Jack Dempsey - documentary on boxing career and life - 4/5

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the odium clung to him until the night Gene Tunney punched him almost blind and took his title. ''Lead me out there,'' Jack told his trainer after that bout. ''I want to shake his hand.'' 'Honey, I Forgot to Duck' Back in their hotel, Estelle Taylor Dempsey was appalled by her husband's battered face. ''Ginsberg!'' she cried, using her pet name for him. ''What happened?'' ''Honey,'' the former champion said, ''I forgot to duck.'' From that day on, the gallant loser was a folk hero whose ...