Oleksander Usyk could make boxing history. Usyk will face old foe Daniel Dubois this summer at London’s Wembley Stadium. And should he win and retire undefeated ...

No sooner had Johnson defeated Tommy Burns to win the heavyweight championship than white America ... before meeting Jack Dempsey in Toledo, Ohio, on July 4, 1919. Dempsey knocked down Willard ...

Heavyweight champion of the world ... In his case he felt the ghosts of Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson and Joe Louis, previous champions, rise back to life in him. He would walk into a room full ...

We are going to take a look at Great Boxers who beat once former greats. So, who’s better when considering both meeting in their prime, or due to some ...

in a heavyweight championship bout between the 30-year-old champion, Gene Tunney, and the 32-year-old former champion, Jack Dempsey. Tunney, nicknamed the Fighting Marine, had taken the title from ...

For example, David Tua was perhaps the best heavyweight ... Championship” – Wills came closest to securing a title shot, but couldn’t quite get across the color line drawn by Jack Dempsey ...

Prizefighter Jack Dempsey, Tennist Bill Tilden. Oldest (44) of the four, Tilden’s years of supremacy began when he first won the U. S. championship ... won the world’s heavyweight title ...

Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature writer for ...