Word: firpo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and thirty-five pounds of Luis Angel Firpo, pretender to the throne of Jack Dempsey, arrived in New York from his native Argentina. The immediate objective of Firpo's wanderings is a bout with the aged British heavyweight, Bill Brennan, at Madison Square Garden on March 14 under the aegis of Tex Rickard. If Brennan allows himself to be dispatched with the deftness and dociliity that has characterized his appearances before other young heavyweights, Firpo will be matched with Willard, Floyd Johnson, and-if fate favors him-with Dempsey...