Back in the 1920s, my great grandpa Charles Conway emigrated from Ireland to NYC and became a a friend of Jack Dempsey. Dempsey gave my great grandpa a photo signed “to my pal Charlie Conway, best of luck, Jack Dempsey!” Now it’s at my uncle Charlie’s house
I named my Pit bull after Dempsey in the 80s.Luckily my dog was a softee nothing like Jack.What a time to be the most famous sportsman in the world, the roaring 20s!
Better lock the original copy in a vault and make several copies for family members and frame it over the mantle and keep one in the office. It's like a baseball signed by Babe Ruth. Dempsey was the greatest boxer of that era.
This is one of the best if not they best boxers idol, the good ol Mike Tyson who has said in many occasions that Sonny Liston and Jack Dempsey are who he looks up too
I'm a brother from Massachusetts like Marciano is. I like Rocky but neither Rocky or Tyson fought the level of people Ali fought: Liston twice, Norton and Frazier 3 times each, Foreman, Shavers, Jimmy Young (who beat George Foreman), Ron Lyle, Floyd Patterson I think Rocky beat tougher opponents than Tyson: Archie Moore (41 years old), Jersey Joe Walcott (38 years old), Joe Louis (37 years old), Edward Charles was only 33 What were Tyson's greatest victories ???......I would guess and say Tony Tucker but Tucker broke his hand and still gave Tyson a good fight. If Tyson had beaten a prime Holyfield (before prison), Lennox Lewis, the George Foreman who gave Holyfield a good fight and if he had beaten Riddick Bowe then I would say he had more impressive wins than Rocky and almost as good as Ali but Tyson lost to Holyfield and Lewis both of whom are younger than Tyson.......And if Tyson had also beaten Klitschko that really would have been something.......In all fairness to Tyson, Ali was only 32 when he beat Foreman.
The black Greats??? Whats your point??? He never fought Joe Louis yet lived during the same years. He never fought Jack Johnson yet Dempsey knocked out the man who took Jack Johnson out of Boxing...
He wouldn’t fight Harry Greb who was a middleweight. Jack sparred with Greb and after 3 Ed’s. Dempsey got out of the ring and told Jack Kearns not to schedule at fight with the Pittsburg windmill
Yep. Very True. There was a bunch of dumb politics in boxing then. No mandatory #1 challenger. Wills was clearly the #1 challenger when instead Willard got the title shot. It should of been Dempsey trying to unseat the Champion Wills in my option.
@@majik_man Willard was chosen by the boxing "commissions" to bring the title back for the white race after Johnson agreed to lay down...but he couldn't fight a lick.. and I agree lots of fighters should've been given shots at Johnson including Langford but Jack drew the color line
@@Bruins-vq5ey There's no way Jack Johnson faked a knockout. It's been vetted countlessly & Endlessly in forums. Folktales often aren't reality. Any examination of the fight disproves this by Jack Johnson throwing everything he had the previous round before he got knocked out. He asked his wife to leave so she wouldn't see him get knocked out. Johnson is just messing with people by claiming such ridiculous thing's (he wasn't the first to be doing this stuff much like corbett).
@@Bruins-vq5ey Classic case of sensualizing a fighter. Johnson often had trouble with punches lacking steam. He couldn't knockout Sandy Ferguson in 1904 Costing him a chance at the title at the time. Sandy was afar worse fighter than Willard. His punches weren't hurting Willard. Go look for yourself its on film. He threw everything he had at willard the previous round was totally spent. Then claimed "shading his eyes" was some kind of proof he faked a knockout. Was poor sportsmanship and even then in 1915 the press thought it was ridiculous. Willard had his day just like Buster Douglass. You should read how bad the press was making fun of him for saying he choose to lay down the next few days afterwards. It was merciless. Johnson was a far better champion than Willard but he beat him fair & square.
Well I just learned about another dude name Sam Langford a middleweight who chased all the heavy weights and a lot of them did not want to fight this little man, its said that Sam Langford once went 60+ rounds and that was normal.
Langford didn't box 60 rounds in a fight. The standard long version of a fight was 25 rounds usually. Fights weren't scheduled for 60 rounds that would be a finish fight which kinda ended with the bareknuckle days.
