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  • Ben Bolt
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    #1

    Busy schedule ...

    ... to survive in a mean world.

    Kid Chocolate for example.
    Just a simple tooth infection, caused in a fight, in that era could mean deadly.

    http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/9006


  • QueensburyRules
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    #2
    Originally posted by Ben Bolt
    ... to survive in a mean world.

    Kid Chocolate for example.
    Just a simple tooth infection, caused in a fight, in that era could mean deadly.

    http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/9006



    - -Don't understand the use of the video in relation to your conclusion.

    Pancho Villa the only fighter of note I know to have entered a fight with a tooth infection against McLarnin to subsequently die shortly afterwards.

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    • Ben Bolt
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      #3
      Originally posted by QueensburyRules
      - -Don't understand the use of the video in relation to your conclusion.

      Pancho Villa the only fighter of note I know to have entered a fight with a tooth infection against McLarnin to subsequently die shortly afterwards.
      I just meant it is impressive, these guys of yesterday having had fights so often and with little rest in between, and in a time when treatment after a fight and medical science wasn’t so advanced as today.

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      • drablj
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        #4
        harry greb went 45-0 in 1919. talk about being busy...

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        • OctoberRed
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          #5
          Originally posted by drablj
          harry greb went 45-0 in 1919. talk about being busy...
          Good lord that a lot of fights.

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