Coming onto the scene, Jack Dempsey was unlike any other fighter that boxing fans had seen before. Prior to that, spectators were used to watching most fighters compete in a more reserved, “civilized” fashion, but “The Manassa Mauler’s” approach could be described as anything, BUT that. His downright nasty demeanor in the ring and take-no-prisoners philosophy, took the sport to places it had never been before and forever cemented his place in boxing history.
