Negro Superman Tate would have whipped Dempsey - sparring doesn't mean jack ****!
"Instead of the clean Bonds, he saw big black smiling Joe Jeanette, his fists encased in 6-ounce gloves and in fighting togs. Jack appeared not...
Well that's a flaming lie. Why don't you reprint the entire newspaper article?
Oh, obviously. Dempsey was so a-scared of the mighty negro supermen that he'd only beat on them in the privacy of training camp.
All I have to go on is your specific claim: "After suffering broken ribs in this Draw, Dempsey never got in the ring with a black man again."...
Round 2 - Tyson realizes he's in for a beating and attacks the referee to earn a disqualification.
Perhaps Dempsey is part black? I'll take a 1905 Jim Jeffries over Denver Ed or any of the other fighters bearing that magic negro superman gene...
You aren't promoting the discredited and highly racist "negro superman" theory, are you?
I thought the "pride of Australia" was that some of its citizenry are of British extraction. Tough break for the rest of the wogs there, but...
Another poorly-known fact was that Sam McVey, a Dempsey sparring partner for the 1920 defense against Billy Miske, was actually Irish. Obviously...
It's true. Bill Tate and George Godfrey were actually Italian, a fact you'll rarely hear today's PC-obsessed boxing apologists mention.
Steroids, steroids, steroids. Seems unfair to rank him amongst the all-time great non-cheats, doesn't it?
That's a fairly remarkable bit of action from the surviving footage. The bit of recent restoration work to stabilize the image brings home the...
If by "panic attacks" you mean "withdrawl symptoms"....
Gerry Cooney is a sad case. Big, powerful fighter with a long, stiff jab and murderous left hook, thrown to the Big Bad Wolf a little too early...
