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DH and I were watching one of those Top 20 shows on ESPN about the "top 20 boxers of all time". They were talking abou Jack Dempsey, and DH threw this one out.
(He's been known to spread a few UL's in his time.)
When he was in his 70's, Dempsey would still visit his restaurant, Dempsey's, to gladhand with the patrons. Some punk came in, and attempted to fight the old boxer. (robbery?? just a jerk?? I don't know.) Anyhow, the senior man soundly beat down the whippersnapper, and knocked him out.
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Wiki has: "Legend says that one time, an elder Dempsey was mugged by a couple of teen thieves, whom he knocked out and held until the police arrived."
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Roger Kahn, who was a friend of Jack's, wrote in "A flame of pure fire', that Dempsey told him this:
one night after closing the restaurant he was attacked by two would-be muggers, both of which Jack knocked down to the sidewalk--and they stayed down until the police arrived.
Dempsey, who was in his 70's at the time, did not say they were 'knocked out.' Its always said that power is the last thing to go; and Kahn's personal experience 'fooling around' in the restaurant with Jack attested that speed and skills were still there.
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quote:Roger Kahn, who was a friend of Jack's, wrote in "A flame of pure fire", that Dempsey told him this:
As much as I like Roger Kahn, I have to say that some of the anecdotes he relates are questionable. I'm not sure whether that's due to faulty memory on his part, or from his accepting at face value stories he heard second-hand.
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