Recruited from the audience

Every once in a while, I get a good question E-Mailed to me. I just received this one and I thought it would be good to see what answers you guys come up with.

What former World Champion was recruited from the audience to replace a boxer that was not able to appear, not once, but twice?

 

My first thought was Charley 'Devil' Green...but a world champ? It's a total guess...but it sounds like something Fritzie Zivic would do(?)

 

Willie Ritchie, lightweight champion 1912
subbed for fighter while only 14 and was kod 2
Subbed for Ad Wolgast against Freddie Welsh, lost close 20rd dec.

 

Is it a Mexican bantamweight, h?

 

This is the only hint I got:

Now this was prior to 1925 and it happen in the same year!

 

Johnny Dundee

 

That was one of my choices as well.

 

Battling Levinsky

 

I came up with several possible answers and both Dundee and Levinsky were among them. We must be using the same sources.

 

Isidro Garcia was recruited while he was eating some donuts in the audience as a spectator. He borrowed another fighters trunks and wento on to win the WBO flyweight title over Jose Lopez

 

He was the only one right?