The fight itself wasn’t much to remember. The powerful heavyweight Jack Dempsey, the best boxer in the world in 1921, easily beat the popular French challenger Georges Carpentier, knocking him flat in ...

With heavyweight champ Jack Dempsey performing his vaudeville act in Spokane, talk had circulated that the hotly anticipated Dempsey-Carpentier fight might be held at the Alan Race Track, just east of ...

More than 2,500 boxing fans jammed Monroe Street to hear the blow-by-blow accounts of the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier heavyweight championship fight, courtesy of the Spokane Daily Chronicle. A ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today’s archive page is from June 20, 1921. The Staten Island Advance will publish a Fight Extra that will offer the first report of the results of Dempsey-Carpentier ...

In Jersey City, on July 2, 1921, U. S. sport fans witnessed a milestone in prizefight annals: the first million-dollar gate. Last week, on the 19th anniversary of that historic Dempsey-Carpentier ...

One hundred years ago this past July 2, big-time sports was born. Tex Rickard, shrewd and shady, a “sport” as Damon Runyon called him, promoted boxing’s first “Million Dollar Gate,” a match between ...

At the Sporting Club of France, Georges Carpentier, “Gorgeous Orchid Man,” competed with William Harrison Dempsey. High was the goal, the battle stiff. First Dempsey, then Carpentier led; but at last ...