100 years after winning the Bantamweight Boxing World Championship, Pete Herman might be the greatest athlete in local history, that many New Orleanians have never heard of. "After a few years, people forget about things like that," Pete Herman's grandson Ralph Marshall said. "But back then, 50 to 100 years back, everybody knew who he was."

Pete Herman is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame. A Canadian website called "The Fight City" lists Herman as the 3rd best bantamweight fighter of all-time, and his rise was rapid.

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