Willard made just one official defense over the next four years, before meeting Jack Dempsey in Toledo, Ohio, on July 4, 1919. Dempsey knocked down Willard seven times in the first round and ...

Jack-Rozicki, for the WBC cruiserweight ... became obsessed with Dempsey as a teenager. Dempsey’s violent stoppage of the enormous Jess Willard on YouTube is ingrained in Rozicki’s head.

We are going to take a look at Great Boxers who beat once former greats. So, who’s better when considering both meeting in their prime, or due to some ...

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Dempsey's biggest bouts included his title win against Jess Willard in 1919 ... knocked out Georges Carpentier, and beat Jack Dempsey twice. "Who had ever seen a fighter who read books and ...

Credit: AP/Jack Dempsey He was told it was about 23 years after Salaam won the Heisman Trophy in 1994. “How many years after his death?” Sanders asked. Informed it was less than one ...

1975 FAI Senior Cup winners, back row, from left, Tony Higgins, Mick Brophy, Noel King and Mick O’Grady, with, front row, Brian Daly, Jack Dempsey and Joe Smith during Monday's media ...

From larger-than-life heavyweights like Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis to national heroes such as Julio Cesar Chavez and Roberto Duran, some of the greatest sportsmen in history made their name in the ...

Credit: AP/Jack Dempsey Once the retired ceremony concluded, the Buffaloes got down to the business of football. Namely, finding a successor for Shedeur Sanders. It figures to be a two-QB race ...

National Portrait Gallery, SI Tunney's boxing gloves from the famous 1927 "long count" fight with Jack Dempsey. Hugh Talman, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution A new ...