Just finished Dempsey: by the Man Himself. I love old timers and hearing about old times and this is a great read. Tough as nails as you'd expect, all of the old time boxers must have been real characters.

One example. Jack Dempsey figured he started "training" to be heavyweight champion when he was 11 years old. He was basically a vagrant for most of his youth, and starting around the age 16 one of the ways he'd feed himself was to walk into a bar, penniless, 16 years old and scrawny (weighing 130lbs) and declare in his girlish high-pitched voice "I can lick any man in this joint... for a buck." And he'd usually get action, by grown men, and he'd win most the time. That'd be enough for a square meal and he viewed it as training. He loved to fight.

It's a fun read.

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