Better resume - Dempsey or Wills

Dempsey has the better resume imo and I think he would have beaten Wills if they had fought.

 

If you take the "colored" group into account Wills had a very good resume and Dempsey fought the best available. Both men missed fighting each other

 

This is pretty accurate, it would of been nice had Dempsey fought one or two top black fighters of the day if he had I would clearly favor his resume, as it is, it's really debatable who had the better resume. I lean Dempsey because of the variety. Quite simply Wills had mastered most of the old black dynamite crew and his record is very padded by repeat fights with the same opponent. If the tables were reversed and Dempsey fought Carpentier 22x and had say 20 wins against him it wouldn't be as impressive of feat as defeating a variety of opponents over the same span of fights.

 

Impossible!

 

I know people say Greb but he fought Tunney who beat Greb pretty much at that time. He also did not fight Wills but I don't think it was his doing. He fought Sharkey and he was inactive.

Who do you think he missed that was deserving other than Wills ?

 

Bummy , Tunney started fighting Greb in 1922 and did not fight Dempsey till 26 .. Greb was after Dempsey from 1920 ..

 

Dempsey missed Wills and Greb and he was a very inactive champion. Missing Both fights dent his legacy a touch. Wills being black was greatly hampered by the legacy of Jack Johnson. Johnson broke the glass ceiling, but sometimes after that change occurs slowly in increments. It didn't help that Johnson proceeded to rub White America's face in it either. I feel Wills was avoided more because he was black rather than because he was good. If Wills accomplished everything he had, but was caucasian the fight would of took place.

 

Clearly it is Wills.

 

Then I guess Wills didn't either.........

 

When you think about it wills missed Willard, Dempsey, Greb, and even himself!

I mean what a bum!

 

Tunney didnt convincingly beat Greb until 1925. Prior to that, you know the previous six years of Dempsey's reign, Tunney was not considered a clear contender for Dempsey and in fact it took him beating Gibbons even later to move into that spot and he still never supplanted Wills for the top spot.