My Great great great uncle who is Jack dempsey

I named my Pit bull after Dempsey in the 80s.Luckily my dog was a softee nothing like Jack.What a time to be the most famous sportsman in the world, the roaring 20s!

Monsters. Real killers during that era

Better lock the original copy in a vault and make several copies for family members and frame it over the mantle and keep one in the office. It's like a baseball signed by Babe Ruth. Dempsey was the greatest boxer of that era.

That's worth a lot of money

It's because beastiality was much more common and animal DNA was to be found in a lot of fighters.

@@johnrife7134 Lol

Or just all the greats

I would've loved to have seen Rocky Marciano and Sam Langford fight each other.

I'm a brother from Massachusetts like Marciano is. I like Rocky but neither Rocky or Tyson fought the level of people Ali fought: Liston twice, Norton and Frazier 3 times each, Foreman, Shavers, Jimmy Young (who beat George Foreman), Ron Lyle, Floyd Patterson I think Rocky beat tougher opponents than Tyson: Archie Moore (41 years old), Jersey Joe Walcott (38 years old), Joe Louis (37 years old), Edward Charles was only 33 What were Tyson's greatest victories ???......I would guess and say Tony Tucker but Tucker broke his hand and still gave Tyson a good fight. If Tyson had beaten a prime Holyfield (before prison), Lennox Lewis, the George Foreman who gave Holyfield a good fight and if he had beaten Riddick Bowe then I would say he had more impressive wins than Rocky and almost as good as Ali but Tyson lost to Holyfield and Lewis both of whom are younger than Tyson.......And if Tyson had also beaten Klitschko that really would have been something.......In all fairness to Tyson, Ali was only 32 when he beat Foreman.

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The black Greats??? Whats your point??? He never fought Joe Louis yet lived during the same years. He never fought Jack Johnson yet Dempsey knocked out the man who took Jack Johnson out of Boxing...

And Duran

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Thts where mayweather learned it

Possibly the very best of that era.

Yep. Very True. There was a bunch of dumb politics in boxing then. No mandatory #1 challenger. Wills was clearly the #1 challenger when instead Willard got the title shot. It should of been Dempsey trying to unseat the Champion Wills in my option.

@@majik_man Willard was chosen by the boxing "commissions" to bring the title back for the white race after Johnson agreed to lay down...but he couldn't fight a lick.. and I agree lots of fighters should've been given shots at Johnson including Langford but Jack drew the color line

@@Bruins-vq5ey There's no way Jack Johnson faked a knockout. It's been vetted countlessly & Endlessly in forums. Folktales often aren't reality. Any examination of the fight disproves this by Jack Johnson throwing everything he had the previous round before he got knocked out. He asked his wife to leave so she wouldn't see him get knocked out. Johnson is just messing with people by claiming such ridiculous thing's (he wasn't the first to be doing this stuff much like corbett).

@@majik_man jack Johnson if wanted would've laid waste to Willard...at any age.

@@Bruins-vq5ey Classic case of sensualizing a fighter. Johnson often had trouble with punches lacking steam. He couldn't knockout Sandy Ferguson in 1904 Costing him a chance at the title at the time. Sandy was afar worse fighter than Willard. His punches weren't hurting Willard. Go look for yourself its on film. He threw everything he had at willard the previous round was totally spent. Then claimed "shading his eyes" was some kind of proof he faked a knockout. Was poor sportsmanship and even then in 1915 the press thought it was ridiculous. Willard had his day just like Buster Douglass. You should read how bad the press was making fun of him for saying he choose to lay down the next few days afterwards. It was merciless. Johnson was a far better champion than Willard but he beat him fair & square.

Langford didn't box 60 rounds in a fight. The standard long version of a fight was 25 rounds usually. Fights weren't scheduled for 60 rounds that would be a finish fight which kinda ended with the bareknuckle days.

@@majik_man how long were the rounds Dempsey fought ?

@@fleadoggreen9062 15 Rounds. They were pretty standard from Dempsey to early 80's.

Marine Corps heavyweight Champions: Tunney, Norton, Weaver and Leon Spinks

Dumbest comment I think I ever seen. If you think homophobia is worse now let’s just say ur a special person

Yes the Mauler did,respectfully .

Dumbest theory ever. So many people watched his hands get taped (including Willards trainer) your just floating conspiracy with no facts. Zero chance.

@@majik_man yeah it would have been detected I worked with a man in his eighties who owned a restaurant in new York next to Jack Dempsey restaurant they used to play cards together he told me a story about how one day they were playing cards and dempsey was about sixty at the time and this big kid who was about 6 foot 6 230 or more walked up to Dempsey after having too much to drink at twenty four he was a pro boxer and he challenged Dempsey jack told him to back off he was drunk the kid wouldn't shut up so they took it outside the kid threw a right hand that Dempsey easily slipped and knocked him out cold with one punch a straight right Dempsey was real

The Biggest single reason Willard looked so dreadful can easily be traced back to one thing in my mind mind. He wasn't warmed up at all. He had no sweat on him at all, he entered the ring totally cold. He should of been jumping rope or doing something. His footwork was dreadfully slow due to being so cold. He probably figured he would get "warmed up" in no time due to past fight experience but that wasn't the case here. It made him appear far worse than he was because none of his reflexes were even warmed up yet. That's my theory (it happened) to many boxers far after him too. You can't go in so cold. Willard wasn't much of a Journeyman boxer he was a farmer and he made a very critical error due to his inexperience. In my option anyway.

@@charlesciminera5881 how bout the time two toughs tried to roll a 70 yr old Dempsey getting out of a cab..both ended up in the ER

@@Bruins-vq5ey they got off easy Mr Dempsey must have been in a good mood

Total bollocks. Tunney, won, Douglas won, end of!!

And Dempsey was considerably past his best just like Liston was against Ali

@rebelliousredneckvlogs Then why was Dempsey and Liston beating everyone else. Ali was definitely past his prime when he beat Frazier, Foreman, Shavers, Young, and Norton......and others.

@rebelliousredneckvlogs And I was talking about Ali's style being similar to Dempsey.

Bullshit! You would have been saying that about Fury, Klitchos, Calzagie, etc...who knocked out the best black fighters of the day!

didn't jack dempsey savagely beat jess willard, the same white man who knocked out jack johnson? lol

🥱 another black guy who hates on successful white fighters. Dempsey wanted to fight Wills and other black fighters, his manager didnt let him.

@@OldSchoolBoxing1 not black goofball... Another white guy that ignores the racism... Go figure...

@@guywilliams6569 umm.... he did have to fight black people, i dont think he had a choice hahahaha, not only that he had to win by knockout otherwise it was called a no decision. "not to mention he ducked and dodged a challenge..." HAHAHAHAHAHA "ducked and dogded" you have no idea who youre talking about, did you forget he fought 10-1 odds against jesse willard the largest man in boxing history at the time... it was only once he became champion he announced he wouldn't fight black people anymore to keep a respected image within an extremely racist age in american history.