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Recoleta Cemetery - Buenos Aires

Luis Angel Firpo (1894-1960) was an Argentine Boxer known as the Wild Bull of the Pampas and regarded as the father of Argentine professional boxing. But he became wrold wide famous on September 1923, when fighting in in the US against Jack Dempsey. This won the fight but In the first round, Firpo made one of his smashing rights, which caught Dempsey and sent him staggering back toward the ropes and out of the ring!

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Uploaded on June 14, 2013
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