“Carpentier is out … Jack Dempsey is still the heavyweight champion of the world. ”It was Saturday 2 July 1921, a boiling summer afternoon in a field on the outskirts of Jersey City, and a raucous crowd of more than 80,000 had just witnessed what had been billed as the fight of the century.
The stylish French challenger Georges Carpentier, the world light-heavyweight champion, lay in the middle of the ring, a broken, twitching heap after being battered for nearly four rounds by one of the most ferocious fighters who lived.
The crowd was the largest, the purses paid to the fighters the fattest and the gate receipts topped $1. 5m – the first time a sporting gate had hit seven figures.
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