Jack Kearns

Jack "Doc" Kearns ( born August 17, 1882 in Waterloo, Michigan, † June 17, 1963 ) was a boxing manager, especially of Jack Dempsey. The Ring Magazine called him "the greatest boxing of all time".

Kearns grew up in Washington State. Even at 16, he moved to Alaska to the Yukon Gold Rush to try his luck, he worked in saloons. Later he worked on a farm and as a tractor for Chinese immigrants.

He began then to the light and welterweight as "Young Kid Kearns ' to box and later claimed to have denied sixty battles. Kearns ran a bar and a boxing club in Spokane, but oriented more and more towards San Francisco, then the world capital of boxing. He then began to manage boxers and promote, for example, Harry Wills.

Dempsey - time 1917-1923

In 1917 he met the young Dempsey. Kearns led Dempsey to the spectacular title win in 1919 against Jess Willard.

He was a master of publicity and generated the first million taking the boxing history of the fight against Georges Carpentier. Kearns ' genius was to thank for that Dempsey $ 300,000 was awarded for a fight against the smaller Tommy Gibbons in Shelby, Montana. But a fight against his former protege Will he knew to avoid.

There were tensions with promoter Tex Rickard. Dempsey left him after his fight against Luis Firpo in 1923. Dempsey and his new wife, actress Estelle Taylor, felt cheated by Kearns. This led to bitter processes.

After Dempsey

Until his death he remained manager, among other things, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore and Mickey Walker. He worked for five years as a matchmaker for the International Boxing Club, in the postwar period, the instrument of Cosa Nostra for control of boxing.

Before Kefauverkomitee, a Senate committee of inquiry into the mafia 's involvement in boxing, but he could not speak out to have nothing to do with manipulation.

Kearns, it was he who organized the first boxing match in Las Vegas, 1955 between Archie Moore and Nino Valdes.

1990 Kearns was induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.