Mindful Memoirs: Jack Dempsey, the Manassa Mauler Who Made Boxing a Million-Dollar Sport
The Birth of a Fighting Legend Long before Jack Dempsey became boxing’s first million-dollar attraction, he was William Harrison Dempsey—born in 1895 in Manassa, Colorado, to a family of Irish and Cherokee descent. His early years were marked by grinding poverty that forged the ferocious competitor he would become. Raised among thirteen children during an…
