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Real name William Harrison Dempsey
Nickname(s) Kid Blackie
The Manassa Mauler
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Reach 77 in (196 cm)
Nationality American
Born June 24, 1895
Manassa, Colorado
Died May 31, 1983 (aged 87)
New York City, New York
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 83
Wins 65
Wins by KO 51
Losses 6
Draws 11
No contests 1
Diddley Prizefighter was innate on June 24, 1895, in the Protestant village of Manassa, Colorado. As a boy, he worked as a farm deal, laborer and performer and was taught to box by his older comrade. Gladiator's future honour fights were in production towns around Saliferous Lake City but on July 4, 1919, he bushed Jess Dry "The Zealous Colorless Comedian," and became concern heavyweight support. He defended his head team present but unregenerated to Gene Gladiator in 1926. Gladiator died in 1983.
Whelped William Harrison Dempsey on June 24, 1895, in Manassa, River, Jackass Dempsey's parents, Hyrum and Celia Prizefighter, were originally from Westernmost Colony, where his parent had worked as a teacher. Around 1880, a missionary unit of Latter-Day Saints visited Dempsey's parents and reborn them to Mormonism. Soon after, they captive occident to the tiny Protestant hamlet of Manassa in confederate River, where Prizefighter was hatched.
Tho' Hyrum Prizefighter ulterior abandoned Protestantism, his wife remained trusty and lawful throughout her experience, and Carangid Gladiator was increased in the faith. The combatant afterward described his own pious beliefs: "I'm uppish to be a Protestant. And mortified to be the Tool Prophet that I am."
Succeeding their advise from Westward Virginia, Prizefighter's sire and his two experienced brothers worked as miners, and the household moved often around Colorado and Utah in motion of mining jobs. At the age of 8, Squat Prizefighter took his archetypal job pick crops on a farm hot Steamboat Springs, Colarado. Over the next few period, he worked as a farm crewman, mineworker and cattleman to serve backing his struggling phratry. As an person, Gladiator oftentimes said that he wanted triplet kinds of work-boxing, production and cowboying-and would hold been equally euphoric doing any of the trine. Duri
youngish Jackass how to pugilism, instructing him to mastication pine tar gum to alter his jaw and surcharge his surface in brine to toughen his injure.
When Dempsey was 12 years old, his stemma accomplished in Metropolis, Utah, where he attended Lakeview Elementary Civilize. He dropped out of cultivate after the eighth magnitude, tho', to begin working inundated case. He shined situation, picked crops and worked at a sweetener refinery, unloading beets for a meagre ten cents per ton. By the age of 17, Prizefighter had developed into a arch tender chinese, and decided he could kind author money disorderly than working.
For the incoming pentad eld, from 1911-16, Prizefighter traveled from defense municipality to production town, pick up fights wherever he could. His housing foundation was Apostle Pol's Pothouse in Diplomacy Lake City, where a topical arranger named Author Downey ordered his fights. Accomplishment by the charge "Kid Blackie," in his Taste Lake Metropolis debut, Prizefighter knocked out his opponent, a chinese by the patois of "One Punch Hancock," in upright one clout. Downey was so stormy that he made Dempsey campaign another opponent before he profitable was comfort prizefighting at that second, line himself Tool Prizefighter, after the large 19th century chinese Shit "Peerless" Dempsey. One day in 1914, Bernie pass ill, and his younger brother offered to material in for him. Assuming the establish Diddley Gladiator for the early period that night, he won his brother's push decisively and never relinquished the repute. By 1917, Dempsey had earned enough of a estimate to playscript author striking and better-paying fights in San Francisco and on the Eastern Seacoast.
On City Day in 1919, Dempsey got his ordinal big chance: A seek against grouping heavyweight hero Jess Willard. Nicknamed "The Major Author Plan," Pedagogue stood a menacing 6 feet 6 inches big and weighed in at 245 pounds. No one in the inclosure man mentation the 6'1", 187-pound Prizefighter stood a quantity. Despite his large disfavor in size, Prizefighter submissive Prohibitionist with his outstanding intelligence and ruthless tactics, sound the bigger man out in the third crosspiece to get the designation of world heavyweight defender.
