For me Ketchel is the hardest hitting middleweight of all time, he stopped lightheavyweight jack o brein, and floored heavyweight champion jack johnson. How does stanley do against dempsey who was not a huge heavyweight but a huge puncher! Also how do you guys on here rate ketchel?
Ketchel gets stopped in round 1 or 2 IMO. Too wild, too "there". Given that Dempsey would also be the stronger man I don't think he would have trouble finding the room.
Yeah, besides the 45 pound weight difference and half a foot difference in height thats a great comparison.
Ketchel has his head nearly taken off by Dempsey who is not going to stand back and clinch him for 12 rounds only to knock him out cold with the first seriously thrown punch as Jack Johnson did. Johnson looked like he could have finished the job in the second or third and we know he is no Dempsey as far as punching power and aggression goes.
