Could Dempsey Hurt The Super Heavies? Look At This.

We could start with his brutal and quick destructions of the #1 contender and the lineal champion!

 

No one is denying that Dempsey had power.

How his skills and ability would translate to the better, more refined, more athletic heavies of today is a different question. Quite frankly, much of Dempsey's filmed work greatly disappoints me. He is rash, wide open and off balance. He looks distinctly vulnerable to a good sized professional heavyweight who can counter and control distance.

Granted a great deal of his destruction of the ranks occurred off film or film did not survive.

 

No - just a lucky horse-shoe in his glove m8. :thumbsup


Dempsey was a proper pikey. :bbb

 

Plaster of paris

 

There you have it. Anyone who can hit has a puncher's chance, and Dempsey certainly could hit. Dempsey also had excellent hand speed, and in his prime good movement skills. The stiff and slow fell victim to his whirlwind attack, however comparing some obscure big guy to a skilled modern day super heavyweight is like comparing a Lincoln Town car to a Mayback.

 

This, I knew a 6'4 bodybuilding bouncer who got into an altercation with a 160lb amateur boxer who wasn't much cop who shattered said bouncers jaw. Does this mean a sub par middleweight is beating Wlad too

Is Dempsey going to soak up the punches that Brewster did? Doubtful, hardly the best version of Wlad either

 

It is, if only because you have to punch up.

 

That guy was quite skinny for 7'2. He weighed the same as Vitali despite a 7" height advantage and was 50 lbs lighter than SNV, the same height as him

Not that it means too much. We know from his height and weight he wasn't carrying a spare tyre, but his height and weight obviously weren't in proportion

 

No offence, but the point wasn't important enough to have been made in the first place. Tyson Fury could knock out Pacquiao. So what?

 

Is the question if Dempsey had the power to hurt super heavyweights ? If so, of course.