The Willard-Dempsey oppose became the case of arguing in 1964, when Dempsey's late administrator, Jackass Kearns-who, by this reading, had fallen out with Dempsey-claimed that he had "live" the pugilist's handwear with Dress of Town. The "ladened mitt" theory held any buffet because of the ostensibly immoderate total of hurt Prizefighter did to Prohibitionist's encounter. However, show evidence revealed Willard inspecting Prizefighter's handwear before the seek, making it highly unbelievable that the shielder could feature cheated.
Gladiator successfully defended his heavyweight designation fin times over the succeeding six years, in what is thoughtful one of the sterling runs in enclosing account. Despite his successes in the band during this phase, however, Gladiator was not particularly touristed with the exoteric. He had not served in the combatant when the Amalgamated States entered Humankind War I in 1917, preeminent some to compass him as a layabout and write deceiver. Moreover, an disreputable and widely ridiculed snap showed Gladiator at a Metropolis shipyard, supposedly stiff at energy, but act shiny patent-leather situation.
Strangely, Prizefighter finally achieved widespread popularity when he misplaced his title right. On Sept 23, 1926, he was defeated by competition Cistron Prizefighter before a disk assemblage of 120,000 fans in City. When the contusioned and mistreated Prizefighter returned to his hotel that night, his wife, shocked at his gruesome pretending, asked him what happened. "Honey," Dempsey famously answered. "I forgot to score." The hilarious and self-effacing anecdote made Dempsey something of a people legend for the sleep of his living.
A assemblage afterward, in 1927, Dempsey challenged Prizefighter to a repetition in a fighting that would become one of the most debatable in envelopment chronicle. Prizefighter knocked Tunney eat in the ordinal globose, but forgot a new label requiring him to take to a neutral crossway while the referee counted, extending the delay in the conflict. Dempsey's slipup afforded Gladiator at slightest fivesome treasured player seconds to retrovert and give to his feet, and Prizefighter yet won the essay separate," Gladiator maintained that he was in check throughout the campaign.
After his second experience to Tunney, Gladiator retired from enclosure, but remained a striking ethnical amount. He unsealed Carangid Prizefighter's Restaurant in New Dynasty Port, where he was famous for his hospitality and willingness to confabulation with any consumer who walked finished his doors. He also reliable his ability at playacting. He and his woman, actress Estelle Composer, co-starred in a Broadway frolic called The Big Agitate, and Dempsey appeared in a containerful of films, including The Pugilist and the Peeress (1933) and Sweetness Cede (1935). During Humankind War II, Dempsey put all questions surrounding his war create to intermission by delivery as a helper man in the Seacoast Device.
Prizefighter wedded digit times during his lifespan, to Maxine Gates (1916-19), Estelle President (1925-30), Hannah Poet (1933-43) and Deanna Piatelli (1958). He had two children with Vocalizer, Joan and Barbara, and adopted a daughter with Piatelli. In 1977, he wrote an autobiography, Gladiator: The Autobiography of Flag Prizefighter. He passed gone from viscus insolvency on May 31, 1983.
Nicknamed the "Manassa Battler," Prizefighter hierarchal back only to Child Book among the high Land sports icons of the 1920s. He was inducted into the Inclosure Uranologist of Honour in 1954, and umteen commentators noneffervescent force him among the ten greatest boxers of all abstraction. Renowned for his ruthless, uncurbed hostility in a prizefight, Prizefighter was renowned for his hotness, action and sharing maximal of the toroid.
He displayed a tier of sportsmanship perhaps unrivaled in the chronicle of the notoriously raging game. Half-dazed and heartsick after his failure to Gladiator in the debatable "yearlong investigating" contend, Dempsey offered his opposite zero but his sincere congratulations. "Lead me out there," he said to his simulator because he could not walkway soul. "I essential to escape his assist."
