I never won a World Title but I am considered one of the greatest fighters ever in my division and a Legend of our beloved sport; I beat 4 Champions of the World and 4 Hall of Famers during my career, 3 of them by KO; Speaking of knockout power, I was a pure KO artist that got half of his wins by stoppage inside of only 3 rounds; Before I turned a professional boxing fighter, I was a cook. I worked in a restaurant for long hours everyday and I was so good and competent in preparing all kind of high quality dishes, that I found myself half a step away of becoming a great Chef. While I was working there, I trained and developed my boxing skills every early morning in one of the biggest and most beautiful urban public parks in the World. Less than half a dozen years after I started my illustrious career - and right when I was about to reach my prime - World War I erupted and with it, everything was set on fire; As a natural born fighter, I spent the next 4 years of my life as a Sergeant in the Infantry, crawling, digging, killing and surviving in the trenches in the Front Line, right next to my brave comrades; When I came back from the war, I resumed my boxing career and won all my fights for the next 2 years, including minor titles of Continental dimension in 2 different Weight Classes; I fought in many different countries located in 3 different Continents; Amongst the tough fighters that I fought and beat, there's Jim Driscoll. Tommy Noble, Digger Stanley, Frankie Conway and Andre Routis; I was born in 1892 in the same Month of the great Dutch writter Victor E. van Vriesland; The small rural city where I was born, still holds one of the oldest active Casinos in the World; Who am I?
