Brutal Dempsey sparring Knockout in slow motion

Yeah, that poor welterweight.

 

Dempsey was known to take sparring very seriously, even against writers and other non-combatants.
Roger Kahn (he wrote "A Flame Of Pure Fire," a Dempsey biography) tells a story of talking boxing with Dempsey in 1960. They were in Dempsey's restaurant and talking about Patterson/Johannsson when Dempsey suggested they take their jackets off, get up and move around a bit. He said dempsey suddenly got very cold-eyed, fired a jab that creased his jaw, hit him in the body with a right and whipped a hook by his chin. Then bought him a drink and told him that, in the ring, you always keep your guard up.

 

I love the side by side with Tunney!...good **** Theron!

 

You are such a hatter dude!..

 

I agree!...atsch

 

Dempsey's power is laughably overrated. Dempsey wore, what, 5 ounce gloves for most of his fights? That's little more than a piece of tape and leather around your fist. These old time nutbags on here keep comparing him to guys who wore much larger gloves as if it didn't matter.

 

I've seen Tunney with Corbett but not Dempsey with him.

I love Jack Dempsey. He was and always shall remain my first love in boxing. That's a small middleweight he's bouncing around the ring there. I forget dude's name but someone on here identified him years ago.

 

Why go overkill on a middleweight, seems real ****ing stupid.

 

Sir, I am one of your oldtime"nutbags " as you describe people like myself who know aeons more than you and should be shown some respect as YOU TOO will get older...You sir, know zilch about boxing, but spout insults to a group of posters who have done you no harm...So brave of you to insult a group of people from afar...So BRAVE !