Could Jack Dempsey beat Frank Bruno?

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OK, fair enough.

 

I believe I see a favorable bias of yours toward modern-day heavyweight fighters in general, as you seem awed by their superior size and polished technique. I agree, of course, as our more recent boxers have been able to build on the legacy of the past, plus were simply better nourished from conception. I agree that Bonecrusher Smith beats Tommy Gibbons.

This makes guys like Jack Dempsey all the more amazing to me, as they still compare favorably to titans of a century later.

 

I don't think the ethnicity of foes is that important of an issue. Marciano was caucasian and was able to dispose of highly-rated black opponnents. There are many other examples such as Wladimir Klitschko, Jerry Quarry, Max Schmelling, etc. Some of Dempsey's opponnents such as Gibbons and Miske were among the best fighters of that era.

 

Tell Sullivan, Jeffries, Langford, Wills, Dempsey and Johnson that then.

 

Bruno did get the undivided atention and then some of Tyson and Lewis there is no denying it.

Perhaps what seperates Dempsey from Bruno is that everything might go wrong for Dempsey that could go wrong, and Bruno might fight the perfect fight, but Dempsey would still find a way to win.

Dempsey was the all time master of coming back from the brink. On at least two ocasions he won a fight and thought he had been knocked out afterwards.

 

Only relatively speaking did Tyson "have his hands full" with Bruno, of course. In that heyday of Tyson's reign of terror, just the fact that Bruno survived a few rounds, rocked him a couple of times, delivered a few body shots and avoided a blow out was considered quite an accomplishment.

Until Tyson's final barrage, there had been a tooth-and-nail Round 1 and then a growing aura of uncertainty with each passing round. It was Tyson's first fight without Rooney, Bruno seemed to be metamorphosing back and forth from scared to brave fighter, and those Brit chants were spine-tingling.

I just meant anytime you still have a powerful opponent such as Bruno in there with you after a few rounds, it becomes touch and go until you close the show.

 

Agreed,

Bruno showed game efforts against not one but a few very good fighters. In 40 pro fights, he Ko'd 38 opponents, and gave his conquerors a fair amount of trouble. At times, I wasn't even sure if Lennox Lewis was even going to beat him, and this was a past prime version of Bruno. Frank's limiting factor, was his confidence, but when he showed up to fight, he was about as dangerous as any contender that I can think of. I believe he was acually ahead on the cards in the Witherspoon, Smith and Lewis fights prior to being stopped. All of these men were in their perspective primes when these fights occured. I'll concede that Dempsey should definately be favored to clean house on Bruno, but to think that he would certainly have a fight on his hands, is not out of the question as I've already stated before.