Boston Tom McMustache: Fistic Finesse & Fury

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  1. It's Ovah

    It's Ovah I am very feel me good. Full Member

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    His opponents!
     
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    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Indeed John Edward Kelly took the name Norpareil Jack Dempsey after seeing the original Norpareil Jack Dempsey, Norpareil Norpareil Jack Dempsey, box rings around the Heavyweight Champion of England Ted Jem, The Tower of Islington. Dempsey brought a band with him, and thoroughly out boxed him without ceasing to dance the polka.

    It is said that his favorite trick was to feint a forearm blow, and then headbut his opponent, however when he tried this against Bostom Tom, Tom would feint a headbut of his own, and then use a forearm to the neck to set up a throw.
     
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    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    This is a myth that history has confused.

    Boston Tom ran the original Jack Dempsey, known as Pareil Jack Dempsey, out of the record books.

    That’s why the other guy, actually the second Jack Dempsey chose Nonpareil Nonpareil Jack Dempsey as his name. Then Tom showed up at his gym and in on mighty swat of his right hand knocked one of the Nonpareils right off his name.
     
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    escudo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Not gonna lie minus the roadwork that would be a pretty sweet life.
     
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    escudo Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He'd find a cow and show it what's for with a series of contemptable racial slurs. He only chewed and spit out raw beef he bit from the live cow afterward. For dinner he ate veal. The original Mike Tyson.
     
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    Undefeated!
     
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    choklab cocoon of horror Full Member

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    I still say Boston Tom never looked better than the night he dazzled against kid Leprechaun. It came after the rematch with shillelagh Calhoun and before the no decision bout with Mysterious Billy Pickles. It was pickles who later went on a crime spree in Texas with Legs Carson during the famous TugBoat massacre of 1907.
     
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    You’re getting him mixed up with Lucky Sambo.
     
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  9. It's Ovah

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    Ah, Mysterious Billy Pickles. Now there's a name I've never heard of before.

    An astounding fighter, from all I haven't read or heard about him.
     
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    Pickled eel pies!
     
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    His evasive skills were so good that historians still don't know whether he existed at all.

    Rumor has it that Mysterious Billy Pickles was captured on film sparring with Greb, another fighter who probably never existed.
     
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    Modern training techniques can't stand up to running a saw through a tree and sparring a kangaroo.
     
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    Didn't Lucky Sambo defeat Chocolate Negro Kid? I seem to recall a thread about that topic...
     
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    The film of Greb "shadowboxing" is actually film of him sparring with Mysterious Billy Pickles. Greb looks so awkward because he's sparring with a fighter so evasive that not even a camera could capture him.

    EDIT: I just realize I got beaten to the joke elsewhere.
     
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    Rare HBO Special: 24/7 Boston Tom McMustache vs Mysterious Billy Pickles II ... featuring footage from McMustache-Pickles I ... followed by a beer to wash down the win!

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