Jack Dempsey, one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time and a great hero to all us kids back in the 1920s, came to Rochester, Minn., for a checkup at the Mayo Clinic and a visit with Dr. W… ...

BILLINGS, Mont. -- The autographed boxing gloves worn by Jack Dempsey in a 1923 heavyweight title fight sold at auction for $30,000. A physician from Seattle phoned in the winning bid Saturday, ...

BILLINGS (AP) — The autographed boxing gloves worn by Jack Dempsey in a 1923 heavyweight title fight in Shelby sold at auction Saturday for $30,000.

A pair of boxing gloves worn and signed by boxer Jack Dempsey sold for $30,000 Saturday at an auction at MetraPark Arena in Billings. A doctor from Seattle phoned in the winning bid, said ...

A pair of 84-year-old boxing gloves — two lumps of orangey leather, ... Gene Tunney wore these mitts to defeat Jack Dempsey and retain the heavyweight title in their controversial 1927 rematch.

Jack Dempsey was boxing’s first superstar. There were other great fighters before him, founding fathers like Gentleman Jim Corbett, John L Sullivan and Jack Johnson. But Dempsey arrived at a ...

Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali admires the fist of boxing great Jack Dempsey as they gag it up for the camera at the Boxing Writers' Association's annual dinner in New York on Jan. 17, 1965.

The world's heavyweight boxing champion from 1919 to 1926, an iconic figure in America's Golden Age of Sports, and a one-time Reno resident, Dempsey is among the Class of 2014 that will be ...

On July 4, 1919, Jack Dempsey battered Jess Willard over three brutal rounds to claim the heavyweight championship. The bout is an important milestone in the history of boxing and symbolizes the ...

A pair of 84-year-old boxing gloves — two lumps of orangey leather, scarcely bigger than ski mittens, newly arrived but not yet on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American ...