Amateur and professional boxer. Son of a New Orleans police officer. Boxing career: National AAU middleweight and heavyweight champion, 1896; sparring partner for heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, 1919-1926; fought 150 professional bouts in eleven years, including 1924 fight with Gene Tunney for light-heavyweight championship of the world. Business career: after retiring from the ring, became a New Orleans contractor, real estate agent. He and his wife owned a string of nightclubs in the New Orleans French Quarter. Moved to California in1948 where he later appeared in a minor supporting role in the movie Dragonfly (1976). Married. Children: Paul and Marty, Jr. Sources: New Orleans States-Item, September 19, 1978; New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 19, 1978; and IMDb online movie database.
Amateur and professional boxer. Son of a New Orleans police officer. Boxing career: National AAU middleweight and heavyweight champion, 1896; sparring partner for heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, 1919-1926; fought 150 professional bouts in eleven years, including 1924 fight with Gene Tunney for light-heavyweight championship of the world. Business career: after retiring from the ring, became a New Orleans contractor, real estate agent. He and his wife owned a string of nightclubs in the New Orleans French Quarter. Moved to California in1948 where he later appeared in a minor supporting role in the movie Dragonfly (1976). Married. Children: Paul and Marty, Jr. Sources: New Orleans States-Item, September 19, 1978; New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 19, 1978; and IMDb online movie database.
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