Dempsey's greatness.

I don't cast aspirations on the opinions of Harry Wills and Tommy Gibbons, do you?

Thankfully, subsequent generations, with the advantage of context and cooler judgement make better estimations than "those that were there."

 

Garbage.

 

What the heck does "cast aspirations on the opinions of Harry Wills and Tommy Gibbons" mean ? Aspiration means expel breath in speech...S, you can do better than that...For your information Tommy Gibbons said a few days after his loss to Dempsey [who hadn't fought in 2 years]," lying in bed every bone in my body hurt "...It is not what one fighter remarks after a fight which he loses, it is what the VAST BODY of the boxing fraternity felt and opined on the greatness of the prime Jack Dempsey that counts...But nothing trumps your agenda, not even the high regard Dempsey was held in by thousands of his darn peers who saw him at his best, and called him
the greatest offensive heavyweight they had ever seen...Accept it....

 

This says it all really. Langford fought Wills many times and is arguably the greatest pfp fighter ever to live.....

Sam Langford, when asked how Harry Wills (whom he fought 18 times in his career) would do against Jack Dempsey, said in the June 5, 1922, Atlanta Constitution "Well if he ever fights Dempsey my money will be on the present champion. Dempsey is the greatest fighter I have ever seen. He hits twice as hard as Jim Jeffries and is as fast in the ring as James J. Corbett."

Now add to this the thoughts of Arcel, Tunney, Fleischer....all of whom saw Dempsey live from ringside and in the case of Tunney also spent 20 rounds fighting him in the ring.

 

Nonsense. Most of your "evidence against" is based on press reports of the day.

 

This is without doubt, the most ridiculous thing I have read on these forums.

 

This was an entertaining thread!!

 

For the record, you don't actually have to pick a side between Dempsey and Wills.

You can try to cast an understanding eye on both their situations.