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Una tarde loca en Nueva Jersey Imagen del recinto en el que se disputó la pelea al fondo. A la izquierda, George Carpentier, a la derecha, Jack Dempsey La hoja de servicios de Tex Rickard le convertiría en un personaje ideal de cualquier novela ambientada en el Oeste americano. Criado en Texas, donde se instaló junto a sus padres cuando solo tenía cuatro años, fue buscador de oro, jugador de póker profesional, dueño de varios salones de juego, comisario, amigo del legendario Wyatt Earp y promotor de pequeñas peleas de boxeo a las que no sacaba demasiado rendimiento. Pero todo cambió para él cuando se instaló en la costa este y comenzó a ganar peso en la sociedad neoyorkina y unió sus pasos a ....
Alerts Professional boxing had come a long way in the half-century that preceded March 8, 1971, the night Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali stepped into the Madison Square Garden ring for what remains history’s greatest heavyweight championship fight. Advertisement Fifty years earlier, in a previously-billed “Fight of the Century,’’ Jack Dempsey had met Georges Carpentier in a makeshift wooden arena constructed to hold 120,000 fans at a place called Boyle’s Thirty Acres across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The only way to see the fight was to be there, and if you were anywhere in the outer reaches of the vast amphitheater, you needed binoculars or a telescope to see the minuscule figures in the distant ring. ....