I would say Robinson fought during the absolute heyday of boxing.
..and who beat the P4P#1 of All-Time, Sugar Ray Robinson?
That's right, white dudes like Carmen Basilio, Gene Fullmer, Joey Maxim, Jake LaMotta.
Who whupped a prime Sugar Ray Leonard's butt?
Roberto Hands of Stone Duran.
Who whupped maywetaher's @$$ and got robbed, giving him such a scare that maywetaher began ducking every top guy for 9 years?
Jose Luis Castillo.
Boxing's not about race; it's about socio-economic position and who's born into the have-nots in life, and turn to fighting to try to get out of poverty.
In early 1900s, plenty of white Americans weren't much better off financially than black Americans.
In Dempsey's case black guys weren't allowed to fight so I would have to say no.
What? Dempsey's time was the 1920s (and the late teens).
Prior to World War II in the 1940s, Boxing was the most accessible sport for Black dudes.
Baseball, football, and golf didn't allow black guys until after WWII.
Also, Dempsey's parents both carried Native-American heritage.
Black guys still fought for Titles circa Dempsey's era, before his era too, just not for the Heavyweight Title.
There were black World Champions like George Dixon, Tiger Flowers, Joe Gans, the original Joe Walcott (Not Jersey Joe Walcott of the 1940s), and of course, Jack Johnson.
Panama Al Brown, Battling Siki, Kid Chocolate, John Henry Lewis.
Regarding Marciano, sure Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott, and Joe Louis were all older fighters, but with all that experience and superior technique and
natural advantages, you'd think at least one of them would have been able to stop the much cruder Rocky the way an old wise 42 year old Larry Holmes was able to shut
down a prime Ray Mercer for example.
Yet none of them could do the trick to the Rock despite multiple chances as Charles and Walcott both got.
The man could fight, Marciano is in fact a great fighter.
In 1950, Dempsey was voted as the Greatest fighter of the half-century.
The Associated Press conducted a poll of sportswriters to name the greatest fighter of all-time, pound-for-pound, and
they named Dempsey as the greatest fighter they had ever seen. Joe Louis came 2nd, Henry Armstrong came 3rd.
Look at the current Heavyweight scene for the past decade!!
Black guys are certainly allowed to challenge for the Heavyweight Title nowadays, but the Russians are too good for the Black Americans.
There's a single Black guy in the Heavyweight Top 10, and he's British, and his mother is white.
^ See what I did there.
Calzaghe whupping both Roy Jones and Hopkins and a prime Lacy; hell, he ruined Lacy.
Pavlik and Arthur Abraham destroying Hopkin's Middleweight Heir, Jermaine Taylor.
There's Bute, Kessler, Froch, Martinez, Maidana.
PACQUIAO, "Fighter of the Decade", is he black?
I don't want to turn this into a race thing, but I get tired of dudes who cop-out with race-baiting talking boxing without a leg to stand on.
It's like with some people how any argument or problem in their life is because they're black (or Native-American or whatever their race may be, always playing the race-card for everything.)
Thumbs down to racism.
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