BOB HOPE KNOCKS JACK DEMPSEY COLD! Ace comedian makes sensational debut as boxer, to entertain at Madison Square re-union of US war-time pilots. New York, U.S.A.: Big Top View Crowd assembled at Madison Square Garden. LV Crowd. SV Bob Hope and Jack Dempsey receive instructions. STV Crowd applaud. SV Adolphe Menjou gives instructions - he starts taking Bob Hopes glove off etc. and pulls horse shoe out of glove. Side View General Eisenhower and wife looking. CU Eisenhower and wife looking on. SV Dempsey and Hope fighting it out - stool hanging from Hope etc. - Dempsey is knocked out for count of 14 etc. http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//RTV/1948/10/04/BGX411070158/ this was in 1948, but seeing as hope was a comedian, could it have been a joke, was Jack knocked out by this guy?!!
sounds hard to believe, a vet. hw knocked cold by a comedian, even in his old age jack was koing muggers, how did he lose this?
Hope wasn't a bad boxer...but dempsey had been fighting exhibitions in that time...I have to feel it was definitly a farce.
Horseshoe in Hopes glove!!!! Stool hanging from Hope!!! Gee, maybe it obviously was a routine - Plus Hope was 45 at the time!
Dempsey at 60 would have koed hope at 25...clearly a routine. You can also find footage of charlie chaplin ko'ing dempsey in his prime.
that picture ovbiously makes it look faked, still the article reported it as a genuine KO which is very strange as if its a joke, the audeince should have been in on it.
