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Old 01-26-2013, 01:32 PM   #3436
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Can anyone guess who these meat hooks belong to??

Those are Dempseys mitts, photographed for Vanity Fair by a well known female photographer of the 20s
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Old 01-26-2013, 06:01 PM   #3437
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You got it Kernow!

Here one Bee stings for beatles

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Old 01-26-2013, 06:09 PM   #3438
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Cass - the birth of a legend - Joe doesn't look too impressed though!

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Old 01-26-2013, 06:10 PM   #3439
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Cass in serious mode

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Old 01-27-2013, 02:37 AM   #3440
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Old 01-27-2013, 02:41 AM   #3441
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Jake Killrain John L fight getting ready

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Old 01-27-2013, 02:56 AM   #3442
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Old 01-27-2013, 02:57 AM   #3443
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Old 01-27-2013, 04:16 AM   #3444
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Kid Chocolate in 1925

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Old 01-27-2013, 06:14 AM   #3445
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I bet this is what his opponents thought he had in place of fists

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Old 01-27-2013, 06:21 AM   #3446
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great photo of George Foreman and Jack Dempsey [disguised].









foreman's shirt is a bit gay
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Old 01-27-2013, 08:26 AM   #3447
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The crowd in that john L fight look as hard as the fighters lol, hard men and tough harsh times guess you had to be tough to live
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Old 01-27-2013, 10:03 AM   #3448
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foreman's shirt is a bit gay
I wonder why no one told him so at the time?
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Old 01-27-2013, 10:25 AM   #3449
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The crowd in that john L fight look as hard as the fighters lol, hard men and tough harsh times guess you had to be tough to live
Joe,watching that photo of the Sullivan ? Kilrain audience I felt as you did.
Those were hard men in a MUCH harder era...
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Old 01-27-2013, 08:12 PM   #3450
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Joe,watching that photo of the Sullivan ? Kilrain audience I felt as you did.
Those were hard men in a MUCH harder era...
Im sure you could replace Kilrain and Sullivan with any 2 men from the audience and it would be an amazing brutal fight, same cant be said nowadays though, would have been interesting living back then though
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