The Most Vicious Heavyweight In History - Jack Dempsey — Transcript

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1. 0:00Jack Dempsey is the angry hobo who could
2. 0:04in the case we have here Jack Dempsey is
3. 0:06a very very vicious man and as you see
4. 0:09fight like someone having eat me for 5
5. 0:12days oh man I'm crazy objective because
6. 0:15of This ferocious intensity there's no
7. 0:17one like him as a teen Jack without sin
8. 0:21leaves his large Mormon family with a
9. 0:23small inheritance to chase a dream of
10. 0:26becoming a champion before long what
11. 0:30little he had was Gone with a rumble in
12. 0:33his stomach and no place to go Jack
13. 0:36chased migrant work as much as his dream
14. 0:40he once said you could have hit me in
15. 0:42the chin with a hammer for
16. 0:44$5 if you haven't eaten in days you
17. 0:48understand it didn't matter if it was a
18. 0:51mining camp a bar or a box car Jack
19. 0:55Dempsey fought anytime anywhere often
20. 0:58for just enough to eat
21. 1:00just enough to keep a dream afloat
22. 1:03between Jobs when he got to the next
23. 1:05town he looked for a place that had a
24. 1:07club sight going on and he would fight
25. 1:10get his money and then be able to get a
26. 1:12room for the night and food and then go
27. 1:14on to the next Jack dimsey was a
28. 1:17desperate man and a desperate man is a
29. 1:20dangerous thing when his stomach wasn't
30. 1:23growling Jack grew into a different
31. 1:26animal 6'1 in 190 pounds of simmering
32. 1:31rage each fight he made a little more
33. 1:34money and got a little closer to his
34. 1:38goal until Jack makes his first
35. 1:41legendary appearance on film in his
36. 1:44title shot against the poat Tomi giant
37. 1:48Jess Willard Jess was 6'6 in and weighed
38. 1:52245 lbs he won the heavyweight title off
39. 1:56an aging politically exiled Jack Johnson
40. 2:00in Havana Cuba temperature at ringside
41. 2:04103° and
42. 2:08Rising this is the first time film was
43. 2:11taken from first row ringside it took a
44. 2:14mere 26 rounds of a fight scheduled to
45. 2:17go
46. 2:2245s Jess was a huge strong powerful man
47. 2:26with near infinite stamina took up
48. 2:29boxing in his late 20s to make some
49. 2:32money and found it easy given his
50. 2:34massive
51. 2:35Dimensions the day was July 4th 1919
52. 2:4119,500 people gathered under a brutal
53. 2:43Toledo Sun all of those people owned the
54. 2:47same hats all of those people were about
55. 2:50to watch Boxing change in front of their
56. 2:53eyes the big fight begins and big death
57. 2:56moves easily into action the simple fact
58. 2:59is just Ward was a head taller and had
59. 3:0210 in of reach but strength and stamina
60. 3:06tell over
61. 3:07time Jack Dempsey decided he had to get
62. 3:10the giant gone quickly within a minute
63. 3:13of his first appearance on film he
64. 3:16creates his signature move the Dempsey
65. 3:19double shift every punch Jack threw was
66. 3:22thrown for power left whipped in
67. 3:25tirelessly off the blow Miss graer empy
68. 3:28hasn't the range yet
69. 3:30by dropping his weight and stepping in
70. 3:33with each foot as he punched he keeps
71. 3:36Ward on defense as he closes the Gap
72. 3:39what else can he do against the
73. 3:40endlessly moving little man but as he
74. 3:43will it's far beyond big J for all
75. 3:46theing for all the blows crossing the
76. 3:49beach Minefield and getting close enough
77. 3:51to drop Jess for the first
78. 3:54time the remains of the round is the
79. 3:57filthiest beating in boxing
80. 4:00Jess Ward looked like a baby deer
81. 4:03learning to walk in a ring with a
82. 4:06wolverine made all the worse by the fact
83. 4:09that Jack was under no obligation to
84. 4:11move to a neutral Corner after a
85. 4:14knockdown so Jack dimsey stood there
86. 4:17daring the big men to rise as he stepped
87. 4:20around the referee to get to Willard's
88. 4:22back any predator knows the best place
89. 4:25to attack is from
90. 4:28behind the inant receiver off bo back at
91. 4:30him again his wide open he has
92. 4:33absolutely no
