William Harrison Dempsey ; June 24, 1895 , Manassa , USA - May 31, 1983 , New York , USA ), better known as Jack Dempsey - American professional boxer , film actor , world heavyweight champion, also known by the nickname Kid Blackie ( Eng. Kid Blackie ) and Kostolom from Manassa ( Eng. Manassa Mauler ). He was distinguished by a very distinctive attacking style, super-aggressive even by American standards. Mike Tyson , who idolized Dempsey and repeatedly reviewed the newsreels of his fights from the vast video library of his manager Jim Jacobs, tried to copy some of Dempseyβs most famous coronary techniques, organically incorporating them into his own style [4] .
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| Full name | William Harrison Dempsey |
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| Place of Birth | Manassa , Colorado , USA |
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| Accommodation | Salt Lake City , USA |
| Rack | Righty |
| Height | 186 |
| Arm span | 196 |
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| First fight | August 17, 1913 |
| The last battle | September 22, 1927 |
| Number of battles | 83 |
| Number of wins | 62 |
| KOs | 51 |
| Defeat | 6 |
| No one's | 9 |
| Failed | 3 |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Personal life
- 2 "The Sun of Dempsey"
- 3 Style
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
William Harrison Dempsey was born June 24, 1895 in Colorado . Mixed Irish and Native American blood flowed in his veins. A native of a poor family, he began to seriously fight at the age of 16.
Until 19 years he worked as an auxiliary worker in mines. In 1914, when he was offered to play in a regular boxing match for a small amount, he took the nickname Kid Blackie for the ring. Soon he changed his pseudonym to Jack Dempsey, the name and surname of the first ever middleweight champion of 1884-1891, nicknamed "Incomparable."
By the end of 1916, Jack was the No. 1 boxer in Utah. Another two years took preparation for the champion battle. In the first half of 1918, when Jack consecutively defeated Billy Brennan, Homer Smith, Joe Flynn and Karl Morris - all fights were won ahead of schedule - he was considered one of the main contenders for the world title. And finally, his rights were confirmed by the end of 1918 with early victories over giant Fred Fulton, Barney Lebrowitz, Ed Smith and again over Carl Morris. The world champion at that time was giant Jess Willard - a boxer of impressive size (height - 198.5 cm, arm span - 211 cm). The Willard β Dempsey championship fight took place in Toledo (Ohio) on a hot day on July 4, 1919 - when the boxers entered the ring, the temperature reached 43 Β° C [5] . Despite the fact that before the fight, bets were taken with a slight margin of 6/5 in favor of Willard, the battle ended quickly. For the 4th round, the champion did not come out.
On July 2, 1921, David Sarnov , general director of the Radio Corporation of America, formed shortly before that, made a sensational radio report about the match between heavy boxers Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier , organized in Jersey City by promoter Jack Dempsey - Tex Rickard ( George Leward ) . The match, which ended with Dempsey's victory by knockout in the fourth round, brought the organizer a record revenue for the entire previous history of boxing - more than one million dollars, and the report allowed the Sarnov company to significantly increase the sales of radios that were not in high demand until then, and sell them over the next three years worth more than $ 80 million.
For more than seven years, Jack Dempsey unconditionally ruled in the professional ring, until September 23, 1926, lost on points to Gene Tunney . The rematch, which passed a year later, also brought a victory to Tunney. After that, Dempsey actually left the ring, speaking only in demonstration matches until 1932. After the career of a fighter, he entered the ring for several years as a boxing and wrestling referee. After retiring from sports, he went into business, became the owner of a fashionable restaurant in New York, which hosted charity evenings for boxing veterans at Christmas.
In 1954, the name Jack Dempsey was inducted into the US Boxers Hall of Fame, and in 1990 - in the International Boxing Hall of Fame .
He died in 1983 at the age of 87.
Personal life
He was married to the popular silent film actress Estella Taylor . The marriage ended in divorce in 1930.
The Dempsey's Sun
One of the tricks used by Jack Dempsey. This is a combined counterattack in response to an opponentβs side impact. It is a dive under the beating hand (possibly with a simultaneous blow to the body), a feint to the outside and a side blow to the head.
Style
Dempsey entered the ring in black shorts and boxers on his bare foot, without a dressing gown, with a specific haircut, short on the sides, sometimes with a straight, sometimes with a side part or without parting. This style of clothes and shoes, haircuts and hairstyles, was subsequently adopted first by Mike Tyson, who considered himself the heir to Dempsey in boxing, and then Ike Ibeabuchi .
Notes
- β 1 2 EncyclopΓ¦dia Britannica
- β 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- β 1 2 Internet Broadway Database - 2000.
- β Tyson & His Hero Jack Dempsey - Comparison Highlights by David Christian.
- β Jack Dempsey KOs Jess Willard This Day July 4, 1919 . Boxing Hall of Fame, Inc. (July 4, 2016). Date of treatment December 24, 2016.
Links
- Track record (Eng.)
- Jack Dampsy's dummy fight?
- The fight of the "long count"
- Willis Stork. Toledo's Day In The Sun. An Account of the 1919 Dempsey-Willard Prizefight . Pasadena, California Polytechnic School . Date of treatment December 24, 2016.