Too bad Tunney didn't get the deserved respect and credit he deserves for being a great boxer, the dance at the end for the two champions was a perfect ending to a little mock boxing round!🥊🌟🏆👍
How did Charlie Chaplin knock him out?? His whole career he was only KO'd once against Fireman Flynn, but even in that case his brother threw in the towel during a KD.
rumor has it Dempsey had metal bars and knuckle dusters in his gloves when fought Willard . if you watch the fight watch Dempsey hands and how he is swinging his arms and hands,, he is not punching he is swinging looping blows, and the damage to Willard is hard to put down to punches. Dempsey was not punching. he was using his arms as clubs to bludgeon Willard. , he drops his hands often because of the weight inside his gloves. ..
@@majik_man yeah it would have been detected I worked with a man in his eighties who owned a restaurant in new York next to Jack Dempsey restaurant they used to play cards together he told me a story about how one day they were playing cards and dempsey was about sixty at the time and this big kid who was about 6 foot 6 230 or more walked up to Dempsey after having too much to drink at twenty four he was a pro boxer and he challenged Dempsey jack told him to back off he was drunk the kid wouldn't shut up so they took it outside the kid threw a right hand that Dempsey easily slipped and knocked him out cold with one punch a straight right Dempsey was real
The Biggest single reason Willard looked so dreadful can easily be traced back to one thing in my mind mind. He wasn't warmed up at all. He had no sweat on him at all, he entered the ring totally cold. He should of been jumping rope or doing something. His footwork was dreadfully slow due to being so cold. He probably figured he would get "warmed up" in no time due to past fight experience but that wasn't the case here. It made him appear far worse than he was because none of his reflexes were even warmed up yet. That's my theory (it happened) to many boxers far after him too. You can't go in so cold. Willard wasn't much of a Journeyman boxer he was a farmer and he made a very critical error due to his inexperience. In my option anyway.
@rebelliousredneckvlogs Then why was Dempsey and Liston beating everyone else. Ali was definitely past his prime when he beat Frazier, Foreman, Shavers, Young, and Norton......and others.
It's pretty funny to think that they keep calling him a black panther, when they wouldn't let black people fight... Jack Dempsey you wouldn't have been anything if he would have had to fight black people, not to mention he ducked and dodged a challenge... By today's rules, he would have been stripped and laughed out of the sport
@@guywilliams6569 umm.... he did have to fight black people, i dont think he had a choice hahahaha, not only that he had to win by knockout otherwise it was called a no decision. "not to mention he ducked and dodged a challenge..." HAHAHAHAHAHA "ducked and dogded" you have no idea who youre talking about, did you forget he fought 10-1 odds against jesse willard the largest man in boxing history at the time... it was only once he became champion he announced he wouldn't fight black people anymore to keep a respected image within an extremely racist age in american history.
Back in the 1920s, my great grandpa Charles Conway emigrated from Ireland to NYC and became a a friend of Jack Dempsey. Dempsey gave my great grandpa a photo signed “to my pal Charlie Conway, best of luck, Jack Dempsey!” Now it’s at my uncle Charlie’s house
My Great great great uncle who is Jack dempsey
I named my Pit bull after Dempsey in the 80s.Luckily my dog was a softee nothing like Jack.What a time to be the most famous sportsman in the world, the roaring 20s!
Monsters. Real killers during that era
Better lock the original copy in a vault and make several copies for family members and frame it over the mantle and keep one in the office. It's like a baseball signed by Babe Ruth. Dempsey was the greatest boxer of that era.
That's worth a lot of money
the conditioning these guys went through to go 30 rounds plus boggles the mind to fight in 100+ degree heat.
It's because beastiality was much more common and animal DNA was to be found in a lot of fighters.
@@johnrife7134
Lol
This is one of the best if not they best boxers idol, the good ol Mike Tyson who has said in many occasions that Sonny Liston and Jack Dempsey are who he looks up too
I miss Bert Sugar, he was great at what he did !
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Big time ..👍🍺🥊..End of a era...😇🙏😢🥊
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Tunny was a good boxer he was a boxing instructor for the Marines he became u.s. expeditionary champion
Wow the good old days.
Wow
Rocky Marciano fought all the black greats and never lost.
Or just all the greats
I would've loved to have seen Rocky Marciano and Sam Langford fight each other.