93. 4:38[Music]
94. 4:40defense it was round in the genre of
95. 4:43horror Jess Willard was knocked down
96. 4:46seven times and because he was a
97. 4:48champion he got up
98. 4:52eight Corner Larry take it again the man
99. 4:57stand
100. 4:58larrys feeling for the RO trying to hold
101. 5:01himself up right smashes into his side
102. 5:03other right back to the head and word
103. 5:05collapses into a sitting position St the
104. 5:08crowd was in a frenzy drowning out the
105. 5:10Bell to end the round dimsey thought the
106. 5:14fight was stopped and left the Ring The
107. 5:17Ref and Corner had to hurry him back in
108. 5:20Willard was able to stay upright for
109. 5:22another horror show with an increasingly
110. 5:25unrecognizable Jess Willard playing
111. 5:27victim keep that tiger away from you
112. 5:29with all his weary broken body just as
113. 5:32his F to keep going why if no use he
114. 5:34hasn't a chance he has to fight even
115. 5:37when he has nothing left to fight with
116. 5:39he can't get away from that tiger who's
117. 5:41talking his arms and legs are heavy with
118. 5:43exhaustion Sal burns the gas to get his
119. 5:46KO before the Bell Rings he'll have to
120. 5:48do it in a hurry but Willard's only
121. 5:50thought is protect himself weak and TI
122. 5:53as he is no to get him for his Champions
123. 5:57heart called him out for a third round
124. 6:02[Music]
125. 6:04Willard's face became a mask of blood
126. 6:07and Bruise that began leaking down his
127. 6:09leg a new Champion being born here born
128. 6:13in the heat among the Y of 70,000
129. 6:15Spectators have gone down but for the
130. 6:17Heart of a Lion and the endurance of a
131. 6:19buffalo he gets more of it why doesn't
132. 6:22the referee stop it why but H pord comes
133. 6:24from the old school there's only one way
134. 6:26for a champion to finish this a and
135. 6:28that's on his back
136. 6:30and the impossible has happened again
137. 6:33big Jes Mur another murderous round was
138. 6:40imporing Jess understandably couldn't
139. 6:43come out for the fourth he was beaten
140. 6:47physically emotionally and spiritually
141. 6:50he got up to congratulate the man who
142. 6:52tried to slaughter him as the adrenaline
143. 6:55of the mauling wears off Jess Willard is
144. 6:58left alone in a crowd of
145. 7:0019,000 the biggest man of them all felt
146. 7:04small as a field mouse he sat and
147. 7:07re-evaluated his entire life big Jess
148. 7:10Willard began to cry through a mixture
149. 7:13of Blood and Tears Jess Willard was
150. 7:16repeatedly choking out the words that
151. 7:19this would be his retirement I have
152. 7:22$100,000 and a farm in Kansas Jess
153. 7:25Willard went back to that farm in Kansas
154. 7:28and mostly stayed
155. 7:32there Jack Dempsey took boxing from
156. 7:35barely legal to the biggest sport in the
157. 7:38US Jack drew the first million dooll
158. 7:41gate in boxing against George
159. 7:44koner the best boxer in French history
160. 7:48was also a fighter pilot of some Renown
161. 7:51in over 110 fights he had nearly 90
162. 7:55victories and was reigning light
163. 7:57heavyweight champion but he was simply
164. 8:00not a heavyweights the first million
165. 8:03doll gate in boxing history at Bo's 30
166. 8:06Acres Jersey City New Jersey July 2nd
167. 8:191921 production camps and saloons that
168. 8:22he first gained the opportunity to
169. 8:23display his prowess with his
170. 8:27fist he was rated as is just a rough
171. 8:30tough
172. 8:31kid but here he is the champion of the
173. 8:37world Pena's face is pretty well
174. 8:39battered now dimsey blew him away in
175. 8:43four rounds it was the first fight ever
176. 8:46broadcast over the radio and the first
177. 8:49title fight sanctioned by a major
178. 8:51commission that Still Remains today nine
179. 8:55he's up just in time and Dempsey goes
180. 8:58after him and down and Jack Dempsey
181. 9:01remains heavyweight champion of the
182. 9:05world the next year Jack got in the ring
183. 9:09with another giant Luis Angel furo was a
184. 9:13big man and big puncher nicknamed The
