Jack Dempsey vs Georges Carpentier – “Fight of the Century” COLORIZED & HD – July 2, 1921

The original bw footage was improved and upscaled by Smooth Legends. He also improved the frame rate of this video!   Dempsey’s next defending fight was against French WW I hero Georges Carpentier, a fighter popular on both sides of the Atlantic. The bout was promoted by Tex Rickard and George Bernard Shaw, who claimed that Carpentier was “the greatest boxer in the world”. The Dempsey–Carpentier contest took place on July 2, 1921, at Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey. It generated the first million-dollar gate in boxing history; a crowd of 91,000 watched the fight. Though it was deemed “the Fight of the Century”, experts anticipated a one-sided win for Dempsey. Radio pioneer RCA arranged for live coverage of the match via KDKA, making the event the first national radio broadcast.  Carpentier wobbled Dempsey with a hard right in the second round. A reporter at ringside, however, counted 25 punches from Dempsey in a single 31-second exchange soon after he was supposedly injured by the right. Carpentier also broke his thumb in that round, which crippled his chances. Dempsey ended up winning the match in the fourth round.  

🎥 Credit Original B&W Footage:  Smooth Legends Jack Dempsey Vs Georges Carpentier Full HD 60 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ljGWtCl8h0