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 ...

Dempsey, 28, is slightly more than four months Firpo’s senior. Jack was born June 28, 1895; Luis, Oct. 29, 1895. Jack Reams (Dempsey manager): “There is a lot of people I’d rather be than Firpo when ...

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 ...

1923 — Jack Dempsey knocks out Luis Firpo in the second round for his last successful defense of his world heavyweight title, at Madison Square Garden in New York. 1947 — Jack Kramer beats Frank ...

This year, the “threes” have it. 1923. The year Yankee Stadium opened. The year of the legendary Jack Dempsey-Luis Firpo fight took place. (There will be more of the latter in a coming issue.) In 1923 ...

1923 — Jack Dempsey knocks out Luis Firpo in the second round for his last successful defense of his world heavyweight title, at Madison Square Garden in New York. 1947 — Jack Kramer beats Frank ...