Before fighting Jack Sharkey on the comeback trail in 1927, Dempsey trained in the hills outside Ojai, Calif. He chopped trees, carried rocks, and did calisthenics to drop more than 20 pounds.

The 1920s were the Golden Age of Sports. In boxing, nobody was more golden -- though not immediately -- than Jack Dempsey. Like Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Bill Tilden and Bobby Jones, Dempsey was the ...

Tunney kept playing for Jack's face and had it cut and bleeding, and Dempsey was shaky as the round ended. Both Wild In 10th Both plajed for a knockout in the tenth, swinging wildly.

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." ...

Gene Tunney advised: "Drink two quarts of milk a day and think of nothing but boxing." National Portrait Gallery, SI Tunney's boxing gloves from the famous 1927 "long count" fight with Jack ...

When Dempsey and his latest manager Jack Price hit New York in the summer of 1916, the Big Apple was experiencing a sapping heatwave. The two men looked hideously conspicuous as the trudged the ...

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.