Jack Dempsey the Nonpareil

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By F. Daniel Somrack

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Jack Dempsey The Nonpareil is the life and career of the first World Middleweight Boxing Champion of the modern era. Dempsey was champion in the 1880's during the transition period between bare-knuckle fighting under the London Prize Ring rules and the gloved era of the modern Marques of Queensberry rules.

Jack Dempsey was so dominate in the prize-ring that sports scribes bestowed upon him his famous sobriquet "Nonpareil," meaning unequalled. In a professional career that spanned from 1883-1895, Dempsey was only defeated three times in sixty-one bouts. His losses came at the end of his championship reign when he was suffering from tuberculosis; a disease that would claim his life at the age of thirty-two.

The Nonpareil was one of the most popular fighters in America at the time, second only to the great heavyweight champion, John L. Sullivan. Jack Dempsey The Nonpareil takes you back to a time when boxing made headline news and its champions were idolized by millions. Dempsey's storied career is highlighted and his most important bouts and championship contests are all included in this edition.

Jack Dempsey the Nonpareil