Career Capsule: "The Manassa Mauler" Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey
Date of Birth: June 24, 1895
Hails from: Manassa, Colorado
Record: Accounts Vary -

• 48-5-8, 43 KO, 6 No Decision (BoxRec)

• 63-6-9, 53 KO, 6 No Decisions (Wiki)

Lineal Championships

• World Heavyweight (1919-26, 5 Defenses)

Additional Titles

• National Boxing Association Heavyweight (1921-26, 2 Defenses) - Inaugural

• New York State Athletic Commission (1922-26, 2 Defenses) - Inaugural

• Ring Magazine (1922-26, 2 Defenses) - Inaugural

Record in Title Fights: 6-2, 5 KO

Ranked Opponents (Ring Magazine Rankings; Lineal Champions in Bold)

• 09/23/1926: L10 Gene Tunney (Ring #3, Cover Date: 02/26 - Hvy)

• 07/21/1927: KO7 Jack Sharkey (Ring #3, CD: 02/27 - Hvy)

• 09/22/1927: L10 Gene Tunney (World Heavyweight Champion)

Notable Opponents (Pre-Ring Magazine Rankings)

• 07/14/1916: ND10 John Lester Johnson

• Fireman Jim Flynn

  • 02/13/1917 - KO by 1

  • 02/14/1918 - KO1

• Willie Meehan

  • 03/28/1917 - L4

  • 07/25/1917 - W4

  • 08/10/1917 - D4

  • 09/07/1917 - D4

  • 09/13/1918 - L4

• Carl Morris

  • 11/02/1917 - W4

  • 02/04/1918 - DQ6

  • 12/16/1918 - KO1

• 09/26/1917: W4 Bob McAllister

• 02/25/1918: TKO6 Bill Brennan

• 05/03/1918: ND10 Billy Miske

• 07/27/1918: KO1 Fred Fulton

• 11/06/1918: KO3 Battling Levinsky

• 11/28/1918: ND6 Billy Miske

• 07/04/1919: TKO3 Jess Willard (World Heavyweight Champion)

• 09/06/1920: KO3 Billy Miske

• 12/14/1920: KO12 Bill Brennan

• 07/02/1921: KO4 Georges Carpentier

• 07/04/1923: W15 Tommy Gibbons

• 09/14/1923: KO2 Luis Firpo

Honorarium

• Ring Magazine Fighter or the Year (1923)

• BWAA Fighter of the Year (1938)

• Ring Magazine Hall of Fame Inaugural Class (1954)

• Ring Magazine 50th Anniversary Top 10 Events #1 (Firpo), #3 (Tunney I), #4 (Tunney II), and #10 (Gibbons) - 1972

• Ring Magazine 50th Anniversary Top 10 Personalities #1 - 1972

• Ring Magazine Greatest Heavyweight All-Time #2 (1975)

• Big Book of Boxing Greatest Heavyweights in History #4 - 1978

• International Boxing Hall of Fame Inaugural Class (1990)

• Ring Magazine Greatest Heavyweight All-Time #5 (1994)

• Ring Magazine 100 Greatest Title Fights of All-Time #3, #80 (1996 - Vs. Firpo, Carpentier)

• Ring Magazine Ten Greatest Puncher of All-Time #6 (1997)

• International Boxing Digest Greatest Heavyweights All-Time #7 (1997)

• Ring Magazine Greatest Heavyweight All-Time #9 (1998)

• Associated Press Fighter of the Century #6 (1999)

• Associated Press Heavyweight of the Century #4 (1999)

• ESPN Sports Century Top Athletes #52 (1999)

• Ring Magazine 20 Greatest Fighters of the 20th Century #6 (1999)

• Ring Magazine 12 Most Exciting Rounds All-Time #2 (2001, Rd. 1 vs. Firpo)

• Ring Magazine 80 Greatest Fighters of the Last 80 Years #16 (2002)

• Ring Magazine 100 Greatest Punchers of All-Time #7 (2003)

• International Boxing Research Organization Greatest Heavyweight All-Time #4 (2005)

• International Boxing Research Organization 25 Greatest All-Time #18 (2006)

• Boxing News Top Ten Fighters 1909-39 #3 (2009)

• BoxingScene Top 25 Heavyweights of All-Time #10 (2010)

• Ring Magazine Greatest Heavyweight All-Time #6 (2017)

• International Boxing Research Organization Pound-for Pound All-Time #18 (2019)

• International Boxing Research Organization Greatest Heavyweight All-Time #3 (2019)

• Ring Magazine 100 Greatest Punchers of the Last 100 Years #4 (2022)