If you’re looking for the spot where Jack Dempsey defended the world heavyweight title against Tommy Gibbons in a fight that brought financial ruin upon an entire town on July 4, 1923, the directions ...

It’s an embedded piece of Montana folklore. In the summer of 1923, a handful of wide-eyed local boosters in Shelby managed to lure the world heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Dempsey, and a leading ...

Dempsey-Gibbons title bout in 1923 nearly took town down for the count St. Paul heavyweight Tommy Gibbons was a game challenger for Jack Dempsey — Gibbons was the first boxer to last 15 rounds with ...

FARGO — It must have gone through the minds of many in Fargo-Moorhead that July 4, 1923. What better way to celebrate America, they thought, than to cheer on a Minnesota guy — an underdog —hoping to ...

It lasted only 237 seconds. There were 12 knockdowns. The two fighters were forever immortalized. One hundred years later, the Jack Dempsey-Luis Angel Firpo fight remains a classic. On Sept. 14, 1923, ...

The longshoreman's son -- Kid blackie -- The reluctant warrior -- A chance meeting -- Dempsey: slacker or American hero? -- The great Bennah and Barney Lebrowitz -- Tunney begins to get noticed - for ...