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.

Tunney, he wrote, “is belittled to this day, particularly by fans who never saw him, simply because he whipped Jack Dempsey.” Tunney retired with an official record of 80-1-3, with one no contest.

When boxer Jack Dempsey entered the championship match on the Fourth of July 1919, he faced a 6-foot 7-inch, 240-pound incredible hulk with a reach of almost seven feet.

It lasted only 237 seconds. There were 12 knockdowns. The two fighters were forever immortalized. One hundred years later, the Jack Dempsey-Luis Angel Firpo fight remains a classic. On Sept. 14 ...

The July 4, 1923, heavyweight title fight between Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons in Shelby, Montana, stands out as one of the most economically disastrous events in boxing history.

It was 2017. Jack Dempsey was early 20s and going places. Nobody could foretell that the place he was going to, eventually, was Glasgow. Had you said back then that the forward who played at the ...

Dempsey knocked out opponent George Coplen in the sixth round. According to legend, “Kid Blackie” had become Jack Dempsey on May 13, 1913, at Lyric Opera House.

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.” ...