The Battle of the Long Count

[Lance Uppercut]

The whole controversy was perpetuated by die hard Dempsey fans.

Now days sometimes you will even hear Tyson fanboys make the same argument about the first Tyson vs Douglas knock down.

[ICB]

I remember seeing this ages ago it was atleast 14-15 seconds, the rules had just been changed then thats why Jack Dempsey didn't go to the neutral corner, but the ref was also counting very slow i think Jack Dempsey should of got the win.

But Gene Tunney was the better fighter clearly, Jack Dempsey didn't win many rounds out of there two fights combined. Gene Tunney was the first Heavyweight that used movement like that he was a terrific fighter, and was only beat by Harry Greb i believe and Gene Tunney beat Harry Greb 2-1. So that just shows you how great Gene Tunney was.

[HOMETOWN CHAMP]

i always thought that it really didnt matter. To me it seens that tunney could of gotten up even if the count was on time, and besides it wasnt his fault that his opponent broke the rules.

[rjj tszyu]

The whole controversy was perpetuated by die hard Dempsey fans.

Now days sometimes you will even hear Tyson fanboys make the same argument about the first Tyson vs Douglas knock down.

I hear Tyson fans saying this also and yes Douglas was down longer than the referee's count but he was waiting for the count. Don King blew that incident out of proportion!