It lasted only 237 seconds. There were 12 knockdowns. The two fighters were forever immortalized. One hundred years later, the Jack Dempsey-Luis Angel Firpo fight remains a classic. On Sept. 14, 1923, ...
A century ago, Yankee Stadium opened, beginning a Golden Age that would last a half-century. In 1923, there were two professional sports that mattered, baseball and prizefighting. While the New York ...
Two 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 ...