JACK DEMPSEY - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 12/06/1940 - HFSID 251671
Price: $400.00
JACK DEMPSEY
Black and white early publicity photograph of Jack Dempsey.
Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Ken Ball/Best always/from Your
Friend/Jack Dempsey/12-6-40". B/w, 7¾10. Billed as the "Manassa Mauler"
and the "toughest man ever to come out of the West," the 6-foot, 190-pound
Dempsey met the 6-foot-6, 250-pound heavyweight champion Jess Willard on July 4,
1919, at Toledo, OH. Dempsey won on a 3rd-round knockout. During the next seven
years, Dempsey defended his title only six times but made a lot of money in the
process. His fight against Frenchman Georges Carpentier on July 2, 1921
produced boxing's first $1 million gate. He lost his title to Gene Tunney on
September 23, 1926 in a ten-round decision after which he retired. Named the greatest fighter of the half-century in a
1950 Associated Press poll, he won 60 professional fights, 49 by knockout; lost
7, 1 by knockout; and fought 7 draws, 5 no-decisions, and 1 no-contest. Worn
at edges, right blank border is partially missing, scratch from original
negative reproduced at right blank margin. Overall, fine
condition.
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