Jack Dempsey vs Bill Brennan 2 || Highlights

Jack Dempsey 188 lbs beat Bill Brennan 197 lbs by KO at 1:57 in round 12 of 15 Date: 1920-12-14 Location: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, USA Referee: Johnny Haukop World Heavyweight Championship (2nd defense by Dempsey) According to the NY Evening World exactly 10,875 tickets were sold. The live gate was $145,935 and the four fights on the card cost Rickard $147,000. It was Rickard’s first losing promotion since New York had again legalized boxing. It was estimated that nearly 13,000 people were in attendance. Dempsey received $100,000 and Brennan got $35,000. Both also received a cut of the moving pictures. The Canadian Press Service reported: “The champion proved to be Brennan’s master in nearly every stage of the bout.“ Some claimed that Dempsey knocked out Brennan with a rabbit punch. The July 1964 issue of Boxing Illustrated had an article about the Dempsey-Brennan fight titled “Dempsey’s Toughest Fight: It wasn’t with Firpo—it was with Bill Brennan.“