Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 11, 2023

What did Pep do to win that round? Tire out his opponent from all that dodging?

That’s good to know. I’m going to stop taking hamsters for colds.

Our hominid ancestors lived in the trees, eating fruit for so long and so much, the ability to make vitamin C atrophied. Use it or lose it.

Hence why sailors and sailing guinea pigs used to get scurvy.

Only in Texas! I suppose they have ten gallon hats there made of snakeskin.

I wonder if the snake used to be a reptile that lost its legs during evolution.

Around here, we have the hognosed snake. Completely harmless. But it’s a good bluffer. If you bother it, it will spread its head, almost like a cobra, hissing and shaking its tail. If that doesn’t work, it will strike… but it doesn’t open its mouth… so it’s just a bump from its nose. If that doesn’t make you retreat, it will go into convulsions to make you think it’s got some horrible disease. Finally, it will play dead: laying still, belly up, mouth agape and tongue hanging out. But if you roll it over onto its belly, it will roll onto its back again, as if that is the only proper way to be dead.

I don’t think it’s over between you and snakes, Tex.

Take care, may Karma Orchestrator Mother “It May Take Me A While But I Will Most Definitely Even All Things Out” Natureord be with you, and gesundheit.

Pep was one of the most elusive and effective boxers in history. He won close to 2000 rounds in his career. One opponent said the fighting Guglielmo Papaleo (you can see why his name was shortened) was like “trying to put out a grass fire just by stomping on it.”. Then again boxing was so corrupt back in the day, winning a round without landing a punch could be possible.

Mike Tyson won the title without being hit…….

Back in my boxing days, I was known as the “One Punch Wonder.” Usually, one punch was all it took to knock me out.

“allegedly”? Does that mean it wasn’t fact-checked? It’s an unverified claim?

From Wikipedia:

Guglielmo Papaleo (September 19, 1922 – November 23, 2006 at 84) was an American professional boxer, better known as Willie Pep who held the World Featherweight championship twice between the years of 1942 and 1950.

He stood 5 foot -five.

His final record was 229–11–1 with 65 knockouts. Pep, known for his speed, finesse and elusiveness, is considered to be one of the best fighters of the 20th century; after his 199th win, Kid Campeche described his experience by saying, “Fighting Willie Pep is like trying to stomp out a grass fire.”1 Pep was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. Pep was voted as the No. 1 featherweight of the 20th century by the Associated Press2 and ranked the No. 1 featherweight of all-time by the International Boxing Research Organization in 2005.3 He is currently ranked by BoxRec as the 31st greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.

Jason is in his element today! He’s with his main squeeze!

The sun allegedly rose this morning and allegedly turned night into day…Allegedly!!!

Out here it’s rattlesnakes. Don’t poke your hands under rocks while in the wild.

Eromlig, I still can’t see you.

Keep trying my friend. Hopefully we’ll see you on here soon, with all the others.

That rubbish about humans being unable to produce their own Vitamin C is so untrue. They’re in your favorite supermarket or drug store on the aisle where they sell vitamins, duh! ;-p

Hey, Roaming, another Lone Ranger, is back from RBION purgatory and Down Under too! As I always say, Hi-yo Silver.

I covered fights for RING MAGAZINE for 10 years and I recall an old article there about thePep fight.

It was in Minneapolis against a man named Graves and NOT for Pep’s featherweight title.

Pep was a defensive master and he decided to see if he could win just by making his opponent miss.He did.