Re: Boxers charged or convicted in beating up women
Originally Posted by
marbleheadmaui
Originally Posted by
Master
Originally Posted by
Hornfinger
Originally Posted by
generalbulldog
Originally Posted by
erics44
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.
Well defended but he was a hard and horrible man, just like Tyson. I admire them in the ring but as Snakey said they would never be a good friend.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
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