Champions Maybe? & Military Service!

[QueensburyRules]

Dempsey's trainer Jimmy DeForest is on record saying he wrapped Jack's hands with electrical tape so maybe that's what DocKearns was talking about.

- -We have a B&W of Dempsey sitting in his corner prefight wraps exposed as standard. We have the video of Jess coming over to check them, grabbing them with his hands.

Welcome to point us to the handwrapping regulations of 1919. Don't spend the rest of U life looking for this Holy Grail. Please do come back on occasion for our amusement.

[ShoulderRoll]

- -We have a B&W of Dempsey sitting in his corner prefight wraps exposed as standard. We have the video of Jess coming over to check them, grabbing them with his hands.

Welcome to point us to the handwrapping regulations of 1919. Don't spend the rest of U life looking for this Holy Grail. Please do come back on occasion for our amusement.

Nobody provides more entertainment here than your goofy ass.

All I'm saying is that Jimmy DeForest appears to corroborate what Doc Kearns said. And we know that wrapping with electrical tape was a common "trick" at that time.

[GhostofDempsey]

Some fighters actually learned how to box in the military. Ken Norton learned in the Marines, Leon Spinks honed his boxing skills there too. Gunboat Smith learned how to box in the Navy. Barney Ross took a different turn. He actually enlisted in the Marines after he retired from boxing. He went on to see combat in the Pacific Theater and earned a Silver Star.

I believe Gene Fullmer's boxing career was interrupted early on when he went off to war in Korea. Ezzard Charles lost over a year of his prime while serving in the military towards the end of WWII.

[QueensburyRules]

Nobody provides more entertainment here than your goofy ass.

All I'm saying is that Jimmy DeForest appears to corroborate what Doc Kearns said. And we know that wrapping with electrical tape was a common "trick" at that time.

- -Kearns said "PLASTER!"

No corroboration, nada. Maybe Big Bill Tate said marshmallows. Still no corroboration.

[ShoulderRoll]

- -Kearns said "PLASTER!"

No corroboration, nada. Maybe Big Bill Tate said marshmallows. Still no corroboration.

Ok.

Fair point, grampa.