[1921 article] Levinsky claimed Carpentier hit harder than Dempsey

Could either Carpentier or Dempsey compete with this man? A man who did 30 minute rounds on the heavy bag, who broke commercial treadmills with his speed and intensity?
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"I remember when I had my own boxing gym in the garage in my late teens early 20's. My heavy bag was 125 pounds and I would hit it non stop in 30 minute increments alternating between bobbing and weaving under and around the bag and coming up with punches and moving side to side jabbing and throwing combos in full Ali mode. Then skipping rope 10,000 times until I was standing in a puddle of sweat and finishing the workout with a 5 mile run. 3-4 times a week I would visit a gym to lift mostly shoulder, back and leg work. Funny thing is that I would finish off each workout running full bore on their commercial treadmills. It was quite a sight with the machine screeching at its highest speed and me running at top speed. I would sometimes gather a small crowd. Several times the treadmills broke down under the stress!"

 

Following a slower-than-expected opening round Dempsey tore at Levinsky in typical fashion, forcing the smaller man to clinch or retreat to the ropes. Right hands to the body moved Levinsky about the ring and Dempsey stabbed with his jab more than expected. It wasn’t much of a contest.

“In the first two rounds Dempsey followed his opponent all over the ring to try and connect with one of his sleep producers,” said the Philadelphia Inquirer. “Levinsky, however, used the ring at every opportunity, but even at that he had to take a lacing, for every time that Dempsey landed with one of his short rights or lefts they seemed to shake Levinsky from stem to stern.”

A left hand to the body had Levinsky taking a nine count before rising late in round two and he never fully recovered. Nevertheless Levinsky attacked in round 3, but it only led him to trouble. Dempsey froze Levinsky with body shots and all the smaller man could do was hold on. After the referee separated the two, Dempsey sailed home a right hand that put Levinsky out for the count, and then some.

The Boston Herald reported, “It was useless for the referee to count the necessary 10 seconds for Levinsky was dead to the world.”

Dempsey knocked Levinsky out cold.

 

December 2nd 1921 New York Daily News. Levinsky was asked who hit him hardest: “Jack hit me harder than Georges”.

 

I've just spat out my morning coffee!LOL Did he have a theme tune, Night Train? Sweet Georgia Brown? Rocky's Eye Of The Tiger perhaps?OMG

 

Congratulations!!!! A primary source!!!!!
There's a first time for everything.

 

I never got the Carpentier mystique at heavyweight. You summed it up factually. Post here more often.

Carpentier had a fine round one vs. Dempsey, then hurt thumb and wrist and faded, but he sure landed easy enough. IMO he had Dempsey stung early.

His best filmed fight is vs Siki. Carpentier was a smaller but skilled heavyweights with suspect durability for the division and not a big enough punch to keep his best opponents off him. Not his fault, he started boxing at flyweight!

 

Learn the sport! You have been historically wrong every single time. It’s your European local that is the issue. Too far removed from the “scene”.

 

Carpentier had 112 fights,only 7 of then were in the US.LOL

 

So even more for you to be concerned about!

 

"I remember when I had my own boxing gym in the garage in my late teens early 20's. My heavy bag was 125 pounds and I would hit it non stop in 30 minute increments alternating between bobbing and weaving under and around the bag and coming up with punches and moving side to side jabbing and throwing combos in full Ali mode. Then skipping rope 10,000 times until I was standing in a puddle of sweat and finishing the workout with a 5 mile run. 3-4 times a week I would visit a gym to lift mostly shoulder, back and leg work. Funny thing is that I would finish off each workout running full bore on their commercial treadmills. It was quite a sight with the machine screeching at its highest speed and me running at top speed. I would sometimes gather a small crowd. Several times the treadmills broke down under the stress!"

This is actually priceless!

 

You have to consider it this way, I knew a HW fighter that fought butterbean and had a few other pro fights, I knew him personally and saw him in many street fights, once i was walking home and saw him pass by a construction site, 3 big guys recognized him from being in the local Tough man competitions at that time, they yelled at him called him names and went up to him and started a fight, he hit all 3 of them 1 punch on 2 of them and 2 punches for the 3rd, even though a 6-1 200 lb HW, he was smaller than all 3 of them, I would bet all 3 would say he hit harder than anyone that's ever hit them, then I saw many of his tough man fights, usually he Koed them, but 2 guys he fought he hit them with everything and they acted as if the punches were nothing, and he never even fazed butterbean, yet he could knock out anyone on the street and most in the tough man, but i would bet those 3 guys including butter, would say he may not hit that hard, who knows, it all depends on who is taking the punches, some guys may not feel it as much as another.

 

No body could.He is a GOD! Modest too!