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, ...
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 ...
Luis Angel Firpo was billed as "The Wild Bull of the Pampas." A giant of a man, with enormous fists, Firpo became the South American Heavyweight Champion with a first-round knockout over David Mills ...