Jack Dempsey
Awards And Accomplishments
1919 | Won heavyweight title against Jess Willard |
1920 | Defended title successfully against Billy Miske |
1920 | Defended title successfully against Bill Brennan |
1921 | Defended title successfully against Georges Carpentier |
1923 | Defended title successfully against Tommy Gibbons |
1923 | Defended title successfully against Luis Angel Firpo |
1926 | Lost title to Gene Tunney |
1950 | Named greatest boxer of the half-century by the Associated Press |
1954 | Charter inductee to Boxing Hall of Fame |
1990 | Inducted officially to Boxing Hall of Fame Dempsey retired with a career record of eighty total bouts, sixty wins, six losses, eight draws, fifty knockouts and six no decisions. |
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