Why do you like Jack Dempsey?

Question

I need to pretend i like Jack Dempsey for a radio broadcast im making for school. What are some of the reasons that YOU like him? If you don't like him then please don't answer this question. thankyou.

Answer 1

Fighting style, and a tough guy, (though Greb punked him in sparring sessions).

Answer 2

Sorry,I know you said not to answer,but it's kinda hard to like a man who refused to fight black fighters and a man who sparred w/ n**i war machine Max Schmelling to try to help him beat America's Joe Louis.

Answer 3

Great answer Elmer and thumbs up for that.

However, I would just add that James J. Jeffries did fight from a crouch and James J. Corbett did use the distance tactic to avoid being hit.

Likely Jack Dempsey is so liked because he was champ during the roaring 20's, when everything seemed larger than life, and for the way he lost the title in his two fights with Tunney, particularly their second fight, the Battle of the Long Count. In the early part of his reign Dempsey was actually unpopular and was called everything from a "cheesecake" champion to a draft dodger.

Answer 4

hes old school

Answer 5

I don't really like Dempsey. If Jack Johnson had never thrown his fight vs Jess Willard, Dempsey never would have been champion. And after he was champion he would go for periods of years with out defending the belt. If you are champion, cool, go fight. You do not sit on the belt like that, B.S.

Answer 6

I'm sure a really good boxing historian could tell me that I'm wrong, but I consider Jack Dempsey the first modern practitioner of the type of boxing we see today.  He fought with a crouching style and aggressiveness that wasn't before seen.  There was a time where boxing was exclusively fought in an upright, stiff stance with both opponents fencing with straight punches and blocking with their arms rather than moving their heads.  Dempsey didn't fight that way, and I'd like to know how he came about to that style.  His technique of gaining power for his hooking punches was as good then as it is today.  His fight with Jess Williard ushered in the new era of fighting; the stiff, upright Williard was overwhelmed in such a way that boxing was never the same.  Fighters had to abandon the old methods to compete with Dempsey.  What bore out of this was that the singular upright style went away, and fighters had to pick either the aggressive Dempsey style of slugging, or the style that Gene Tunney adapted:  the classic defensive boxer.  Many of today's fighters are hybrids of those 2 styles, but all fighters today are either primarily a boxer or primarily a slugger.  You can trace that development all the way back to the way Dempsey demolished Williard.

Here you can see the previous style of boxing, between 2 upright fighters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp20AKdyy...

Here you can see Dempsey fight Williard. Notice how Dempsey attacks from a crouch.  Williard has no idea how to defend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VawHgrLvb...

Here you can see the style developed to compete with Dempsey.  Notice how the opponent now uses his feet to affect the range of where the fight takes places, thus reducing punching opportunities for the crouching, aggressive Dempsey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm1pXS7Qu...