Jack Dempsey vs Tysons 86 to 91 opponents? How does he fare

OK I'll bite.
Dempsey stops berbick in 4
Stop's Smith in 11 , cut eye
Kos Thomas in 7
Points win over Tucker ,his tougher fight to date.

Ko s Holmes i n 4

Stops Biggs in the 7th
Ko s Tubbs in 3
Spinks out cold in one
Bruno puts up a good fight but is stopped in 6
Williams lasts in to the fourth before Jack cold cocks him .
Douglas puts on the fight of his life but loses a split decision.
Ruddock is stopped in 9after dropping Jack
Stewart is taken out in 1

 

Holmes would have been out a while ,so Dempsey gets him sooner or later. Yes its true regarding Ruddock and Bruno , but they weren't the most skilful of heavy s .But no doubts they could bang , I just think Jack s to fast with reflexes and punching power. Plus a solid Chin.

 

At least 3 beat him, maybe 4. He just never faced this level of athlete... and won.

 

You give Dempsey too much credit. I suspect he would avoid roughly all those fighters to face the dangerous Sammy Scaff then goes life and death with Steve Zouski. It would have been great memories.

 

After Tunney!

 

Whaaa? Spinks even blown up was smaller than some HWs that Dempsey fought, such as Firpo, & small compared to 6' 6" 1/2", near 250 but grown soft Willard, his famous original title fight. Holmes was certainly smaller than him too.

 

You forgot Evander Holyfield, he will beat him twice in under 10 rounds combined!

Blasphemy!

 

I think it is more the succession of well-trained, modern-sized heavies that would cause a probability game against an undersized guy like Dempsey who wasn't averse to taking risks. He can roll the dice but against these he wouldn't always be the first to land or the fastest, or even necessarily the hardest hitting. And I'm willing to bet guys like Bonecrusher and Ruddock and Bruno and even Douglas hit harder and more effectively in return than Firpo.

 

I think that he would have picked up a couple of early losses, due to his lack of amateur pedigree.

He would have gone through the same contenders, probably needing more rounds to put most of them away.

He might well have stopped Smith or Tucker however.

I don't think that he would have lost to Douglas in all honesty.

He might well have been ready to be taken, by the time Holyfield came along.