Denver Ed Smith
Name: Denver Ed Smith
Birth Name: Edward Corcoran
Hometown: New York, New York, USA
Birthplace: Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Died: 1932-05-21 (Age:67)
Height: 179cm
Pro Boxer: Record
Division: Heavyweight
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- Dec.29, 1900. Murray, Utah. Denver Ed Smith was scheduled to box Jack O'Brien, but because of the paltry gate receipts of some $30, O'Brien refused to go on. Smith proceeded to box two others (Jim Francis and Kid Edwards) for three rounds each.
- A second bout with Mike Queenan fell through in December of 1900 when the so-called "Stockyard Giant" failed to show up. Another match arranged with one Ed McCoy of Colorado also fell through for the same reason the following month.
- In January of 1901 a benefit show was held in Salt Lake City for Denver Ed Smith. Two hundred persons attended. Smith was reportedly suffering from a fondness for liquor.
- By January of 1902 Smith, now 36, had retired to Hawaii with his wife where he started a business to train local amateur athletes. In June of the same year Smith and his wife boarded a ship for Washington state leaving behind a failed business and some unpaid bills. In Sept. 1905 a friend reports that Smith has opened a boxing school in Newport, Ohio. In August of the following year it's reported he's trying his hand as a blacksmith in Denver, Colorado and has abandoned any thought of returning to the ring.
- The Nov.16, 1914 Seattle Star published an interview with Denver Ed Smith who had been living in the Seattle area for some years working as a longshoreman.
Denver Ed Smith was reported by the January 24, 1900 Tacoma Evening News, and apparently other sources, as being the brother of fellow boxer Paddy Smith. However, one Paddy Shea was put on trial for attempted murder. During the trial Smith was brought in to testify. In his testimony he stated: "I haven't a brother this side of Pennsylvania."
There is some mystery surrounding when Denver Ed Smith actually died.
According to a write-up in the Pittsburg Dispatch, June 16, 1890 Smith stood 5 feet ten and three quarters tall.