If Jack Dempsey had the tenacity of a David Tua, could he have been a bonafide top 3 ATG?

Jack Dempsey of Salt Lake lasted about twenty-five seconds in his match with Jim Flynn of Pueblo last night at Murray. During those twenty-five seconds Flynn punched Dempsey twice on the right side of the head, twice on the left side, broke down Jack's guard with his right and put the finishing touches on with a steaming wallop with his left to the jaw. Dempsey was out half a minute. When he began to regain consciousness in his corner he evidently thought he was still in a pugilistic encounter, for he put up a strenuous battle with those who were trying to bring him around. Although Dempsey well knew that it is Flynn's way to start from the instant the gong sounds, hurling himself into the fray with all the speed and strength of which he is possessed Jack apparently made no preparation to meet that first onslaught. He looked like a man dazed by the swiftness with which things moved, and he was as helpless before those two rushes of Flynn as though he were but a child.

(Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Feb 1917)

 

23 is way to low and warrants deeper consideration IMO

 

This is an absolute highlight of the forum

Someone get Rez to make a boxingforum montage

 

Inb4 Vesti gets Seamus'd

 

I'm glad to see that Nonpareil Nonpareil Dempsey hasn't been forgotten.

 

If I got banned for that, I'd search and report every other person I could find that referenced that joke. I am that crazy.

 

Fireman Jim Flynn was a crude, sloppy, dirry, lousy boxer. There is enough video of him out there to prove that opinion. The Johnson II fight is on video and his constant headbutting was abominable . His one win over Langford was considered a disgraceful decision, and he got ko'd by Langford when Langford was around 75 years old. Tiger Flowers retired with an injured hand, a tainted win.

Calling him a "great " fight insults the word "great".

News reports of the Demspey ko noted that he sucker punched Jack. Dempsey obliterated him in 1 round a year later.