Dempsey Wills breach of contract trial in 1931 won by Dempsey

Cue Klompton!

 

He won the suit by agreeing to honor the contract five years after he was no longer champion and had been retired for four years and Wills hadnt won a fight of note in six years. Pretty easy to be brave when you have literally nothing to lose particularly when the promoters would then be on the hook for $500,000 for a fight that no longer held any appeal beyond morbid curiousity. However, I would urge you to look up the 1932 appellate course decision that reversed this judge and ordered Dempsey to pay $100,000 in damages...

Anyone who believes Dempsey was ready and willing to defend against Wills is either ignorant and trying to hide the truth. Period. You cant research this time period in depth and come away with any other conclusion. Dempsey challenging Wills half a decade after the fact does ZERO to change that.

 

LOL, and there it is. You have everything settled until March of 1931 and yet the story doesnt end there. Convenient.

 

Fair to Dempsey? They had a contract which Dempsey NEVER intended on honoring. The entire thing was a sham cooked up by him and Floyd Fitzsimmons. If Dempsey refuses to honor a contract to defend his title against his number one contender and gets sued for it later but in order to try to kill the suit he then challenges Wills to a meaningless fight between two basically retired fighters who no longer are anywhere near championship calibre during the depression for a purse that nobody could afford to pay does that really alleviate Dempsey's liability or put the money back into the pockets of the investors in the original promotion? No.

You said yourself it was appealed and Dempsey was ordered to pay $100,000 in damages. Dempsey later admitted paying the $100,000. But hey, keep trying to rehab you heros image...

 

Its not my job to educate a guy with an agenda who doesnt want to hear the truth and wont change his mind anyway. You have the ability to search "dempsey" "appellate" and 1932 and see the judges ruling. Its literally as simple as that. The only reason to come on here and challenge me to produce such proof is because you dont want to hear it. So why would I waste my time. Everything to be said on this subject has been posted by me many many times on this forum and you are welcome to search those posts and Im sure you will find any response to any tripe you attempt to produce to defend a guy who ducked his number one challenger for the entirety of his reign while fighting, in order, a dying man, a man he had already knocked out, a light heavyweight who a decade earlier was losing to the best middleweights he fought conclusively, another light heavyweight who got his title shot by losing and eliminator match for it, a hyped up exotic oaf who was literally built up and promoted by Dempsey's promoter specifically as a foil for Dempsey, and another LHW who got his title shot because Dempsey was convinced he would be an easier fight than Wills...

 

Why is it up to me to post positive things about a guy whose reputation has been so manicured for decades? Does Dempsey need yet another apologist? And why is that on me? Go read Roger Kahn if you want to read somebody fawning over Dempsey and imagining him as a greek god. Jesus.

What does Greb have to do with this? If you think I didnt write anything "negative" about Greb then you didnt read my book. Tell me what I left out. Please. Its all there in black and white.

Again, you will believe what you want. Arguing that somehow an appellate decision against Dempsey for $100,000 is a win for Dempsey is the height of stupidity. Because you are too stupid to read the fact that the $100,000 judgement was only part of the damages and the REST of the damages were what was sent to retrial is not my problem.

Dempsey crying that the Fitzsimmons contract (which he helped orchestrate) cost him $100,000 is the height of hypocrisy when in reality it allowed him to move forward with his fight with Tunney which made him upwards of $750,000. Boo ****ing hoo.

Now, Ill get back to transferring and restoring Tunney-Dempsey II from the original film to HD. Awfully weird for a guy who supposedly hates Dempsey....

https://flic.kr/p/2pGaV9d

https://flic.kr/p/2pGaV9o

https://flic.kr/p/2pGbtwW

 

Well it does sound like youŕe not a Dempsey fan for sure.

 

I agree. Laughed out loud when Compton of all people wants to call someone out for having an agenda.

Pot calling kettle black.

 

Where is Mr. Pollack ?

 

Book will be out sometime this year and will thoroughly address all of these topics, the good, the bad, and the ugly.