I'm a brother from Massachusetts like Marciano is. I like Rocky but neither Rocky or Tyson fought the level of people Ali fought: Liston twice, Norton and Frazier 3 times each, Foreman, Shavers, Jimmy Young (who beat George Foreman), Ron Lyle, Floyd Patterson
I think Rocky beat tougher opponents than Tyson: Archie Moore (41 years old), Jersey Joe Walcott (38 years old), Joe Louis (37 years old), Edward Charles was only 33
What were Tyson's greatest victories ???......I would guess and say Tony Tucker but Tucker broke his hand and still gave Tyson a good fight.
If Tyson had beaten a prime Holyfield (before prison), Lennox Lewis, the George Foreman who gave Holyfield a good fight and if he had beaten Riddick Bowe then I would say he had more impressive wins than Rocky and almost as good as Ali but Tyson lost to Holyfield and Lewis both of whom are younger than Tyson.......And if Tyson had also beaten Klitschko that really would have been something.......In all fairness to Tyson, Ali was only 32 when he beat Foreman.
@@USMC-cv5sdnice unrelated copypasta you complete loser 😂😂😂😂
The black Greats??? Whats your point??? He never fought Joe Louis yet lived during the same years. He never fought Jack Johnson yet Dempsey knocked out the man who took Jack Johnson out of Boxing...
16:33 protect yourself at all times
Thts where mayweather learned it
Jack dempsey is a great boxer
Possibly the very best of that era.
Roderick 'Jesse' McMahon, New York Wrestling Promotor & grandfather of
Vince K McMahon, was the co promoter of the Willard fight
Saludos de Firpo!
Tunney was to jack is what buster Douglas was. To Tyson
My birthday twin
Rip burt sugar
Isn't this just the Kings of the ring?
No Son Tunney, he would had not gotten up!
They jogged with belts on
He wouldn’t fight Harry Greb who was a middleweight. Jack sparred with Greb and after 3 Ed’s. Dempsey got out of the ring and told Jack Kearns not to schedule at fight with the Pittsburg windmill
Yep. Very True. There was a bunch of dumb politics in boxing then. No mandatory #1 challenger. Wills was clearly the #1 challenger when instead Willard got the title shot. It should of been Dempsey trying to unseat the Champion Wills in my option.
@@majik_man Willard was chosen by the boxing "commissions" to bring the title back for the white race after Johnson agreed to lay down...but he couldn't fight a lick..
and I agree lots of fighters should've been given shots at Johnson including Langford but Jack drew the color line
@@Bruins-vq5ey There's no way Jack Johnson faked a knockout. It's been vetted countlessly & Endlessly in forums. Folktales often aren't reality. Any examination of the fight disproves this by Jack Johnson throwing everything he had the previous round before he got knocked out. He asked his wife to leave so she wouldn't see him get knocked out. Johnson is just messing with people by claiming such ridiculous thing's (he wasn't the first to be doing this stuff much like corbett).
@@majik_man jack Johnson if wanted would've laid waste to Willard...at any age.
@@Bruins-vq5ey Classic case of sensualizing a fighter. Johnson often had trouble with punches lacking steam. He couldn't knockout Sandy Ferguson in 1904 Costing him a chance at the title at the time. Sandy was afar worse fighter than Willard. His punches weren't hurting Willard. Go look for yourself its on film. He threw everything he had at willard the previous round was totally spent. Then claimed "shading his eyes" was some kind of proof he faked a knockout. Was poor sportsmanship and even then in 1915 the press thought it was ridiculous. Willard had his day just like Buster Douglass. You should read how bad the press was making fun of him for saying he choose to lay down the next few days afterwards. It was merciless. Johnson was a far better champion than Willard but he beat him fair & square.
The man in your thumbnail photo is not Jack Dempsey.
There is a long standing story that Jack Dempsey got beat up on Ogden City, Utah’s notorious 25th Street. ??
Well I just learned about another dude name Sam Langford a middleweight who chased all the heavy weights and a lot of them did not want to fight this little man, its said that Sam Langford once went 60+ rounds and that was normal.
Langford didn't box 60 rounds in a fight. The standard long version of a fight was 25 rounds usually. Fights weren't scheduled for 60 rounds that would be a finish fight which kinda ended with the bareknuckle days.
@@majik_man how long were the rounds Dempsey fought ?
@@fleadoggreen9062 15 Rounds. They were pretty standard from Dempsey to early 80's.
60lbs?
