James Figg was born in Thame in February 1684, the youngest of seven children born to Francis and Elizabeth Figg whom popular opinion believe lived in a row of cottages in Priestend. Being from a poor family in an agricultural town, his early life would not have been easy. He appears to have gained himself a reputation at prize fighting and is known to have frequented the booths at local fairs.

Name: Marcel Cerdan
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Alias: Casablanca Clouter
Birth Name: Marcellin Cerdan
Nationality: French
Birthplace: Sidi Bel-Abbes, Algeria
Hometown: Paris, Paris, France
Born: 1916-07-22
Died: 1949-10-27
Age at Death: 33
Height: 5′ 8″
Managers: Lucien Roupp, Jo Longman, Lew Burston

He died in a plane crash on route to the USA. His son Marcel Cerdan Jr. boxed during the late 1960s and early '70s, and also played his father in the 1983 movie Edith et Marcel.

Name: Jim Driscoll
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Alias: Peerless/Jem Driscoll
Nationality: British
Birthplace: Cardiff, Wales
Hometown: Cardiff, Wales
Born: 1880-12-15
Died: 1925-01-30
Age at Death: 44
Height: 5' 6
Division: Featherweight
Manager: Charley Harvey

"PEERLESS" JIM DRISCOLL ( James Driscoll)

Weight: 126 pounds  Height 5'6"
Managed by Charley Harvey

European, Commonwealth and British Featherweight Champion 1906-14

Name: Luis Angel Firpo
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Alias: El Toro Salvaje de las Pampas
Nationality: Argentinian
Birthplace: Jun�n, Buenos Aires
Hometown: Buenos Aires
Born: 1894-10-11
Died: 1960-08-07
Age at Death: 65
Stance: Orthodox
Height: 6' 2�
Division: Heavyweight
Trainers: Jimmy DeForrest, Joe Boykin, Fires DeForrest
Manager: Himself

Career Overview

Although all but forgotten by casual sports fans in the United States, Luis Angel Firpo remains a cultural icon in his native South America to this day. There are statues erected in his honor as well as a professional soccer team named after him, all primarily because of a few seconds of glory he experienced in the ring with the legendary Jack Dempsey in 1923. Strong and powerful, Luis showed little true boxing craft in the ring, but size and brute force was enough to allow him to beat some of the highest ranking heavyweights of the 1920s and establish a permanent legacy as an icon of South American sports.