Word: choynski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks after one Pete McCoy had disgracefully lost a San Francisco bout in 1899, tricky, cruel Boxer Kid McCoy gave Joe Choynski a terrific walloping. "This is the real McCoy!" exclaimed a sportswriter, thus coining an enduring U. S. phrase...
...muscles are as tough as they were when 40 years ago he started to work for his father and installed a gymnasium next to 'his office. For some years he was considered amateur heavyweight champion and boxed with such fighters as Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, "Battling" Joe Choynski. When the Illinois Athletic Club was opened in 1904 he took on Jack Johnson. At the end of the fight Johnson said, "I will back Lytton against anyone in the world." Merchant Lytton was a judge at the controversial Tunney-Dempsey fight in Chicago...
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