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 ...

One hundred years ago — on July 4, 1919 — Jack ... Professional Football Conference) existed. Rocky Marciano had yet to be born. Dempsey-Willard is an important milestone in the history of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suddenly it all clicked. All the pieces of the jigsaw fell into place and Jack Dempsey was flying, ripping and barnstorming his way to a fight with Jess Willard Suddenly it all clicked.

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 ...

Ireland has a proud tradition of producing great boxers, stretching back to Nonpareil Jack Dempsey right through ... four of his final five fights as a professional, but those late defeats should ...