Does Jack Dempsey's Championship fighting book apply to today

[DIB42]

Just finished reading it, i found it very intriguing, how much of what he writes about applies to boxing today?

[j]

how much applies now?

all of it

[RightCross94]

some of what he says is very good, and his wealth of experience etc shows as he has some good insight on things


but in todays amateur system for example, a lot of the stuff dempsey did as a fighter and talked about in his book wouldnt really score points

[Southpaw Stinger]

Dempsey hated the powder puff punches that dominate the amateur system. His book teaches mainly about fist fighting and a powerful offense. It is valuable if you want to hurt/ko the opponent which obviously still very much applies today. The only thing that might be a downside is that with todays amateur system, you may find yourself quickly outpointed by someone just flicking repeated soft jabs at the top of your headgear.

[Danny_123]

Just finished reading it, i found it very intriguing, how much of what he writes about applies to boxing today?

What is the book actually called, the real name of the book, anywhere you can buy it ?
I'm from the UK so if your from the USA dont recommend American websites as i wont be able to order from there. Cheers lads !

[F l i c k e r]

how much applies now?

all of it

QFT...

[F l i c k e r]

What is the book actually called, the real name of the book, anywhere you can buy it ?
I'm from the UK so if your from the USA dont recommend American websites as i wont be able to order from there. Cheers lads !

How to fight tough by Jack Dempsey.

or

championship fighting by jack dempsey

[RightCross94]

Dempsey hated the powder puff punches that dominate the amateur system. His book teaches mainly about fist fighting and a powerful offense. It is valuable if you want to hurt/ko the opponent which obviously still very much applies today. The only thing that might be a downside is that with todays amateur system, you may find yourself quickly outpointed by someone just flicking repeated soft jabs at the top of your headgear.

lol, soft jabs to the top of the headgear wont score, you need to put weight behind the shots and i hardly ever see jabs scored, unless they snap the head back

[Southpaw Stinger]

lol, soft jabs to the top of the headgear wont score, you need to put weight behind the shots and i hardly ever see jabs scored, unless they snap the head back

Not at all, I've seen quite a lot of these am fights. There's even a gym near where I live that teaches its ams to aim for the top front of the head gear as opposed to the face, so as to snap the opponent's head back. Not much power just continued flicks and they seem to do well in the competitions.

[DIB42]

What is the book actually called, the real name of the book, anywhere you can buy it ?
I'm from the UK so if your from the USA dont recommend American websites as i wont be able to order from there. Cheers lads !

I think on amazon or whatever they want like $300 for it, if you want to just read it and not own it, its available in pdf on many different websites,

i found it by searching for it on google.... i think the best quality version I found was on a site called something like fullcirclefighting.com