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 ...

– 1921: The Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier heavyweight match, before 80,183 at Rickard’s Orchard in Jersey City, becomes the first million-dollar gate in boxing history. Dempsey wins by ...

Dempsey vs. Georges Carpentier was contested on July 2, 1921, in a temporary arena on the outskirts of Jersey City, N.J. More than 80,000 spectators (the largest crowd in America to witness a ...

More than 2,500 boxing fans jammed Monroe Street to hear the blow-by-blow accounts of the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier heavyweight championship fight, courtesy of the Spokane Daily Chronicle.