Word: spalla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luis Angel Firpo, heavyweight boxing champ of South America, and Erminio Spalla, heavyweight champ of Europe, decided to have a fight at the Football Stadium in Buenos Aires. Benito Mussolini cabled Spalla: "Keep the Italian colors aloft." Thirty thousand Argentinians went out to see the fight. The fighters hit each other for 13 and a fraction rounds, until finally only Firpo hit Spalla, and Spalla sank by the ropes, and they counted...
Firpo was scheduled for one more fight before leaving his home Pampas -with Ermino Spalla, Italian, heavyweight champion of Europe, who was introduced to the Buenos Aires crowd last Sunday...
...Spalla, from the ringside, challenged the winner in both Italian and Spanish. Then up spoke Romero-Rojas, Chilean, and challenged Firpo whether he won or lost. The up spoke Joe Boykin, Chilean, and challenged Romero-Rojas...
...Erminio Spalla, European heavyweight champ, sailed from Milan to meet Firpo at Buenos Aires. Spalla won his championship title last summer from Vandeveer, a Dutchman. At the time, Dr. Benito Mussolini saluted Spalla thus: "I embrace you. Now prepare yourself for the supreme trial. Having become champion of Europe, you must become champion of the world...
...Spalla had an agreement with Tex Rickard to fight Gene Tunney in New York, Feb. 1. By sailing for South America he showed himself to be a poor business man. Flattened by Firpo, he will be no drawing card...