The value of Gene Tunney's wins over Jack Dempsey.

Yes, I might be forgetting something important but I think both of Tunney's two wins against Dempsey were probably better than any Tommy Burns or Jack Johnson championship fight win.

 

Another stick to beat Dempsey & Johnson with.
Same sh*t different day!

 

Dempsey was good enough to put away Jack Sharkey between his two fights with Tunney, and that was Sharkey at the time when he was actually being pretty consistent.

 

I think the fights with Tunney and Sharkey illustrate how good Dempsey must have been in his prime. Because his legs are completely devoid of the athleticism they once possessed. The lateral speed and the driving explosiveness are both gone. Yet he hung tough and defeated Sharkey and was within a controversial call of stopping Tunney in the rematch.
To answer the question Dempsey's chin, punch and combination punching even in that eroded 32 year old body is probably better defense than what Johnson and Burns contended with as champions.

 

Who were these mobile opponents that gave Dempsey fits?

 

I can't tell if you are being seious with your attempt to mitigate his inactivity. He fought a mix of unnamed opponents and sparring partners. This was nothing approaching actual bouts or even training. I don't think his vaudeville performances or movies served as tune ups either.

 

I see what the OP did there, nailing 2 targets in the same post.

 

Exactly he managed to squeeze Jack Johnson in there, [a boxer he is absolutely obsessed with disparaging,]despite there being no discernible connection between Johnson and the Tunney v Dempsey fights!
It's good that he compulsively continues in this way,because the only reputation he damages is his own!

 

Yeah,how many rounds did Gibbons,Carpentier,Levinsky,win against him?

 

Personally I don't place a particularly high premium on a fighters best single win.

For example James Douglas has a much better best single win than Larry Holmes, but nobody would think to compare them.

 

This is true, body of work takes precedence,but the fact that Tokyo Douglas put it all together for that night means that H2H that version could not be dismissed outright against Larry ,imo.