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Entries tagged with "Luis+Angel+Firpo":

• I Was Never a Bum – May 3rd, 2011

  “Sure I rode the rods. Sure I was a hobo. But Kearns has the facts dead wrong. I was a hobo all right. But I was never a bum..."
  
  

• Greatest KOs in Boxing History – June 18th, 2011

  Everone loves a knockout. And what's not to love? When one man's fists connect with another man's head and he goes crashing to the canvas, everyone's pulse races a little faster. The knockout can not only change the direction of a fight. It can change the direction of a career, the direction of a life...
  
  

• Naming Names in the Fight Game – August 23rd, 2011

  When people say “sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never harm me,” they could not be more wrong…
  
  

• Jack Dempsey: True Greatness – October 26th, 2011

  A fight to Dempsey was a struggle to the death. That is how he saw it. That was the kind of special fire that burned in his blood...
  
  

• Boxing's Best: Jack Dempsey – October 26th, 2011

  Jack Dempsey held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. His was one of the most ferocious competitors in boxing history. The great trainer Ray Arcel had this to say about the Manassa Mauler: “Dempsey would have absolutely beaten any fighter who came after him—without a doubt. I know all about Joe Louis and how he knocked guys’ teeth out. I have every respect for Joe—I rate him number two. But Dempsey would have killed Louis, George Foreman, any of those guys. What Jack had was God-given—you can’t develop the kind of talent he had..."
  
  

• Jack Dempsey vs. Luis Angel Firpo – January 14th, 2012

  Jack Dempsey defended his heavyweight title against Luis Angel Firpo on Sept. 14, 1923, at the Polo Grounds in New York City. Firpo, hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and known as the Wild Bull of the Pampas, was a big, strong contender whose record was 25-2 going in. Dempsey's record was 59-4-9 and he was winding down an illustrious career. Dempsey-Firpo was legendary in its day, and in certain circles no less legendary now. Although the film is in black and white (color film didn't exist at the time), and boxing rules have changed somewhat since then (for better or worse), the unrelenting action in this bout qualifies it as one the greatest heavyweight title fights in boxing history...
  
  

• Pocket Battleship: Sam Langford – February 16th, 2012

  Boxing can be a cruelly deceptive sport. It can paint pretty pictures and then deface them at the drop of a hat...
  
  

• Dempsey-Tunney 1927: The Long Count... – March 1st, 2012

  It could have been a gangster movie from Warner Brothers. You just needed Bogart, Cagney, and Robinson…
  
  

• Johansson vs. Patterson: “The Hammer of Thor” – March 20th, 2012

  "Ingemar looks good physically…so does Errol Flynn—and Errol couldn’t fight his way out of a roomful of gorgeous blondes...”
  
  

• Remember When: A Card Worth Remembering – March 27th, 2012

  Tony Soprano, Nucky Thompson, Gordon Gekko are part of a long list of movie tough guys. But that’s just Hollywood...
  
  

• Joe Louis vs. Buddy Baer 1941: “Baer Hugs” – May 9th, 2012

  Max Schmeling had won the vacant heavyweight title against Jack Sharkey in 1930 on a foul. Why not Buddy Baer?