How would Jack Johnson do vs. Jack Dempsey's title opponents?

I take your point SB but all we really know for sure about Hart is that he was a durable aggressive fighter.

As for the comment by another that Firpo has a puncher's chance against Johnson,an old Johnson made Firpo look like a clumsy oaf in sparring.

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An earlier report on here by Cotto
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Jack Johnson vs Luis Angel Firpo ''The Sparring Session''
In Febuary of 1923 Jack Johnson was working in New York as a $250-a-day sparring parther for Luis Angel Firpo, a ****y young heavyweight from

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with fourtenn early round knockouts behind him, whom the broadway columnist Damon Runyon had already dubbed ''The Wild Bull Of The Pampas'' Firpo was preparing for a fight with ''KO'' Bill Brennan, who had almost taken Dempey's title two years earlier, and Tex Rickard was already thinking that big

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might be made someday from a Dempsey Firpo fight.

But when the fight crowd was invivted down to McLevys

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on 26 street to see the newcomer go through his paces with the ex champion Johnson, the temptation to show up his opponent proved more than Johnson could resist, just as it had when he'd worked Kid Carter twenty two years earlier. Firpo rushed at Johnson, only to find himself punching thin air or trapped within the grinning 44 year olds encircling arms as he bowed to the ringsiders-who broke into applause. As the bell rang ending the first round, he patted Firpo on the rear end. Firpo was furious.

So was Rickard, who saw to it that Johnson was fired and refused entry to the gym so long as the Argentinian hoepfull was training there.

Very impressive that Johnson could handle a young Firpo with ease. Especailly when Johnson was 44 years of age. Firpo would go on to give then champion Jack Dempsey all he could handle in 1923





Thanks for the welcome.I've been looking for greener pastures
, but keeping tabs on the quality posters like yourself.

 

Not really. I'm not suggesting Hart was a bum, but we know that Dempsey was much faster, much harder hitting and had a much more furious attack. We don't need footage. Every person who ever saw them both fight will tell you exactly what I am telling you. If you can find me a single dissenting voice I'll be surprised.

 

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Johnson beats all of them and most of them with the same ease he beat other challengers with.