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  • Willie Pep 229
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    #1

    It's too quiet

    . . . let's start a fight . . . quick someone say Dempsey was great.
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    #2
    Originally posted by Willie Pep 229
    . . . let's start a fight . . . quick someone say Dempsey was great.
    Most people here would probably agree... LOL

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    • The Old LefHook
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      #3
      This is natural. It is a dying sport.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Willie Pep 229
        . . . let's start a fight . . . quick someone say Dempsey was great.
        Well you never admit that you were wrong about Jeffries statement regarding fighting Johnson in his prime, and you never addressed one of the would be promoters for Dempsey/Wills being Doc Krone, the biggest wrestling promoter of his time, nor the two other prominent promoters at least being willing to promote the fight for good money. NOr Tex Rickard himself claiming Dempsey was pricing himself out of a fight with Wills in the 1920's.


        We had so much to fight about but you blew it. :-|

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        • QueensburyRules
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          #5
          - -It's Weensy time for American boxing. Since emasculation by the K bros, it's been Sisyphus' boulder screaming down the hill of perdition ever since.

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          • Willie Pep 229
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            #6
            Originally posted by travestyny

            Well you never admit that you were wrong about Jeffries statement regarding fighting Johnson in his prime, and you never addressed one of the would be promoters for Dempsey/Wills being Doc Krone, the biggest wrestling promoter of his time, nor the two other prominent promoters at least being willing to promote the fight for good money. NOr Tex Rickard himself claiming Dempsey was pricing himself out of a fight with Wills in the 1920's.


            We had so much to fight about but you blew it. :-|
            All that is your typical rhetoric except the last line - lay that on me - I don't remember having read theTex Rickard remark about Dempsey pricing himself out of the Wills fight. Intetesting! Is that from a primary source or a secondary statement? -- when you can post that article - if it's a repost sorry I missed it - but that is a new one to me - thanks

            P.S. Oh yea, Dempsey was great.

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            • landotter
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              #7
              Not only was Dempsey great.....

              Tyson is overrated.

              Fight me.

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              • Marchegiano
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                #8
                I've done no research recently so i really don't have much to say with any confidence in this section atm.

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                • travestyny
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Willie Pep 229

                  All that is your typical rhetoric except the last line - lay that on me - I don't remember having read theTex Rickard remark about Dempsey pricing himself out of the Wills fight. Intetesting! Is that from a primary source or a secondary statement? -- when you can post that article - if it's a repost sorry I missed it - but that is a new one to me - thanks

                  P.S. Oh yea, Dempsey was great.
                  I've stated that Dempsey was great a number of times here. I don't know many who disagree.


                  And if you're bored and want to pick a fight, please respond regarding the promoters who wanted to stage the fight. Doesn't sound like they were amateurs like you accused them of being, does it?


                  Re: the article, I'm pretty sure I posted it in the other thread.

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                  P.S. Oh yea, Dempsey ducked Harry Wills.
                  Last edited by travestyny; 04-12-2021, 12:52 PM.

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                  • Willie Pep 229
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by travestyny

                    I've stated that Dempsey was great a number of times here. I don't know many who disagree.


                    And if you're bored and want to pick a fight, please respond regarding the promoters who wanted to stage the fight. Doesn't sound like they were amateurs like you accused them of being, does it?


                    Re: the article, I'm pretty sure I posted it in the other thread.

                    Ody5fV.png


                    P.S. Oh yea, Dempsey ducked Harry Wills.
                    1. That's not Rickard saying Dempsey is ducking Wills (he says any other fighter as well) that is Rickard being cheap.

                    2. A year later (I assuming that is 1922 you posted) Rickard paid Dempsey 550K for the Firpo fight.

                    So so much for Rickard's BS

                    You misrepresented Rickard's attitude towards Dempsey

                    Rickard's complaint is not particular to a Wills fight.

                    Finally this is part of that nonsense when YOUR BOYS at the NYSAC threatened to strip Dempsey and then balked like b itches when the day came.

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