It shouldn’t have ended the way it did. Not at that juncture of their careers. In July of 1927, aspiring heavyweight contender Jack Sharkey should have had his way with former champ Jack Dempsey. He ...
“TAKE good care of yourself,” Jack Dempsey wired Sharkey before the Christner fight. He was think-ing of what Christ-ner had done to Handsome Knute Hansen just when the Garden matchmakers were trying ...