Jack Dempsey vs. Fireman Jim Flynn (1st meeting)

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Jack Dempsey lost to Fireman Jim Flynn by KO at 0:25 in round 1 of 15

  • Date: 1917-02-13
  • Location: Trocadero Hall, Murray, Utah, USA
  • Referee: Frank Armstrong

Notes

  • The Ogden Standard reported on February 14, 1917: "The contest lasted twenty seconds and in that time Jack Dempsey never laid his glove on the 'Pueblo trial horse.' The men shook hands, Flynn put his head down and bored in. He got a left in Dempsey's face and had the local boy covering up and not knowing what to do. As Jack dropped his guard from his chin and peaked out, Jim put a right swing to the local boy's jaw, followed quickly with a right to the same spot, and Referee Ralph Armstrong counted ten. It was all over except hauling the 'local pride' to his corner."
  • The Ogden Examiner reported on February 14, 1917: "Following the defeat in one round of Jack Dempsey by Jim Flynn of Murray last night, and condemning the whole affair as the worst prizefight fiasco in the history of the state, a movement was on foot today to persuade the legislature, which is now in session, to bar all professional boxing matches."
  • The Oakland Tribune reported on March 16, 1917: "The one blotch on Dempsey’s list of performances is the fact that he was knocked out by Jim Flynn at Salt Lake. Dempsey explains this by saying that when they first came into the center of the ring for the first round, he put out both gloves to touch his opponent’s mitts as is customary, and Flynn took advantage of the move to whip a right haymaker to the jaw."
  • In his three autobiographies, Dempsey said he was down several times and his brother, who was working as his second, stopped the fight too quickly. Dempsey's account differs from the newspaper accounts.
  • Dempsey also claimed that he fought the fight with a badly injured right hand, which occurred when he dropped a bowling ball on it while working at a bowling alley.
  • Three Salt Lake City men who were at the fight told the Chicago Tribune in 1920 that Dempsey took a dive for $500.
  • Dempsey’s first wife, Maxine Cates, told anyone who would listen that Dempsey threw the fight. "They offered him more money to lose than to win and he took it," she said.
  • Dempsey always denied that he threw the fight.

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