Article: WILLS LOSES HOPE TO MEET DEMPSEY

I think Dempsey could have forced the fight if he wanted. I don't think he'd have ducked the fight had it been made.

I'm not sure how passionate he was about keeping the colour line intact but I don't believe any professional boxer is actually scared of another.

I think Dempsey beats Wills, I've never seen Greb fight so can't comment on that one.

Ultimately though Wills was a deserving challenger and Dempsey faced less deserving challengers in his place. That is a duck.

 

Willis wanted to fight Dempsey.

 

One was black, the other too good?

 

Perhaps, you know the old saying "where there is a Willis there is a way".

 

Two years ago when Dave Shade challenged Mickey Walker for the welterweight championship, Leo Flynn, his manager, was asked why he didn't push his claim. “When the time comes,” be answered. “we’ss attend to that. We’ll get Walker some day but in the meantime we are making much more money and having much less annoyance than Walker.

Sounds kinda like ODH talking about Canelo 100 years later.

 

A little bit more honest than Oscar Dela hosiery

 

Dont forget that Dempsey did fight and KO the man who actually beat Wills - Jack Sharkey.

Although going by boxrec, he also seems to have ducked the man who demolished Wills - Uzcuden

:huh

 

Dempsey did not duck Wills and this is known boxing history for 90 years.

 

On another note if you go on historicfilms.com there is an excellent first generation copy of Dempsey Tunney 2. Or at least highlights thereof.