In boxing, nobody was more golden -- though not immediately -- than Jack ... title. Dempsey was five inches shorter and 58 pounds lighter than the 6-foot-6, 245-pound champion, Jess Willard.

Well, obviously it had Jack Dempsey ... a fighter.” Dempsey’s first loss to Tunney was a shock to the sports world. He hadn’t been beaten in nearly a decade. He’d been heavyweight champ ever since he ...