Jack Demspey "sent Godoy reeling" in sparring, 1940

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  1. Pachilles

    Pachilles Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I was liking it up until this noise...
     
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  2. McGrain

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    Yeah, obviously that is sickening bull**** nonsense, but the rest was good.
     
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    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    bump
     
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    he grant Historian/Film Maker

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    I originally responded to his childish post but decided he has become someone to ignore completely ...
     
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  5. Wisdom

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    Frazier was a class above Dempsey as a fighter
     
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    :patsch:huh:-(
     
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  7. LittleRed

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    Honestly I think Dempsey and Frazier are pretty close. I have to ask, was Dempsey really considered the best heavyweight of all time. I thought that just about everyone from that era, like Fleischer, had Jack Johnson ahead of him.

    I think the 70's Duran is pretty close temperament wise.
     
    LittleRed, Jun 24, 2012
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  8. Nightcrawler

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    joe's resume, though shorter, certainly lines up well with dempsey's. and his top wins (especially the FOTC) are well ahead of dempsey's. i wouldn't say they're on different levels but frazier is clearly ahead of dempsey all time imo
     
    Nightcrawler, Jun 24, 2012
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  9. smitty78

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    I didn't make it up people were talking about it in the lounge. Stop messaging me asking why I exposed you in front of all these guys.
     
    smitty78, Jun 24, 2012
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  11. Nightcrawler

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    well we ain't in the lounge
     
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  12. Toad

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    dempsey was good. its a pity because a lot of people underrate the guy. his destruction of willard was awesome.
     
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    Nightcrawler, Jun 24, 2012
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  14. smitty78

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    That's the only link I could find. There's a few others out there.
     
    smitty78, Jun 24, 2012
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  15. burt bienstock

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    LR, you are correct...Nat Fleischer always had Jack Johnson no.1 as a heavyweight...But in the 1950s polls 200 or so boxing writers had Jack Dempsey as the best heavyweight by a large majority with Joe Louis at no.2...
    I have always felt that the young hungry Jack Dempsey's snarling temperment was a bigger and earlier edition of the later vicious Roberto Duran...They both fought like some opponent took their wallet...Two peas in the pod...
     
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