Football had “Red” Grange. Golf had Bobby Jones. And boxing? Well, obviously it had Jack Dempsey, “The Manassa Mauler,” whose heavyweight title run lifted the sport to new heights at the ...
Over the years, plenty of legendary fighters have graced heavyweight boxing. But who are the top 10? Teddy Atlas recently ...
However, heavyweight greats Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey are among the top ten. Ali, a three-time world ...
Sure to cause debate (but then that's half the fun), boxing brain Teddy Atlas has listed his top 10 greatest ever ...
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 ...
Jack Sharkey, a Lithuanian-born boxer named Joseph Paul Zukauskas, took his ring name from combining his two favourite pugilists, Jack Dempsey and Tom Sharkey. The name helped him gain acceptance ...
It was the biggest boxing match the world of 1927 had ever seen. It ended in one of the sport’s greatest controversies.