What is the general consensus on Jack Dempsey in 1926-27?

good. very little really good factual reading on darcy i'm finding. have read the ballad of les darcy.
will it be the same type of style of book as the greb book was ?, i'll be buying it anyway....like i've said too many times, that greb book is one of the greatest things i own.
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Lets face it, Sharkey could have potentially lost to both of them in the same year.

Part of that would have been, because his fights against dangerous opponents, were far more in number, and close together..

 

Sharkey is a wildcard in any mythical matchup. When he was on he was really good and could seemingly do it all. When he wasnt he was mediocre.

 

dpw, thanks, yes I who was weaned in the 1940s,has loved boxing lo these many decades and have been fortunate to have seen the greatest fighters and fights ringside...I am NOT a writer but an ardent fight fan of the past...
As far as how would the Dempsey of 1919-23 have done against Gene Tunney were they to have met then ? Most everything I have read by
fight people of those Dempsey prime days, the majority believed that Dempsey's speed of attack would have overcome any defense Tunney
would put up, and Dempsey's quick savage offense would carry the day.
I too believe that the contemporaries of Dempsey and Tunney come closer
to the truth of their relative abilities, having seen them fight, than people 90 years later...Dempsey's main asset as a great fighter was his speed
which combined with great two handed power and take no prisoner
attitude, made him the idol of the masses. When Dempsey took three years off, and returned in 1926, tackling a top-notch boxer in Gene Tunney
without fighting for 3 years, without ONE tuneup bout, without his mentor
Jack Kearns, with whom Dempsey was suing in court, this rusty almost 32 year old edition without legs and reflexis was ready to be taken...So yes
I go along with the vast majority of boxing people of that era who believe
that the prime swifter Dempsey would have beaten Gene Tunney, and I am in good company...cheers...

 

I didn't think about it; we haven't had a good Dempsey blow up in a while. Once I saw dancer's legs it brought me back to a better time.