Former Colorado heavyweight boxing champ Eddie Bohn opened the Pig 'N Whistle Restaurant as a hamburger stand and gas station, but it quickly became the favorite spot for his athlete friends and their high jinks. Yankees player and future manager Billy Martin once led a chase for a Stock Show pig through the nearby streets. Heavyweight champion and Colorado native Jack Dempsey and Bohn would fight each other sitting down in the restaurant; Bohn, legend has it, knocked out one of Dempsey's teeth. The restaurant closed down following Bohn's death in 1990, and the sign has since been removed.
