William Harrison 'Jack' Dempsey was born on June 24, 1895, in Manassa, Colorado. Dempsey, known as the 'Manassa Mauler,' started his professional boxing career in 1914 and was the world ...

Even though boxing has been around for hundreds of years, few athletes have commanded as much respect and reverence as Jack Dempsey ... defense for the layman and professional alike and stresses ...

Jack Dempsey was boxing’s first superstar ... He threw quality punches, inching forwards then exploding. He turned pro in 1914 and built a fearsome reputation fighting at least once a month ...

And boxing? Well, obviously it had Jack ... Dempsey’s wild aggression, he’d had to settle for a decision win over Tommy Gibbons, while Tunney had knocked him out. All told, he won 48 of his 85 ...

See About archive blog posts. BOXING URBAN LEGEND: Jack Dempsey’s gloves were ‘loaded’ when he first won the world heavyweight championship. On the Fourth of July, 1919, 24-year-old William ...

The name “Joseph Cukoschay” was not going to work for a professional boxer. Jack took the names of two boxers he admired, Jack Dempsey and Tom Sharkey. He thought the name “Jack Sharkey ...

Professional ... and Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey's middleweight fight was the first to be conducted with gloves. A few of the most prominent early champions of the professional boxing middleweight ...

In the mid-1910s, after turning pro, Dempsey ... less than two minutes. Dempsey also sparred with Harry Houdini and J. Paul Getty on separate occasions. Before fighting Jack Sharkey on the ...

Jack Dempsey ... in Jersey City, N.J. When the receipts of roughly 91,000 spectators were totaled after Dempsey's four-round knockout, they equaled $1,789,238 -- boxing's first million-dollar ...

For most of his 87 years, boxing legend Jack Dempsey was known the ... according to official fight records, Dempsey had at least one professional fight in Cripple Creek — at the Lyric Opera ...