Word: firpo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Kearns, manager for Dempsey: " Jack Dempsey will defend his title any time and any place against either Willard, Firpo or Wills. It is a case of first come, first served." Benito Mussolini, in a telegram to Ermino Spalla, an Italian, when Spalla won the European heavyweight championship from Vandeveer, a Dutchman: " I embrace you. Now prepare yourself for the supreme trial. Having become champion of Europe, you must become champion of the world...
Jess Willard, on hearing that Luis Angel Firpo has signed for a bout with him on July 7: " Good! I know I can beat all those setups. Firpo's beating McAuliffe didn't amount to much. McAuliffe was young and inexperienced, and I can't see where Firpo showed great work in beating this youngster...
...boxing world was briefly disconcerted by the ukase of the New York Boxing Commission forbidding the Firpo-Willard fight in the Empire State. Willard's advancing years, about 42 of them, was the published reason. Tex Rickard, who has signed the fighters for the bout, was undismayed. Rickard owns the largest boxing arena in the world...
...preliminary bout Luis Angel Firpo, from the Argentine, knocked out Jack McAuliffe...
...Rickard is already figuring on a Willard-Firpo match at Boyle's Thirty Acres. The winner will meet Dempsey...