Jack Sharkey

And to catch the left hook and throw it at the same time is just...

Who else has done it? Jack Sharkey did it a lot against Jack Dempsey.

He landed a few really good ones there.

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Broome County historian Roger Luther joins us, and it is brought to you by AVRE.

100 years ago today, Jack Sharkey is coming home.

Big welcome home dinner at the Elks Club on Washington Street is being planned for the Binghamton-born heavyweight boxer Jack Sharkey when he returns next week following a match in New York City.

Police in Johnson City are cracking down on Halloween celebrators where youngsters are causing considerable trouble soaping windows in automobiles.

Several windows have been broken by children throwing vegetables and stones on porches.

I, as far as that, we never did that when we were, we threw a little toilet paper maybe, but that was about it.

Um, yeah.

The first one there, Jack Sharkey.

Broome County historian Roger Luther joins us, and it is brought to you by AVRE.

100 years ago today, Jack Sharkey is coming home.

Big welcome home dinner at the Elks Club on Washington Street is being planned for the Binghamton-born heavyweight boxer Jack Sharkey when he returns next week following a match in New York City.

Police in Johnson City are cracking down on Halloween celebrators where youngsters are causing considerable trouble soaping windows in automobiles.

Several windows have been broken by children throwing vegetables and stones on porches.

a person that lived here in the southern tier of upstate New York in Binghamton, a heavyweight boxer.

He was a big name back in the day.

But Jack Sharkey, when he retired from boxing, he opened a bar called Sharkey's.

His solar plexus punch, his famous punch, was one of legend.

And in 1891, he won the middleweight championship of the world from the legendary Jack the Nonparelli Dempsey.

And in a brutal fight, Fitzsimmons reportedly knocked Dempsey down 13 times and begged him to quit.

Eventually, Fitzsimmons knocked Dempsey out cold and he actually carried him back to his stew, which I thought was a very sportsman-like thing to do.

In 1897, he met the reigning heavyweight champion, Jim Corbett.

Corbett outboxed Fitzsimmons in the early rounds and was beating him badly but the smaller man kept on coming and he eventually tired Corbett out and he beat him by knockout

so Fitzsimmons is officially the smallest man to ever hold the heavyweight championship he eventually did lose it to Jim Jefferies a much larger heavyweight for the standards of that time and So the former middleweight and heavyweight champion did actually go on to win a light heavyweight crown at the age of 40 years old and went on to fight for another 11 more years.

Incredible.

Jimmie Braddock was a likely prospect, but started losing as many fights as he was winning.

Tommy Loughran, the light heavyweight champ, moved into the heavyweight division, but was KO'd by Jack Sharkey.

Sharkey was recognized as the top contender.

There were some rumblings from Europe about a young German with a lethal right hand and a facial resemblance to Jack Dempsey.

When he learned about the massacre that he'd narrowly escaped, he had only one thing to say about it to reporters.

George Moran told them, "Only Capone kills like that." News of the massacre spread quickly across Chicago, the Midwest, then from coast to coast, and was even splashed on the front pages of papers in Miami, where Al Capone was conveniently hosting guests for the impending world championship boxing match between Jack Sharkey and Young Stribling.

Capone had invited more than 100 guests to Palm Island, including sports writers, gamblers, show business people, racketeers, and politicians.

Capone was a boxing enthusiast and had wagered large on Sharkey to win the title.