Boxers charged or convicted in beating up women

[marbleheadmaui]

how do you become a professional rapist?

From what I got from the other message board, Jack Dempsey was paid to rape and devirginize girls in brothels.

Who wouldn't want that job?

I knew Dempsey was a hobo and pimped his wife and did not fight in the army and would not fight a black fighter as champion but otherwise he was an OK fella.

Not that Demspey needs me to defend him, but a couple of things.
1. Dempsey was a hard, hard man who came from brutal circumstances.
2. He tried to enlist for WWI and was turned down, the slacker charge has been discredited. In WWII I think he enlisted in the Coast Guard at 45 when he didn't have to.
3. He signed twice to fight Harry Wills but nobody would promote the fight. The Johnson-Jeffries riots scarred the sport for a long time.

Now Jack Dempsey was about as far from a saint as a man can be. But certain myths prevail about him that as near as I can determine simply aren't true.