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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Jack Dempsey and his manager Jack Kearns walked away with around $300,000 (about $5.2 million in 2023 dollars). In 1989, the L.A. Times called Kearns “one of the great sports conmen of the century." ...

More than 1,000 fans showed up to greet heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey when his train pulled into Spokane. “Then Jack stepped from the train,” The Spokesman-Review said.