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Decagon wrote:Um, we all know about him. What's your next topic, that there are (surprise!) two Joe Walcotts? It's pretty much obvious that you weren't aware of the original Jack Dempsey, though.
And isn't it strange that Jack Sharkey's name is a combination of Jack Dempsey and Tom Sharkey?
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pundit wrote:
Decagon wrote:Um, we all know about him. What's your next topic, that there are (surprise!) two Joe Walcotts? It's pretty much obvious that you weren't aware of the original Jack Dempsey, though.
And isn't it strange that Jack Sharkey's name is a combination of Jack Dempsey and Tom Sharkey?
Kinda of like the whole Dick Sargeant and Dick York phenomena....
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Wasn't Jack Dempsey an early advocate of nose protection for fighters? He was so ahead of his era in this regard, his fellow NP-activists used to affectionately call him "Nose-stradamus."
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