[GIF] Dempsey batters Willard

Note Dempsey following thru with his elbow after the hook.

That right by Willard was a heavy blow plus the uppercut after.

Dempsey just looks like a world beater here. Fit to fight the world, determined, prime, KO power in both fists.

 

Willard

 

So all the reporters, from diverse and separate papers, who saw him in the days after the fight were conspiring in a lie.. And the truth only really came out years later?

And Willard never did make the drive from Toledo to Kansas a few days after this savage beating....

 

Willards cheek bone was broken. The side of his face was "caved in". Welts all over his body, eyes swollen closed, mouth pouring blood. "He cut my face to ribbons". Fleischer stated it was the worst beating he ever witnessed. Many at ringside screamed at the ref to stop the fight during rounds 2 and 3. Those are the facts.

 

He must have had superhuman recuperative powers then.

More people were mentioned screaming "Coward" and "Quitter" than for anyone to stop it. In fact a lot of the former was mentioned in next day reports but really nothing of the latter.

But, oh, those pesky facts always get in the way.

 

Revisionist. In any fight many different attitudes are expressed during its various stages. The question is which were predominant. Fleischer was very clear in every account of this fight he wrote (that I am aware of) that many at ringside were screaming for the ref to stop the fight during rounds two and three. Why was that? Willards face was cut to ribbons, his mouth poured blood, his eyes were cut and closed, he had a large hematoma that covered one side of his face and his body was covered with welts. Years later what did Willard himself state? Fleischer called this bout the worst beating he had ever seen in the ring. He watched the bout live from ringside.

 

If Willard sustained little damage ,I wonder why the furore about loaded gloves and railroad spikes gained any credence?

 

Wonder where they got their facts from if its not true?
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I guess if I were there into the third I'd get a little disgusted

 

Funny that... according to the reporter from the Fort Worth Telegraph who met him on the 10th in Chicago (on his way back to Kansas), he had all his teeth, had some discoloration under his eye. Reporters who saw him on the 7th said the swelling was gone and there were only cuts on lips and discoloration, again, round his eye.

No one is saying Jess didn't get the crap kicked out of him, just that the list of injuries is overblown. Nobody suffering from all those injuries is driving 5 days on 1919 roads in a 1919 Jalopy, giving interviews and going on business trips to Texas oilfields.