What city in America has had the best boxers?

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  • Piggu
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    #11
    Originally posted by hollister
    Who's the Boston tar baby?
    Sam Langford.

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    • hollister
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      #12
      Originally posted by piggu
      Sam Langford.
      Oh, ok thanks. For a second I thought it was a racist reference lol

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      • Piggu
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        #13
        Originally posted by hollister
        Oh, ok thanks. For a second I thought it was a racist reference lol
        It does sound like a racist term. That's what I thought it was when I first heard it because that term was used on a Saturday Night Live skit with Richard Pryor.

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        • RiverCityMike
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          #14
          Originally posted by hollister
          Oh, ok thanks. For a second I thought it was a racist reference lol
          I think that eventually it did become a racist term, but at first it was a term used for those workers because they would be covered head to toe black. Chimney sweeps early in history were the same, known to be covered in soot.

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          • RiverCityMike
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            #15
            Our city sucks now, but I've heard that Louisville, KY has had 5 heavyweight champs. I only know of 3--Ali, of course, Jimmy Ellis and Greg Page.

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            • Parody
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              #16
              Philadelphia and Brooklyn

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