Is Dempsey/Willard the Most Overrated Victory Ever?

Janitor 'Does anyone else have a victory as good as Dempsey, I mean who else beat someone while being outweighed by 60lbs, when in a lineal title fight, at exactly 2:35second of the thirdly round, while eating a cheese and pickle (with no onion) 2hours beforehand'

Me: 'Well um someone did do something similar but didn't eat the cheese and....'

Janitor: 'SEEEEEEEEE, It's not the same, no one else did exactly the same exact thing that Dempsey did so look that means it's a great great win'

 

Spinks did absolutely nothing against Tyson - nothing - he was terrified and went to a knee the first time Tyson gave him the hint - as much as Tyson looked a force of nature I find it difficult to gauge anything from a fight where it looked like the opponent didn't belong in there with him in that frame of mind - whereas Fulton was at the time probably the front runner for a challenge of Jess Willard, was 5 inches taller with an 84 and a half inch reach and had ko'd Frank Moran, Gunboat Smith, Bob Devers and Sam Langford and Tom Cowler so he was a top contender of the era and a threat and mentally I assume probably came in feeling like a favourite as opposed to Spinks who was like a rabbit caught in the headlights

 

to put in context Dempseys win over willard and why i think its not overrated perhaps condider joe louis kayo of Braddock.
jimmy braddock too was coming off a long layoff - two years and he wasnt a great champion by any means either. He gave Louis a stiff fight for a couple of rounds and had him on the floor in the 1st and lasted until the 8th round. and that wasnt an awful performance from the brown bomber. braddock like willard was a proud champion both tried hard to defend the title.

i think Dempsey was clearly more impressive in winning the title than joe Louis for one example. against similar opposition. and theres no denying that Louis was a phenomonal champ.

like said before the number of comparable heavyweight title winning perfromances as dempsey-willard we can probably count on 1 hand.

 

regardless of all that it was an entertaining brawl. and nothing you can say will change that. and in spite of all the inconsistent officiating most are satified that the better fighter won.
im sure the paying fans and all boxing fans since then (except maybe you being the one exception) were grateful that tex Rickard had hoodwinked them into buying it.

 

Willard was not the same guy as he was in Cuba, granted, but he was still a tough guy who had preparred for a tough fight.

The extent to which he has been made to be inactive and helpless often goes overboard.

It's often a common quip that Willard was well overweight. Lest we forget Willard was a bigger man than Lennox Lewis! 245 to 230 is very little. Inactiveness was the main problem.

Even still, this was not an easy man to get rid of! That's the whole point. I don't think any other fighter could have got rid of Willard as Dempsey did that day. Hell, Jess was beginning to hit back in the third and Dempsey started to freak out a bit.

Everything considered, it was an awesome victory.

 

Is Conn Unforgiven? Taking a wild shot here...