However, heavyweight greats Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis and Jack Dempsey are among the top ten. Ali, a three-time world ...

Baseball had Babe Ruth. Football had “Red” Grange. Golf had Bobby Jones. And boxing? Well, obviously it had Jack Dempsey, “The Manassa Mauler,” whose heavyweight title run lifted the sport to new ...

The 1920s were the Golden Age of Sports. In boxing, nobody was more golden -- though not immediately -- than Jack Dempsey. Like Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Bill Tilden and Bobby Jones, Dempsey was the ...

Jack Sharkey, a Lithuanian-born boxer named Joseph Paul Zukauskas, took his ring name from combining his two favourite pugilists, Jack Dempsey and Tom Sharkey. The name helped him gain acceptance ...

Football had “Red” Grange. Golf had Bobby Jones. And boxing? Well, obviously it had Jack Dempsey, “The Manassa Mauler,” whose heavyweight title run lifted the sport to new heights at the ...