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North Carolina is well-known today for team sports, including basketball and football. The state was also known in the 1800s and 1900s for its role in horse racing. It is not well-remembered, however, that antebellum North Carolina sports entertainment included fistic gladiators, a form of boxing popular during this period.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 22 Issue 2, May 1974,
p55-62
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23432
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Jack Dempsey was born William Harrison Dempsey in 1895 in Manassa, CO. He left home when he was sixteen to travel the west and on his freight train trips, he learned how to fight simply to survive. His fighting career took off when he encountered Jack \"Doe\" Kerns, a fight manager. Under the guidance of Kerns, Dempsey knocked out several well-known fighters, including Jess Willard, early in his career. During his career, Dempsey amassed forty-nine knock-outs, twenty-five of which took place in the first round. On September 18, 1941, he visited Greenville with the Cole Brothers Combined Circus. Huge crowds gathered around the headliner just to shake the hand of the world-famous boxer.
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23482
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Lawrence Ed Tipton, owner of the Ed Tipton Insurance Agency of Greenville, is a former professional boxer who stood for six rounds in a match against Joe Louis and once whipped a heavyweight-boxing champion. After a successful boxing career in and out of the Army, Tipton turned down promising Madison Square Garden bouts to enter the business world.
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