185. 9:16Wild Bull of the
186. 9:20pampus doesn't wait to start swinging
187. 9:22he's in there to make a
188. 9:24chart furo looked tailor made for
189. 9:27Dempsey to put his favorite game plan to
190. 9:35work speed too much for
191. 9:39him again Dempsey got in his Mator
192. 9:43mindset even if he had made it look easy
193. 9:46but it's easy to forget that giant
194. 9:48slaying is dangerous
195. 9:54work but he down
196. 9:59like a wild P raed by it's arguably the
197. 10:03wildest round in boxing
198. 10:06[Music]
199. 10:18history when Jack Dempsey is driven
200. 10:20through the ropes by furo Jack claws his
201. 10:23way back through the ropes and the war
202. 10:26is back on
203. 10:35[Music]
204. 10:51it was Reckless violence and it was
205. 10:55incredible taking any chances onp Wild
206. 10:58Wing Jack comes out in the second and
207. 11:01butchers the Wild
208. 11:12[Applause]
209. 11:16Bull purple down again the ninth time
210. 11:20these two men fought almost like wild
211. 11:21animals in one of the most amazing
212. 11:24fights that man has ever
213. 11:26seen Jack would finally meet his match
214. 11:29and the fighting Marine Jean tunny
215. 11:32nearly
216. 11:33130,000 people a record which stood for
217. 11:36nearly 67
218. 11:43years 130,000 fans here tonight the
219. 11:47largest gate in the history of American
220. 11:51Sports what Jack had in ferocity Jean
221. 11:54tunny had ingame planning
222. 12:01while he doesn't have Dempsey's power je
223. 12:03can hurt your
224. 12:04plan the best way to beat Jack Dempsey
225. 12:07was simply to not exchange with
226. 12:12him Jean jabbed and moved clinched and
227. 12:20peppered he certainly outboxed Dempsey
228. 12:24because he understood there was no
229. 12:26outfighting him
230. 12:30sometimes the only winning move is not
231. 12:33to
232. 12:55play in an unusually short 10 round
233. 12:58fight Jean sley decision
234. 13:04Dempsey no hard feelings on Dempsey's
235. 13:06part he congratulates Dean PNY the new
236. 13:10heavyweight champion of the
237. 13:12world a rematch was held in Soldier
238. 13:15Field in
239. 13:16Chicago another 100,000 strong showed up
240. 13:20to see a man who was still very much the
241. 13:23same angry hobo he was a decade earlier
242. 13:32over a 100,000 fans here in solders
243. 13:35field tonight he fought the same
244. 13:37insistent weaving style but tunny had
245. 13:40him figured
246. 13:42out a puncher like Jack is always
247. 13:45dangerous but the game had changed
248. 13:48around him when he leveled Jean with a
249. 13:50combo he hovered over him like he did
250. 13:53with every other
251. 13:56opponent only before the fights was rule
252. 13:59made about going to a neutral Corner
253. 14:02Jack did what he always did which gave
254. 14:04Jean precious seconds to recover
255. 14:07supposedly Jean was on the ground for a
256. 14:10count of 14 seconds but
257. 14:13Rose is
258. 14:18up time to stay away from dempy time to
259. 14:21last out the round
260. 14:35Jean would go on to get the decision
261. 14:37Jack laid down his gloves after a fight
262. 14:40forever known as The Long Count
263. 14:44fight when Jack Dempsey retired he was
264. 14:48one of the most famous men in the
265. 14:50country he was secure enough to turn
266. 14:52down a Trilogy with tunny and the payday
267. 14:55that might have come with it Jack didn't
268. 14:58languish in in his retirement Jack
269. 15:00Dempsey wrote the single most
270. 15:02influential book of boxing technique of
271. 15:05the modern era he didn't even get out of
272. 15:07shape he didn't even stop getting into
273. 15:10fights there's a video of him in his
274. 15:13mid-40s mauling a pro wrestler who
275. 15:16decided to call him out even when him
276. 15:19and Jess Willard met for a friendly
277. 15:21media piece Jack just couldn't help but
278. 15:24throw PTSD triggering punches their
279. 15:27stories of him deep into his 7s laying
280. 15:30out a pair of New York muggers boxing is
281. 15:33an expression of the beast in us even as
282. 15:37an old man the Beast never left Jack
283. 15:41Dempsey