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Your dad had no pro boxing career that we can verify. We have people who have record books, magazines, newspapers, etc., and there is not anything on your father. I'm not going to enter a record, that you yourself admit is questionable. You can't even give me one opponent or date that matches an exsisting one in the database. For me that is a non-starter.
Don't feel bad, about being let down in this regard. Sons and grandsons make requests for records, or verification of stories they've heard, only to have them turn out to be false all the time. I've heard of people claiming dad was an amateur champion, fought some big name fighter, stuff that with a little research turns out to be completely false.
Don't feel bad, about being let down in this regard. Sons and grandsons make requests for records, or verification of stories they've heard, only to have them turn out to be false all the time. I've heard of people claiming dad was an amateur champion, fought some big name fighter, stuff that with a little research turns out to be completely false.
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Like Matt says, it's nothing to feel bad about...unless your some cat that works for a certain organization, but things like this has happened quite a bit...I even read one time where someone's grandpa had been telling a fable for decades...as far as I know the story still is being repeated, but thing is...no one that I know has ever heard the story of Jack Dempsey being knocked out in an army exhibition match...did it happen, I don't know, but I would bet everything that I have that it didn't because something of that nature would have gotten a lot of press, at least in the boxing magazines. I don't know if Dempsey ever had any army exhibition bouts...he was in the coast guard, but that one certain grandpa evidently knew how to spread it on extra thick!
like for example
HAPPYMAN (not even a boxers full name but you won't put my dad when he was a pro) by the way my dad confirmed they were real pro bouts
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=200631
HAPPYMAN (not even a boxers full name but you won't put my dad when he was a pro) by the way my dad confirmed they were real pro bouts
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=200631
