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Product Description: They still call it the most sensational fight ever for the world heavyweight championship, between champion Jack Dempsey and his hammer-fisted Argentine challenger, Luis Angel Firpo. Back in the Roaring Twenties, 85,000 packed into New York's Polo Grounds to see all three minutes 57 seconds of it...read more

Paperback:

9781785310317 | Pitch Pub, April 1, 2016, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: They still call it the most sensational fight ever for the world heavyweight championship, between champion Jack Dempsey and his hammer-fisted Argentine challenger, Luis Angel Firpo.

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In the 1950s, Arcel ran independent television fights from various cities across the USA, upsetting the monopolistic International Boxing Club run by millionaire Jim Norris with the backroom assistance of mobster Frankie Carbo, a one-time gunman for Murder Inc. He came back in the 1970s to train Duran. He last worked the corner in 1982.

Hardcover:

9780752444468 | Tempus Pub Ltd, May 1, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the 1950s, Arcel ran independent television fights from various cities across the USA, upsetting the monopolistic International Boxing Club run by millionaire Jim Norris with the backroom assistance of mobster Frankie Carbo, a one-time gunman for Murder Inc.

Gene Tunney rose from his working-class roots to become the world's heavyweight boxing champion. In 1928 he retired as undefeated champion and a millionaire to marry the beautiful heiress to the Carnegie steel fortune and proved himself to be as successful in business as in boxing.

Hardcover:

9781861056184 | Gardners Books, July 28, 2003, cover price $26.20 | About this edition: Gene Tunney rose from his working-class roots to become the world's heavyweight boxing champion.

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