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Originally Posted by pilight
Dempsey is hard to rate properly based on just match data. He spent most of his time as champ not fighting at all, and when he did he carefully avoided the best opponents. He won the title by beating Jess Willard, arguably the worst HW champ of the 20th century, when Willard was 37 years old and hadn't fought in three years. Half of his title defenses were against puffed up LHWs. Watching him on film he looks like an all time great, but rating him on any kind of objective scale based on his results is going to make him come up short.
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But he has Primo Carnera on the list ... end of story