My chin couldn't be dented,tough as iron ?

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  1. My dinner with Conteh

    My dinner with Conteh Tending Bepi Ros' grave again Full Member

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  2. bum of the week

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    Eugene Criqui's jaw was certainly good as gold, or at least as silver
     
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  3. hhascup

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  4. Duodenum

    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    And the one who dethroned him, Johnny Dundee, was stopped twice in 178 recorded bouts. (Super nemesis Willie Jackson caught him cold in a single round, while Al Foreman stopped him in ten very late in his career.) I think the secret of Johnny's success was maybe encapsulated in something he warned Tunney about when Gene wanted the windows of Stillman's Gym opened. "Fresh air?! Why, the stuff's likely to kill us!" Today, we know that fresh air has exhaust fumes, carbon dioxide, pollen, volcanic ash and other **** in it. Dammit, the man was ahead of his time.
     
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  5. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    BINGO, it was Eugene Criqui,who's jaw was shattered in the first World War...Criqui had a SILVER PLATE put in his new jaw...With this iron like jaw he continued his career after the war, and in 1923 kay'd the long time great featherweight champion, Johnny Kilbane, in six rounds..A few months later Criqui lost his title to the great Johnny Dundee in fifteen rounds...
    His was the opposite of a glass jaw, methinks...
     
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  6. McGrain

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    Silver isn't as tough as iron!
     
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  7. OLD FOGEY

    OLD FOGEY Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Somebody already got it.

    It finally dawned on me, but I was too slow on the uptake. Good one, Burt.
     
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  8. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Johnny Dundee had a famous habit of running his back into the ropes and rebounding with tremendous velocity...Well in 1917 Dundee tried his rebounding trick against Willie Jackson, who timed Dundee rebounding and knocked Johnny Dundee cold, in the first round...
     
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  9. klompton

    klompton Boxing Addict banned

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