The Dempsey Gambit

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  1. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Has anybody read this mad ******* book? The basic premise reads like Janitor wrote it. Dempsey is brought back to life by genetic engineering or some **** in the near future and gets matched, in chapter one no less, with world heavyweight champion "Kingsley" who drops him with a right hand, breaking his ribs. Dempsey watches himself unbelivingly on the giant screen broadcasting the action in the stadium and shakes his head, "all he'd wanted to do was win the world's heavyweight title and he'd done that more than one-hundred years ago."

    Then chapter two again, Dempsey riding the rails as a teenager.

    Wtf, lol and rofl. Anyone read this madness?
     
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  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    "He was a good three inches taller and a hundred pounds heavier than the boy. He als had a sizeable gut hanging out over his pant line and his face was round and fleshy."

    No not Jess Willard (boom boom!) but a challenger to a sixteen year old Dempsey's claim that he could "lick any man in the house!"

    (you got to love boxing lore)
     
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  3. johnmaff36

    johnmaff36 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    WTF!!!! Im having difficulty understanding this. Are you saying there a book out about Dempsey and hes kinda 'quantum leaping' to various times in the future at various stages in his life?
     
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  4. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    :lol: no. But that sounds even better.
     
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  5. Garrus

    Garrus Big Boss 1935-2014 Full Member

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    I gotta read this book.
     
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  6. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Just got beat up by John Lester in NY! That pesky John The Barber messing things up...
     
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    Garrus Big Boss 1935-2014 Full Member

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  8. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Wow,it is madness. But I just finished reading a new boxing book..
    It is called "Murder in A Pretzel Factory ".
    It is a story with a new TWIST !:patsch
     
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  9. McGrain

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    :lol:
     
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  10. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    No mention of Wills so far :D

    Langford's had a line or two though.
     
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  11. johnmaff36

    johnmaff36 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Any chance of a synopsis?

    Still cant figure it out
     
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    Hope this clears it up a little for ya, hasnt for me though still confused as hell :lol:
     
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  13. Boilermaker

    Boilermaker Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I cant wait to see the movie version.
     
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  14. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    He got in big trouble for naughty sparring. He ****ing elbowed a guy in the guy in sparring :lol: Naughty Jack!


    Basically, this promoter bankrolled this research into particle vibration in the past and works out how to clone JD. It's the guy who was about to fight Carpantier. Now, in 2029, Jack's all ****ed up about modern life and trying to get his hear around all this whilst at the same time trianing for fights. I also think he's getting warmed up to putting the blocks on this scientist woman :lol:
     
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  15. McGrain

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    First mention of the top black contender of the era...Harry Mills...Dempsey's surprised at the fuss people make about him not meeting his top contender, but admits to its being a "mark against him." He's trucking about America just now. It's kind of interesting actually. I was wandering if perhaps of all the great HW champs in these bygone eras if Dempsey isn't the one most out of place in a modern world. It's not hard to imagine Jack Johnson or Jim Corbett finding things a good deal more agreeable.

    He's reading A Flame Of Pure Fire!
     
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