Jack Dempsey vs. Homer Smith

Notes

This was Dempsey's first fight in the Midwest.
Dempsey was a 2 to 1 favorite to win the fight.
Sam Langford trained Smith for the fight and worked his corner.
In 1927, Smith said, "Soon after the fight started I got him on the chin so hard his hands dropped. But I was too slow about following it up. And the next thing I knew his left caught me on the chin and floored me."
The Racine Journal-News reported: "The two boys came out of their corners, both looking fit to knock the corners off a stone quarry. Smith poked a long one across that snapped Dempsey on the nose. Therein lies Homer's mistake for that little rap aroused the Irish in Dempsey and he swung a hard one that Smith tried to escape but didn't and the Benton Harper giant took a flop."
The referee stopped the fight after Smith was floored for the third time.
The Milwaukee Sentinel reported that the fight lasted one minute and 55 seconds.
Receipts for the fight totaled about $1,200.
In 1926, matchmaker Charlie Tiede said, "As I remember it, Dempsey and his manager received 35 percent of the proceeds, which netted them around $700."
In 1950, Dempsey said, "The night I knocked out Smith in Racine in my first fight in the Middle West, my end was only 20 bucks."