before the family moved to the United States.

July 27, 2017 also is the 22nd anniversary of the restoration of the Lacche family name, doing through the court system in Chelsea, Vermont.
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