It lasted only 237 seconds. There were 12 knockdowns. The two fighters were forever immortalized. One hundred years later, the Jack Dempsey-Luis Angel Firpo fight remains a classic. On Sept. 14, 1923, ...

A century ago, Yankee Stadium opened, beginning a Golden Age that would last a half-century. In 1923, there were two professional sports that mattered, baseball and prizefighting. While the New York ...

Two hundred and thirty-five pounds of Luis Angel Firpo,pretender to the throne of Jack Dempsey, arrived in New York from his native Argentina. The immediate objective of Firpo’s wanderings is a bout ...

1923 - Jack Dempsey knocks out Luis Firpo in the second round at New York's Madison Square Garden for his last successful defense of his world heavyweight title. 1986 - Chicago's Walter Payton rushes ...

This year, the “threes” have it. 1923. The year Yankee Stadium opened. The year of the legendary Jack Dempsey-Luis Firpo fight took place. (There will be more of the latter in a coming issue.) In 1923 ...