Even if we assume that the fight was on the level (by no means certain), Dempsey was only a local level fighter at the time, and this was his only stoppage loss in about seventy professional fights.
while i do believe that fight to be a dive by a starving dempsey, Dempsey was stopped earlier in his career, multiple times, though unrecorded. He's gone on numerous times to say he was brutally knocked out multiple times when he was out in the mid west fighting for scraps and didnt really know how to box
Aaron Pryor had a fetish for getting knocked down. Charles has the record for knockdowns but he had so many fights he can be forgiven.
Yes but that cuts both ways. If we factor in his unrecorded fights, then his record becomes something like 97-12-11
Punch resistance can really deteriorate with age. Roy was 35 and a veteran when he started looking shaky
Certainly not Lewis, Wlad's chin was unreliable but IMO falls short of being glass. Honestly, Wlad had defensive and stamina issues in his ko losses and it's not like Brewster, Purity, Peter, Sanders, and AJ are featherfisted either.