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Background
- Born in
- Manhattan
- Awards
- 🏆 International Boxing Hall of Fame
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Trending topics shown first"Some day, somewhere … a guy is going to come to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is never broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that the jack of spades wil…"
"I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is six to five against."
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1880
Born
Birth1946
Died
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