Very intriguing story. Nice article. I couldn't find him in boxrec except the forum even as "Kid Dundee".
Boxing Record Archive • View topic - Boxer/strongman "Kid Dundee", 104, dies
Rest In Peace, Joe Rollino
By Robert Mladinich
While the world’s best pound-for-pound fighters interchange on a regular basis, few people can dispute the fact that Joe Rollino was the world’s strongest man for many years.
Although only 5’4” tall and about 155 pounds, the 103 year old Rolino, who as Kid Dundee says he had about 100 fights as an “armory boxer” in the 1920s, is still quite a specimen.
Not only is he physically agile and loose, he is mentally lucid and sound. His memory is nothing short of astounding, especially when you consider that he fought at about 122 pounds, often against boxers weighing 50 pounds more than he did.
“I was a good boxer and I could take a good punch,” he said. “Fighters would hit me in the jaw and I’d just look at them. You couldn’t knock me out. If we got in a clinch, no one could move me because I was so strong.”
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