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One hundred years ago Friday, on July 2, 1921, Georges Carpentier left a makeshift boxing arena in Jersey City with a broken nose, a fractured thumb and a swollen eye thanks to Jack Dempsey, who ...

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The fight itself wasn’t much to remember. The powerful heavyweight Jack Dempsey, the best boxer in the world in 1921, easily beat the popular French challenger Georges Carpentier, knocking him flat in ...

At the Sporting Club of France, Georges Carpentier, “Gorgeous Orchid Man,” competed with William Harrison Dempsey. High was the goal, the battle stiff. First Dempsey, then Carpentier led; but at last ...