“FLASHBACK” … This article feature was originally published on www.dmboxing on August 13, 2018

By David Martinez / Boxing Historian / dmboxing.com

The Fight – Heavyweight Championship

Date – July 4, 1919

Site – Bay View Park Arena, Toledo, Ohio

Distance – Scheduled for 12 rounds

Knockdowns – Willard down seven times in Round 1

Result – 3rd round stoppage (KO3) as Willard called a halt after Round 3 ended

Attendance – 19,650

Purses – Willard $100,000 and Dempsey $27,500  아이폰 유튜브 영상 다운로드.

Promoters – Tex Rickard and Frank Flournoy

Known as “Kid Blackie” and “The Manassa Mauler”, Jack Dempsey was certainly one of the greatest heavyweights in the history of boxing 롤러코스터3.

Born William Harrison Dempsey on June 24, 1895 in Manassa, Colorado, he competed from 1914 to 1927 and reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1919 to 1926 with five successful title defenses, against Billy Miske (KO3), Bill Brennan (KO12), Georges Carpentier (KO4), Tommy Gibbons (W15), and Luis Ángel Firpo (KO2), before losing the title to Gene Tunney (L10) nwc 무료.  

Dempsey had a total of 75 bouts with 54 wins (44 by knockout), 6 losses, 9 draws, and 6 no-decisions.  He was inducted into the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954, the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1980 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990 다운로드.

In the 1920’s Dempsey ranked second only to Babe Ruth among the greatest sports icons in America.  He officially announced his retirement from the ring on March 4, 1928. 

In August of 1975, I visited the Jack Dempsey Museum in Manassa, Colorado.  It certainly was a highlight for me to that point in my younger days and since the beginning of my involvement in boxing that started way back in 1961  다운로드.  Here’s sharing a few of those photos from 1975; please note that the one damaged photo is me posing with the actual gloves Dempsey wore in the Firpo fight on September 14, 1923.