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jack palance
Posted: 22 Mar 2011, 19:22
by johnnykayo
does any fight footage and photos exist of jack palance (actor) ? i know he was a pro under the name of jack brazzo and didnt he fight joey maxim in his first pro fight ?
Re: jack palance
Posted: 22 Mar 2011, 19:52
by kikibalt
johnnykayo wrote:does any fight footage and photos exist of jack palance (actor) ? i know he was a pro under the name of jack brazzo and didnt he fight joey maxim in his first pro fight ?
Jack Brazzo, A.K.A Jack Palance, fought Joe Baksi in his one and only fight (12-17-1940)
Re: jack palance
Posted: 23 Mar 2011, 04:01
by bennie
That's what you call a tough only fight.
Re: jack palance
Posted: 23 Mar 2011, 04:03
by man
"Few people know that veteran movie actor Jack Palance was a professional heavyweight boxer in the early 1940s. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance a product of Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, won his first 15 fights, 12 by knockout before losing a 4th round decision to future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi on Dec. 17, 1940."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001588/bio
usually i would trust the imdb as a source ....
Re: jack palance
Posted: 23 Mar 2011, 20:07
by dempseyfire
That makes more sense than fighting Baski in your one and only pro fight . . .
Re: jack palance
Posted: 23 Mar 2011, 23:15
by raylawpc
dempseyfire wrote:That makes more sense than fighting Baski in your one and only pro fight . . .
Why? Baski had only been fighting pro for six months and was just a four-round preliminary fighter at the time.
Re: jack palance
Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 03:45
by man
can't it be that palance' fights are just among the historic
not yet put in the database? btw his recorded just vanished,
i think ...
http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_ ... &cat=boxer
Re: jack palance
Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 08:47
by orbtastic
man wrote:"Few people know that veteran movie actor Jack Palance was a professional heavyweight boxer in the early 1940s. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance a product of Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, won his first 15 fights, 12 by knockout before losing a 4th round decision to future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi on Dec. 17, 1940."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001588/bio
usually i would trust the imdb as a source ....
imdb used to be very reliable but a while back they changed it so anyone could edit/add to pages, just like wikipedia.
I've seen some complete rubbish written on imdb and they never ask for sources. I've seen wholesale copy and pasting from wikipedia into imdb too, when it's usually the other way round.
Re: jack palance
Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 09:21
by wsbuf
Re: jack palance
Posted: 24 Mar 2011, 09:27
by man
orbtastic wrote:imdb used to be very reliable but a while back they changed it so anyone could edit/add to pages, just like wikipedia.
and they changed the overall appearance as well ... for
whatever reason ... definitely did not improve.