Too bad Tunney didn't get the deserved respect and credit he deserves for being a great boxer, the dance at the end for the two champions was a perfect ending to a little mock boxing round!🥊🌟🏆👍
Marine Corps heavyweight Champions: Tunney, Norton, Weaver and Leon Spinks
How did Charlie Chaplin knock him out?? His whole career he was only KO'd once against Fireman Flynn, but even in that case his brother threw in the towel during a KD.
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Not many people know this but his Father actually made love to a wild mustang and Jack was the love child.
Never fought a Black boxer
Yes the Mauler did,respectfully .
Why with all the homophobia that exists today, you would never see an ending like this in today's world.
Dumbest comment I think I ever seen. If you think homophobia is worse now let’s just say ur a special person
rumor has it Dempsey had metal bars and knuckle dusters in his gloves when fought Willard . if you watch the fight watch Dempsey hands and how he is swinging his arms and hands,, he is not punching he is swinging looping blows, and the damage to Willard is hard to put down to punches. Dempsey was not punching. he was using his arms as clubs to bludgeon Willard. , he drops his hands often because of the weight inside his gloves. ..
Dumbest theory ever. So many people watched his hands get taped (including Willards trainer) your just floating conspiracy with no facts. Zero chance.
@@majik_man yeah it would have been detected I worked with a man in his eighties who owned a restaurant in new York next to Jack Dempsey restaurant they used to play cards together he told me a story about how one day they were playing cards and dempsey was about sixty at the time and this big kid who was about 6 foot 6 230 or more walked up to Dempsey after having too much to drink at twenty four he was a pro boxer and he challenged Dempsey jack told him to back off he was drunk the kid wouldn't shut up so they took it outside the kid threw a right hand that Dempsey easily slipped and knocked him out cold with one punch a straight right Dempsey was real
The Biggest single reason Willard looked so dreadful can easily be traced back to one thing in my mind mind. He wasn't warmed up at all. He had no sweat on him at all, he entered the ring totally cold. He should of been jumping rope or doing something. His footwork was dreadfully slow due to being so cold. He probably figured he would get "warmed up" in no time due to past fight experience but that wasn't the case here. It made him appear far worse than he was because none of his reflexes were even warmed up yet. That's my theory (it happened) to many boxers far after him too. You can't go in so cold. Willard wasn't much of a Journeyman boxer he was a farmer and he made a very critical error due to his inexperience. In my option anyway.
@@charlesciminera5881 how bout the time two toughs tried to roll a 70 yr old Dempsey getting out of a cab..both ended up in the ER
@@Bruins-vq5ey they got off easy Mr Dempsey must have been in a good mood
Tunney didn't win...like buster didn't win
Total bollocks. Tunney, won, Douglas won, end of!!
Gene Tunney beat Dempsey similar to the way Ali beat Liston.
And Dempsey was considerably past his best just like Liston was against Ali
@rebelliousredneckvlogs
Then why was Dempsey and Liston beating everyone else.
Ali was definitely past his prime when he beat Frazier, Foreman, Shavers, Young, and Norton......and others.
@rebelliousredneckvlogs
And I was talking about Ali's style being similar to Dempsey.
It's pretty funny to think that they keep calling him a black panther, when they wouldn't let black people fight... Jack Dempsey you wouldn't have been anything if he would have had to fight black people, not to mention he ducked and dodged a challenge... By today's rules, he would have been stripped and laughed out of the sport
Bullshit! You would have been saying that about Fury, Klitchos, Calzagie, etc...who knocked out the best black fighters of the day!
didn't jack dempsey savagely beat jess willard, the same white man who knocked out jack johnson? lol
🥱 another black guy who hates on successful white fighters. Dempsey wanted to fight Wills and other black fighters, his manager didnt let him.
@@OldSchoolBoxing1 not black goofball... Another white guy that ignores the racism... Go figure...
@@guywilliams6569 umm.... he did have to fight black people, i dont think he had a choice hahahaha, not only that he had to win by knockout otherwise it was called a no decision. "not to mention he ducked and dodged a challenge..." HAHAHAHAHAHA "ducked and dogded" you have no idea who youre talking about, did you forget he fought 10-1 odds against jesse willard the largest man in boxing history at the time... it was only once he became champion he announced he wouldn't fight black people anymore to keep a respected image within an extremely racist age in american history.