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Here is a brief but interesting interview with heavyweight fighter Homer Smith
Were he is asked who was the hardest hitter he had ever fought,
Jack Dempsey or Luis Firpo?

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WH ... 2530218&dq

Nice article! Really enjoyed it.

Cutman Scabbers wrote:Nice article! Really enjoyed it.

Me too - and all the other old news as well. That Google Browse All Newspaper archives is rather fascinating. I never knew about that.

Yes,What Homer Smith had said about the difference to being hit by Dempsey and Firpo t.
Reminded me of what George Chuvalo had once answered about who hit him hardest,Frazier or Foreman.
He dais gettin hit by Frazier was like getting hit by a cadillac going 100 miles an hour.
and getting hit by Foreman was like getting hit by a Mack truck at 50 miles an hour.

In Jack Johnson's autobiography IN THE RING AND OUT(1927)page 137,Johnson claimed he had knocked down Homer Smith "sixteen' times in their 10 round bout In Montreal Canada.But possibly that may have been one of the many typos in the book.Perhaps he really meant six times.