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On a similar note, I drive by Soldier Field where the fight was held a couple timesa week.
Its still going strong. The Bears play there. The thing is, they remodeled it and it looks ridiculous. They kept the original structure which is cool, but they added seats on top of it so it looks like soldier field now has some kind of space ship sitting on top of it.
Well water and stream water dont go together.

Doesn't matter who was first because you are both wrong.

raylawpc wrote:Doesn't matter who was first because you are both wrong.

Hahahahahahahahaha, might as well tell us the answer, ray, and for fekks sake let it be somene interesting.

It wasn't Rockhard Alan Sugar was it?

raylawpc wrote:Q: Who was Tex Rickard's original choice to work Dempsey-Tunney II as referee?

this is a wild guess and maybe i'm thinking of another fight but was it james j. jeffries?

I don't really understand why it was necessary to use my trivia question to take yet another cheap shot at Alan Sugar.

Bjermaine got it right. It was Jeffries.

Tex Rickard thought it would be neat to have three world heavyweight champions in the ring at the same time - Tunney, Dempsey and Jeffries. Rickard even went so far as to pay for Jeff and Frieda to come out to Chicago for the fight. Tex was unaware that Illinois' new boxing commission had a rule that only Illinois residents could officiate fights in Illinois. One wonders how Jeffries would have handled the long count situation.

Tex should have known better. A few years before, he proposed Jeffries to referee the Jess Willard-Luis Firpo fight at Boyle's Thirty Acres in New Jersey, stating that only Jeffries had the experience and physical strength to handle Willard and Firpo as third man. But New Jersey had a residency rule too, so Jeff missed out on that assignment.

raylawpc wrote:I don't really understand why it was necessary to use my trivia question to take yet another cheap shot at Alan Sugar.

Perhaps it is because you have no sense of humour, ray.

raylawpc wrote: Bjermaine got it right. It was Jeffries.

yes! the next time anyone on here says i don't know anything about boxing just remember this! please ignore the fact that i guessed. :P

Collins2000 wrote:

raylawpc wrote:I don't really understand why it was necessary to use my trivia question to take yet another cheap shot at Alan Sugar.

Perhaps it is because you have no sense of humour, ray.

Next time, try writing something witty and humorous rather than sarcastic and obnoxious - then perhaps I'll find it funny.

raylawpc wrote:

Collins2000 wrote:

raylawpc wrote:I don't really understand why it was necessary to use my trivia question to take yet another cheap shot at Alan Sugar.

Perhaps it is because you have no sense of humour, ray.

Next time, try writing something witty and humorous rather than sarcastic and obnoxious - then perhaps I'll find it funny.

Case proven.

great shots, i worked out a few of 'em but not too many. can i get them for a screen saver? i'd love the escobar/bimstein pic! some of you fellas are really good at spotting those old timers.

Who fought Sugar Ray Leonard and his brother in the space of five months?

bennie wrote:Who fought Sugar Ray Leonard and his brother in the space of five months?

Johnny Gant.

Bennie, I am still waiting for your comments on the two articles I posted which directly contradict your claim that Liston was a 5 - 1 favourite in the rematch with Ali.

Most folks probably know that Bob Fitzsimmons and Jack Johnson are buried within easy walking distance of one another at Chicago's Graceland Cemetery.

What two welterweight/middleweight champions lie buried in the same cemetery?

Hint: Unlike Johnson and Fitz, these two never fought one another.

Collins2000 wrote:

bennie wrote:Who fought Sugar Ray Leonard and his brother in the space of five months?

Johnny Gant.

Bennie, I am still waiting for your comments on the two articles I posted which directly contradict your claim that Liston was a 5 - 1 favourite in the rematch with Ali.

I did acknowledge you, Collins, and said you were right. You must have missed it.

Collins2000 wrote:

bennie wrote:Who fought Sugar Ray Leonard and his brother in the space of five months?

Johnny Gant.

Bennie, I am still waiting for your comments on the two articles I posted which directly contradict your claim that Liston was a 5 - 1 favourite in the rematch with Ali.

Awww, maybe he did. I was thinking about someone else.

Kalule lost to Ray Leonard but licked Odell Leonard a few months later.

bennie wrote:Who fought Sugar Ray Leonard and his brother in the space of five months?

didn't Duran KO Odell in the aftermath of the first SRL fight, allegedly>?

Counter-puncher wrote:

bennie wrote:Who fought Sugar Ray Leonard and his brother in the space of five months?

didn't Duran KO Odell in the aftermath of the first SRL fight, allegedly>?

Don't recall that, mate, but Duran was an animal at that time and it wouldn't surprise me.

alleged in Christian Guidice's book and i believe backed up by Leonard himself in that tome.

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Most folks probably know that Bob Fitzsimmons and Jack Johnson are buried within easy walking distance of one another at Chicago's Graceland Cemetery.

What two welterweight/middleweight champions lie buried in the same cemetery?

Hint # 1: Unlike Johnson and Fitz, these two never fought one another.
Hint # 2: The cemetery is in California.

raylawpc wrote:bump:

Most folks probably know that Bob Fitzsimmons and Jack Johnson are buried within easy walking distance of one another at Chicago's Graceland Cemetery.

What two welterweight/middleweight champions lie buried in the same cemetery?

Hint # 1: Unlike Johnson and Fitz, these two never fought one another.
Hint # 2: The cemetery is in California.

The Sullivan twins?

bennie wrote:

raylawpc wrote:bump:

Most folks probably know that Bob Fitzsimmons and Jack Johnson are buried within easy walking distance of one another at Chicago's Graceland Cemetery.

What two welterweight/middleweight champions lie buried in the same cemetery?

Hint # 1: Unlike Johnson and Fitz, these two never fought one another.
Hint # 2: The cemetery is in California.

The Sullivan twins?

No. The guys I'm thinking of aren't related.

Here's a new one: What was the last scheduled 20-round world heavyweight championship fight?

raylawpc wrote:Here's a new one: What was the last scheduled 20-round world heavyweight championship fight?

Joe Louis vs Abe Simon in 1941?

Collins2000 wrote:

raylawpc wrote:Here's a new one: What was the last scheduled 20-round world heavyweight championship fight?

Joe Louis vs Abe Simon in 1941?

Yes.

Follow-up: the last scheduled 20-round fight in the USA?