See About archive blog posts. BOXING URBAN LEGEND: Jack Dempsey’s gloves were ‘loaded’ when he first won the world heavyweight championship.

St. Paul's Tommy Gibbons was a game challenger for heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, but having to pony up a $300,000 guarantee for Dempsey nearly bankrupted the tiny town of Shelby, Mont.

The Long Count: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney and the boxing controversy that defined an era It was the biggest boxing match the world had ever seen. It ended in one of the sport’s greatest ...

Heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey beat plucky challenger Tom Gibbons in Shelby, Mont., in what the Spokane Daily Chronicle described as the “biggest fiasco in the history of boxing.” The fiasco ...

Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier were barely back in their dressing rooms when The Jersey Journal presses began humming with a special edition. In front of more than 92,000 fans, Dempsey ...

100 years ago, the Jack Dempsey-Luis Angel Firpo fight made New York the capital of boxing Jack Dempsey, left, knocks down Luis Angel Firpo during their fight at the Polo Grounds on Sept. 14, 1923.

Jack Dempsey, a beefy, boisterous son of the Irish Channel who became a police reporter renowned for a booming voice, an ever-present straw hat and cigar, and a dogged determination ...

More than 1,000 fans showed up to greet heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey when his train pulled into Spokane.