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

The 30-year-old Rozicki became obsessed with Dempsey as a teenager. Dempsey’s violent stoppage of the enormous Jess Willard on YouTube is ingrained in Rozicki’s head. Thanks to YouTube, a ...

It's one of boxing's most endearing legends. Jack Dempsey went to bed on the night of July 4, 1919, after knocking out Jess Willard to claim the heavyweight championship of the world and dreamed ...

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 ...

One hundred years ago — on July 4, 1919 — Jack Dempsey battered Jess Willard over three brutal rounds to claim the heavyweight championship of the world. The world was very different then ...

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.

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.