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BOB FITZSIMMONS .V. JIM CORBETT MAR. 17 1897 |
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The fight was a brutal battle.
Corbett had won the heavyweight title in 1892 by knocking out the legendary Sullivan in the 21st round, but he had fought only once officially since. Nevertheless, he put a bloody beating on Fitzsimmons. But in the 14th round, Fitzsimmons landed a powerful blow near Corbett's heart, and the champion went down. The blow that was recorded as the "solar plexus punch."
"It took the air right out of Corbett," Kaplan said.
Nearly two years later, Fitzsimmons faced a much bigger opponent in Jim Jeffries, the 218-pound former sparring partner of Corbett, on Coney Island. Before the fight, Fitzsimmons was asked about his chances against Jeffries.
"The bigger they come, the harder they fall," Fitzsimmons said, coining a phrase that would become famous.
But it was Fitzsimmons who fell: Jeffries stopped him in the 11th round. Fitzsimmons also lost the rematch, quitting in the eighth round because of broken knuckles he suffered trying to knock out Jeffries.
Fitzsimmons continued fighting in shows and exhibitions - he won the light heavyweight championship at 41 - until he was 51 years old. He spent his remaining years touring with a vaudeville group and as an evangelist until his death in 1917.
FOUND IN SPOKANE WASHINGTON IN EMPTY LOT WHERE A HOUSE USE TO STAND. FOUND BY MICHELLE COSTON
03-07-04
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Submitted by: MICHELLE COSTON |
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