"incredible durability" I don't think there is evidence Floyd Johnson was much of a puncher. Firpo knocked Willard out. I just don't think...
"Dempsey's comeback after losing the title was incredible" I don't know if I would go so far as saying it was "incredible" but it was...
"public opinion that he should be fighting Wills" Some public opinion. w/o scientific polls, who knows what the public as a whole thought. As...
"tuneup" seems a bit extreme regarding Tunney I think it reasonable that Tunney might have been/or is slightly overrated with many judging...
I don't know if I should step into this one, but while I can understand Jeff wanting to clear up the Ruhlin draw Fitz should have gotten his...
"Ray Robinson's true greatness" Many, including myself, think Robinson's credentials are much stronger than Dempsey's. If we had no film at...
Burt I think John Dempsey shot his wife and himself in July of 1927, before the Sharkey fight, not the first Tunney fight.
I don't what all the posts say, but the autopsy said this from Nick Tosches The Devil and Sonny Liston (the only source I can find which quoted...
Burt Would you say that an eyewitness account of a murder would be better than a film of the murder? "No man can control when he was born"...
"I MAY BE RIGHT" Of course. "it is not a mathematical question" Winning or losing is not what I would call math or stats. I see it as basic...
Burt--I don't think I trashed Dempsey. I defended Marciano. The comment that Firpo was closer to Mac Foster than to Foreman was because I saw...
On whether a poll from 1962 (and who knows if it represents a decent cross-section) should govern, it is hard to tell who saw whom fight and...
"Carpentier was considered one of the greatest fighters in the world when Dempsey fought him." Didn't Rickard close his sparring sessions so...
Houdini "Marciano is rated highly today almost completely because of his undefeated record" That is a good reason. I think the object of a...
Houdini "All Dempsey's films show his greatness" "Silent movie people did not move that way" They move the same as they do now if...
