I ko'd a Dempsey opponent then being kod by Joe Louis?

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  1. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    ! was one tough cookie who once ko'd a famous opponent of Jack Dempsey
    and later on was ko'd by Joe Louis. Who was I ?
     
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  2. Vinegar Hill

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    I'm guessing Arturo Godoy Burt.
     
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  3. Dubblechin

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    Primo Carnera.
     
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  4. mr. magoo

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    Jack Sharkey fought both Dempsey and Louis and may have shared some of their opponents as well, but knowing Burt I doubt its someone obvious.
     
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  5. Dubblechin

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    Jack Sharkey was a famous opponent of Dempsey. Carnera knocked out Sharkey and Carnera was knocked out by Louis. (So was Sharkey.)
     
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  6. Joejr

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    Sharkey
     
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  7. gentleman jim

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    I want to say Sharkey but I'm trying to think of a Dempsey opponent he could've beaten. None come to mind.
     
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  8. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    V, you are on target. It is Arturo Godoy. In 1923 Jack Dempsey flattened
    Luis angel Firpo, then in Firpo's prime. Years later an old rich Firpo made a comeback, and was flattened by a young Chilean Arturo Godoy who was a rugged heavyweight who was in turn ko'd by the prime Joe Louis in 1940...Incidentally, though I never saw Godoy fight, I once saw him train in Stillman's Gym just before he retired. His rugged face was laced with so many scars I recall...Good show...
     
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