People, Sep. 27, 1954

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Onetime World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey, 59, popped up in Buenos Aires on his first visit to the Argentine, where he was greeted by President Juan PerĂ³n (in whose honor, as "the world's first sportsman," a boxing festival was being staged) and an old ring foe, Argentina's Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo. Argentines have always believed that Firpo, who lost the 1923 fight by a k.o. in the second round after Dempsey knocked him down nine times, really won it in the first, when he smashed Dempsey...

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