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Article: Sharkey battled the best
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 19, 1994
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When the subject was heavyweight boxing, Jack Sharkey was the man
to see. After all, who else had been smacked by both Jack Dempsey
and Joe Louis?
Nobody, that's who.
Sharkey, who held the heavyweight title from June 21, 1932, to
June 28, 1933, before losing it under questionable circumstances that
would dog him the rest of his life, died yesterday in Beverly at age
91 after a long illness. For years, he had lived in Epping, N.H.,
earning renown as a fly fisherman and touring with Ted Williams. He
also owned a Boston bar.
But his principal claim to fame was that at the time of his
passing, he was the oldest living heavyweight champion and the only
man to have faced both Dempsey and Louis for ...