In the annals of boxing’s greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene ...

It's one of boxing's most endearing legends. Jack Dempsey went to bed on the night of July 4, 1919, after knocking out Jess Willard to claim the heavyweight championship of the world and dreamed about ...

You’ll often see the 1920s referred to as the “golden age of sports.” There are a couple reasons for this, but a big part of it is the slate of huge stars that emerged in this decade. Baseball had ...

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, ...