Georgios "George" A. Contas (August 25, 1890 – September 21, 1971) also known as George Knockout Brown was a Greek American middleweight boxer from Chicago, Illinois. Biography He was born on August 25, 1890, in Sparta, Greece. His family moved to Chicago, Illinois. He traveled many times to Australia to fight. After his boxing career, he was a Sergeant in the Cicero IL Police Department. George and his wife, Sally, had no children. References Welterweight boxers 1890 births Year of death missing American male boxers Greek male boxers Greek emigrants to the United States Boxers from Chicago Sportspeople from Sparta, Peloponnese