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"Iron" Jack McFee

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"Iron" Jack McFee (b. 1904, d. 1992) earned his nickname in the 1927 fight when he allowed six men to beat on him at once for three minutes with no visible signs of damage, even from a Jibblies Punch. He then retaliated, killing all six. He finished fifty-sixth that year.

Outside of his being a member of the Twenty-Three Skidoos, he is most renowned for his takedown of Bolo G. Readmore in the 1931 fight. He knocked the highly touted Readmore out of the fight with a broken jaw, but that isn't the impressive part. The impressive part is that he punched Readmore when "Slick" Willy Gils was standing between the two men at the time. This is widely known by fight historians as the KO-Bab Punch.

The pre-fight conversation between Young Jude Surrency and McFee, according to the recollections of the two fighters, went as follows:

Surrency: Well.
McFee: Well.
Surrency: SONUVABITCH!

The fight ended when Surrency dropped McFee on his head twenty times in a row. Jack got back up the first nineteen times and almost made it to his feet the twentieth before collapsing in exhaustion.

Like his colleagues, McFee spent the rest of his life watching the Fights alongside Surrency. McFee died in 1992.

[edit] Record

  • 1927 - Eliminated on Day 3, 56th man standing.
  • 1928 - Eliminated on Day 3, 21st man standing.
  • 1931 - Eliminated on Day 3, 41st man standing.
  • 1932 - Eliminated on Day 3, 22nd man standing.
  • 1933 - Eliminated on Day 3, 4th man standing.

Several historians lament McFee taking two years off from the fight to focus on bootlegging as he showed remarkable promise in his first two fights and showed considerable signs of rust on his return to the fight in 1931.

[edit] Quotes

"Well, honestly, I didn't really think much at all about 'Slick' standing there. I just got tired about hearing about this Bolo sumbitch and took a swing at him. Too bad Gils got in the way, I'da killed Readmore if Willy hadn't taken most a th' hit." - Told to Wilton Rowley during 1974.

"Carmichael? Yeah, I remember him. When it happened, Jude says 'well, I'll be a sonuvabitch.' Then he turns to me and says 'Jackie, tell me what I just saw.' I told him 'Jude, that sumbitch just tore his own head off.' Jude says "that's what I thought I saw. I'll be a sonuvabitch." - "Iron" Jack McFee; interview with Bob Raffles, 1982.

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