If Dempsey is a modern LHW what other modern LHWs beat Willard?

Well he was the champion wasn't he?

 

He was technically awful and slower than a week in jail

 

Well if he is the champion then I don't see how it could be debated that he was world class.

 

Willard was weak technically and unskilled, but he wasn't unathletic - at least not his best version. The version Dempsey faced was bad though.

 

Lots of fighters would beat him. But knocking him down wasn't easy.

 

Yes, most people looked bad after Dempsey hit them cleanly.

 

He didn't look great before Dempsey hit him either.

 

That didn't take very long.

 

Willard, 37, went into the Dempsey fight under-trained and arrogant. Still, there didn't seem to be much fat on that 6'6" frame. And people forget. After sustaining an awful beating, Jess was punching back in that third round, lifting Jack's head up with uppercuts. Helluva lot a grit in him. The Mauler was on the verge of punching himself out.

I don't think Jess Willard's an easy night for anyone.

 

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