That deal: if Rozicki wins the world title, he’ll visit Jack Dempsey’s grave site in Southampton Cemetery in Tuckahoe, New York, and leave his belt at his hero’s side. 0. comments.

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 ...

Miriam Burns shared headlines with baseball slugger Babe Ruth, also with heavyweight boxer Jack Dempsey, but she was buried years later in an unmarked grave in Kansas City. Reporter Greg Echlin ...

Jack Dempsey was early 20s and going places. Nobody could foretell that the place he was going to, eventually, was Glasgow. ... I'll take it with me to the grave, ...

Before fighting Jack Sharkey on the comeback trail in 1927, Dempsey trained in the hills outside Ojai, Calif. He chopped trees, carried rocks, and did calisthenics to drop more than 20 pounds.

Dempsey successfully sued to keep that claim out of the book, but seemed to almost marvel at this twist of the knife from beyond the grave. “Jack Kearns had managed to give me one more good ...

The July 4, 1923, heavyweight title fight between Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons in Shelby, Montana, stands out as one of the most economically disastrous events in boxing history.