Jack Dempsey vrs Tommy Gibbons-100th Anniversary (July 4th 1923)
Posted: 02 Aug 2023, 18:55
by Caractacus
Wednesday ,July 4th 1923-Shelby Montana
Where were you ?
Re: Jack Dempsey vrs Tommy Gibbons-100th Anniversary (July 4th 1923)
Posted: 02 Aug 2023, 19:29
by Ambling Alp II
Thanks for posting this!
Gibbons certainly looked like he had a lot of ability. However, he didn't do much nearly enough offensively.
I have always read that the crowd was so disappointing for this fight, only about 7000 in a big arena. Going by some of the camera views, it seemed like the crowd was much better than that.
Re: Jack Dempsey vrs Tommy Gibbons-100th Anniversary (July 4th 1923)
Posted: 03 Aug 2023, 11:23
by Caractacus
I wonder if there is now a historical marker where the ring was there in Shelby Montana?
( which was about a thousand miles away from any large urban city in 1923 )
Re: Jack Dempsey vrs Tommy Gibbons-100th Anniversary (July 4th 1923)
Posted: 03 Aug 2023, 12:16
by Caractacus
Re: Jack Dempsey vrs Tommy Gibbons-100th Anniversary (July 4th 1923)
Posted: 04 Aug 2023, 17:06
by pound per pound
Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑02 Aug 2023, 19:29
Thanks for posting this!
Gibbons certainly looked like he had a lot of ability. However, he didn't do much nearly enough offensively.
I have always read that the crowd was so disappointing for this fight, only about 7000 in a big arena. Going by some of the camera views, it seemed like the crowd was much better than that.
I must say the Dempsey does a good job of cutting or the ring or maybe that was the camera work. Either way he won the fight but Gibbons was unscathed,
Re: Jack Dempsey vrs Tommy Gibbons-100th Anniversary (July 4th 1923)
Posted: 05 Aug 2023, 19:27
by Ambling Alp II
I also thought Dempsey did pretty well at cutting off the ring. Just thought at some point that Gibbons would have gotten more aggressive. Still, pretty good effort for Dempsey considering he had not fought in two years. A couple of months later he fought Firpo.
