H&G All-Time Index public fighter card
Jack Dempsey
Heavyweight · United States
Jack Dempsey ranks #33 in the H&G All-Time Index at Heavyweight, with a 90.92 All-Time Index score and a 53-6-8 professional record. His best wins on record include Tommy Gibbons, Billy Miske and Jack Sharkey. His career span on this page is 1914-1927.
- All-time rank
- #33Elite Greats
- H&G All-Time Index
- 90.920-100 ranking index. This is the number that orders the list.
- Career record
- 53-6-8Professional wins, losses and draws.
- Active years
- 1914-1927
- Data Confidence
- HighDeep career evidence and a tighter peak-rating band in this release. Close ranks still need boxing judgement.
Career story
How Jack Dempsey's rating rose and fell year by year, with his peak marked.
Yearly peak-form Elo rating points. This curve is separate from the 0-100 ranking index.
Signature wins
- Tommy Gibbons - 1923 - signature win
- Billy Miske - 1920 - signature win
- Jack Sharkey - 1927 - signature win
- Fred Fulton - 1918 - signature win
- Battling Levinsky - 1918 - signature win
Show the year-by-year numbers
| Year | Peak-form Elo rating |
|---|---|
| 1915 | 1,618 |
| 1916 | 1,672 |
| 1917 | 1,765 |
| 1918 | 1,839 |
| 1919 | 1,858 |
| 1920 | 1,901 |
| 1921 | 1,910 |
| 1923 | 1,938 |
| 1926 | 1,916 |
| 1927 | 1,915 |
Why this ranking
Jack Dempsey ranks #33 with a 90.92 score on the 60-100 H&G All-Time Index. His standout win in our data is over Tommy Gibbons in 1923, who reached a 1,974 Peak-form Elo, one of the stronger opponents on his record. In one case a result was later reversed: he beat Willie Meehan once, then lost to him in a later fight. Our fight-by-fight records do not add up to his full public win-loss-draw total, so the head-to-head details here are a partial picture. The expert prior (a small, fixed nudge from a published all-time list, mainly for early fighters with thin records) lifts this score slightly.
What lifts or lowers this ranking
Bars show each weighted signal's relative size. Gold lifts the placement; grey holds it back.
A narrow signal for lineal, explicit undisputed or major multi-belt class control in this release data; it is not a full title history.
How much repeat elite-year presence supports the all-time case.
How much the record is helped by wins over contemporaneous title-level opponents.
Same-era separation left after the shared peak and sustained rating signal is removed.
Collapsed signal from peak rating, sustained rating and same-era separation.
How much major title evidence supports the rating.
Compare and explore
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Top fights
The highest-ranked fighters Jack Dempsey actually faced, biggest names first. Each one opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Gene Tunney#44 · Index 89 · 1926, 1927
- Tommy Gibbons#94 · Index 84 · 1923
- Billy Miske#229 · Index 79 · 1918, 1920
- Jack Sharkey#408 · Index 76 · 1927
- Georges Carpentier#507 · Index 75 · 1921
- Battling Levinsky#521 · Index 75 · 1918
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- Fred Fulton#772 · Index 73 · 1918
Ranked-vs-ranked bouts from the pinned fight archive, ordered by opponent ranking. An objective record of who they shared a ring with.
Great rivals he never fought
Ranked fighters who shared a recognised division and whose competitive careers overlapped, with no bout between them on record. Each name opens the head-to-head tool with the pair filled in.
- Mickey Walker#20 · Light Heavyweight · 5 overlapping years (1923-1927)
- Harry Greb#29 · Light Heavyweight · 6 overlapping years (1921-1926)
- Jack Johnson#57 · Cruiserweight / Heavyweight · 14 overlapping years (1914-1927)
- Ted Kid Lewis#91 · Light Heavyweight · 11 overlapping years (1917-1927)
- Jack Dillon#101 · Light Heavyweight / Cruiserweight / Heavyweight · 9 overlapping years (1915-1923)
- Harry Wills#120 · Heavyweight · 14 overlapping years (1914-1927)
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- Sam Langford#146 · Heavyweight · 8 overlapping years (1919-1926)
- Joe Jennette#173 · Heavyweight · 6 overlapping years (1914-1919)
- Tiger Flowers#192 · Light Heavyweight · 5 overlapping years (1923-1927)
- Jimmy Slattery#262 · Light Heavyweight · 5 overlapping years (1923-1927)
- Jack Delaney#278 · Light Heavyweight / Cruiserweight · 9 overlapping years (1919-1927)
- Pete Latzo#585 · Light Heavyweight / Cruiserweight · 6 overlapping years (1922-1927)
Shared recognised division, overlapping competitive years, no recorded bout between them. A measured pattern only.
Linked style profile
8-axis style breakdown
Jack Dempsey also has a reviewed style profile with radar scores, study notes and diagnostic comparisons.
About this rating
Rankings: H&G All-Time Index v2.0.0. Reflects fights up to , the most recent on record. The ratings are fixed to that point, so fights after it are not yet included.
The rating itself is built from the 59 bouts we hold full data for from 1914 to 1927, which is why this count differs from the professional record above.
For the data-minded
Peak-form Elo rating: 1,938 (peak dated 1923-07-04). This best-point rating sits on its own scale and is not directly comparable with the 0-100 index.
The peak estimate carries an uncertainty band of about ±246 Elo, so read close comparisons with care.