January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

when Firpo knocked Dempsey out of the ring. Who (do) you think became (or got)
famous ?Rocky: " Dempsey".Mickey:" And why ? ".Rocky:"
Because he was a champion ".Mickey:" Noooooooo !!!!! It's because he had
a manager".Rocky:"The fight is fixed, I don't need a manager
!".I think Dempsey is a little overrated. He won the title against a
good but not great heavyweight, he was knocked out in 1 by little Fireman Jim
Flynn in 1917 (the year of my grandmother's birth in Florence), his best wins
were against Bill Brennan, Billy Miske, Fred Fulton and Carl Morris, not all
time greats and... He was having a boxing lesson by Jack Sharkey. He retired
from the ring to not fight the rising star Primo Carnera.|
|3/7/05 04:44:51 PM|Kent|La Habra, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Interesting
side note on Dempsey. Reportedly, when he was in his seventies, a couple of
young thugs tried to pull him out of a cab to rob him. Dempsey hit one of the
them with a left hook and the other with a right hand, knocking them both out!
Proof that the big punch is the last thing to go from a fighter's
skills!I guess those two idiots never tried to rob an old man again did
they?|
|3/7/05 05:35:16 PM|Angelo|Washington, DC||funktron@yahoo.com||||10|They picked
the wrong senior to rob! Forrest: That's amazing that you met this legend
twice---and my bet is that he didn't catch many punches because opponents were
too occupied with covering up from his attack!|
|3/7/05 06:12:00 PM|Shawn Bradley|Roma ||4||||10|How wilt was Jack Dempsey ? I
have seen him standing next to Nino Benvenuti in a picture. Nino is 5'10" 1/2
wilt, Jack looked to be about 6'1".|
|3/8/05 09:02:43 AM|Chuck Cunningham|formally of Milwakee, Wisconsi||Monday,
Sunday, Woe is Me Days||||10|Correct, Dempsey was listed at 6'1" Wilt.|
|3/8/05 11:39:05 AM|Shawn|Dallas||5||||10|That's only about 1 foot andreer than
Wilt.|
|3/9/05 03:24:03 AM|Noam|same||same||||10|Dempsey's story was one of resilience
and perserverence. He was 9th of 11 children from a dirt poor family. To make
money he fought in bars as a teenager and turned pro at 19. Imagine the boasting
rights being the world champion from that upringing ! Wow. He invested his money
wisely but innocently lost most of it in the stockmarket crash of
1929.Showing the same courage fans witnessed when he boxed, he
regathered and then prospered that bar Forest wrote about. Everything I've read
about Dempsey praises him as a decent person AFTER he stopped fighting. In his
bar he was respectful to everyone who approached him. Even Red Smith liked him !
To be so thoroughly decent from a terrible upbringing teaches us that no one has
an excuse for being a bad person later in life no matter what happened earlier
on.Dempsey closed his bar in 1974. Forest should be honored to have met
him and I'm sure he is. The Manassa Mauler died in 1983 leaving a modest estate
of between $100,000 and $200,000. Apparently it wasn't hard to be treated to a
free drink from Dempsey.When he died, he was such a prestigious identity
that even President Reagan spoke with sorrow of his death. None of us have done
anything in life when compared to guys like Dempsey. Whatever we think of his
place in the top 10 of great boxers, we should all be awed by his
achievements.Fan - I think you and Kent are okay guys as well. Maybe
even Forest, too (but I'm gonna have to finish reading the 'O'Reilly Factor For
Kids' before making a definitive decision on him).However, I don't like
being blamed for something I didn't do. I posted to Kent querying the
elimination thing in good faith and without trying to be a smart ass. Forest
intervened and abused me, unfairly I thought. I asked Kent to confirm that he
wasn't offended to show Forest I wasn't deliberately being insulting. I was
ignored by Kent, who instead went on to make some disparaging and impatient
comments, consistent with what Forest was obviously prompting him to do, and
then Forest abused me again. What am I, a punching bag ? So I gave
Forest some back plus some. I thought I made a pretty decent go of it, too. I'm