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Old 05-12-2008, 03:17 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bradlee180 View Post
The prime "Manassa Mauler" Jack Dempsey circa 1918 to 1921, fits your description to a tee.

Very clear film of Dempsey-Willard (can download preview clip.)
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Jack Dempsey: To Victory.
YouTube - Jack Dempsey: To Victory

RE: The opening 90 seconds of Dempsey/Willard with Dempsey circling his prey before the carnage begins, and the sparring session with 6′6½″ Big Bill Tate as Dempsey prepared for Willard:
By God, that man could MOVE.

Ray Arcel trained Roberto Duran for a while (and Barney Ross, Tony Zale, Ezzard Charles, and Larry Holmes), and Arcel considered Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, and Muhammad Ali to be the 3 Greatest Heavyweights of All-Time.

Gene Tunney,1952- "Jack was no wild slugger.He was an extremely clever fusion of fighter and boxer..Gibbons was one of the all-time great boxers.Yet Gibbons could not outscore Dempsey..Unable to reach this clever opponent with a knockout punch,he(Dempsey) was still a fine enough combination of fighter and boxer to outscore him all the way."

Unfortunately, Dempsey's most destructive year, 1918 as a contender, went unfilmed.

Folks often wrongfully chalk Dempsey up as a 1-dimensional slugger nowadays based on a handful of films, most of them when he was past his prime.

Dempsey was more like a Heavyweight Roberto Duran.
It's interesting how you manage to insert Dempsey into so many threads....

Justifying it at the end by calling him a HW Roberto Duran...how 'bout calling Duran a LW Dempsey...

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