"You should be ashamed of yourself." I know. My mother used to tell me that. The nuns in my grade school used to tell me that.
"travel overseas was very primitive" You mean on an ocean liner? Once it docked in Europe there were trains, just like there were to Shelby....
"Johnson was living in France" "Burns was a unique globe trotter" Okay. "Both came prior to Dempsey's era." Which meant they had set a...
Actually, there were plenty of championship fights in Paris. Heavyweight championship fights were almost always in the US, but Carnera...
These men are big men compared to Roy Harris or Willi Besmanoff. You see someone like Harris handling Harrison. I don't. "most hyped big men...
It doesn't address my issue. Dempsey went west to fight Gibbons in Montana a state far from any major population center with a total population...
Perry, in all seriousness, if Dempsey wanted to make this fight happen somewhere, could he have? I mean by somewhere, somewhere outside the...
No offense, but this raises it's own questions. According to Time Magazine and every other source I am aware of, Dempsey and Wills signed to...
One thing at least to consider. The racial climate was awful, but Wills was not Johnson. Certainly there would have been plenty of racists...
On Dempsey being bugged by claims he was afraid of Wills, there was this exchange in Time Magazine, January 7, 1924 "Jack Dempsey--'All this talk...
I don't know, but this is the report of Time Magazine on October 19, 1925 "Jack Dempsey signed a contract to meet Harry Wills in a 10 round, no...
"most hyped in history" He was never in the Ring Magazine's top ten yearly ratings. He might have gotten a lot of hype, but it is not like...
Okay. I guess my mind is just working slow today. Your position is it is better to knock some out early than all late. Thanks for replying.
What about the two he didn't get out though? You are avoiding the issue. Is knocking out some guys early better than knocking out more...
Just on Dempsey implying he was poisoned before the first Tunney fight, I remember hearing him talk about that on the radio back sometime in the...
