It is for the person who uses a quote as evidence to provide its provenance. I don't consider this quote worthwhile evidence. "Dig for the...
Dempsey1234 No one has ever posted as anti-Dempsey a bit as the one you just did. He starts by saying he is rooting for Fulton, and makes it...
Here is the AP description of the third round of the Wills-Fulton fight. "Wills rushed his opponent in the third round and landed rights to the...
"Dempsey threads" But this is supposed to be a Wills-Gibbons thread, isn't it? Sorry if I sounded snarky about Mencken--I didn't mean to--but I...
Dempsey1234 I replied to your posts on the Gibbons thread. I don't have the time now, but I hope to come back and reply to you on this thread...
"who did Wills beat during that made him #1 for 7 years as you claim" I don't remember every claiming it. There were no ratings for most of this...
Oh, it is controversial to me. "Arcel was reputable" So was Lincoln. But did Arcel actually say exactly what he is quoted as saying? It...
Very interesting. I was not surprised by these quotes, as they reflected what I saw in the 1924 fight with Madden. "Wills, because of...
"it's written by Mencken who saw just about everybody in his time" What a disappointment. I was excited by H. L. Mencken having snidely...
"That quote comes from a guy who actually seen both Dempsey and Wills." No. The quote actually comes from Roger Kahn, and he does not give a...
"another dirty ending" To another of your Wills posts?
"who cares about a sparring match" I hope this means we won't hear any more about Dempsey sparring Tate or about Dempsey breaking sparring...
Dempsey1234 "What you seem to want is impossible to provide" No. It is just providing the provenance of a quote. It is basic historical...
Corbett is being annoying? It looks to me as if he two guys like each other. Considering that Corbett was an old champion, I imagine Dempsey was...
Dempsey1234 (just an aside--your posts are always a bit tough to understand as you mix up the quotes from the guy you are answering with your own...
