Word: firpo
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...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...
Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight, is tired of heaving hogsheads on the New York water front. He issued the following blanket challenge: " I'll agree to fight Willard, Floyd Johnson, Firpo and Jack McAuliffe II, in the same ring on May 12 at the Yankee Stadium, and I don't ask for a penny. But if I stop all of them I want a match with Dempsey." It is not likely that Mr. Wills' boredom with hogsheads will have much effect on the attitude of his contemporaries. Besides being a substantial citizen between fights he is even more...
Jess has some weeks ahead in which to solve the problem. If he fails to fit his ancient frame for a respectable showing, Luis Angel Firpo has been signed to substitute at short notice...