Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-02
Plenty of Fighting, and No Sailing Coming, Says
 Challenger
BY JACK DEMPSEY
Heavyweight Champion Challenger

HeavyWeight Champion Challenger
 I expect to stop Jess Willard inside of ten rounds tand take the worlds championship July f. Here are my reasons:
 I have been in steady training for many months and am on edge now Physically I am in the best of cOndi- ton. I expect to weigh about POO pounds when l step into the ring.
 am going to rely upon my punch ing ability. I expect to fight Wallard at close quarters using half-arm jolts. uppercuts and short hooks lnf1ght- ing is my strong point, and I will take advantage of it.
 I have trained myself to deliver a knockout blow that travels but few inches.
 Willard is lost when it comes to close work He showed this conclu- sively with his affair with Carl Nor ris when the latter opened himself repeatedly to attack with short jots, but Willard was utterly unable to take advantage of the fact.
 I expect to keep Willard very busy from the moment I get into the ring, working both hands, and using short, snappy hooks and uppercuts. I expect to get in close, stay there and do all the fighting that is to be done All that Willard has is long left Fight ing close in, he is helpless. know Willard is a big fellow, but he is really too big. He has little else than his bulk, but, as the saying goes, the bigger they are the harder they fall"
 Willard is strictly defensive fighter. His only object in every fight he has 1 fought, except his championship con test, has been to let the bout go to the limit and play it safe He let Moran-a second rater-stay the limit l in his 10 round fight in 1916- In his contests with Morris. McCarty and others the bout always went the limit 10 a no-decision contest.
 am quite confident that I can take ! Willard's measure His size means nothing Fulton is a big man, too, l but I beat him If I can knock over Fulton I can knock over Willard. There never was a man as big as either Willard or Fulton who is not a weakling-
 I beheve that aggression and fast action will win me the championship. I have demonstrated in every fight I ! have ever fought that I, I could put my man to sleep l did it and quickly. | In my fights with Fred Fulton, Carl : Morris, Porly Flynn and the rest of them it took me only one, two or three rounds to rock them to sleep. i Willard is not aggressive; he is slow and deliberate and always fights on the safe side. It is true I have not : seen him fight, but l have seen him ! box and 1 know what he can do. Without bOasting I will say that no man can go into the ring with me and stall I always get right into the fight ing from the tap of the bell and try 10 drop my man at the first OppOrtun- ity. That is why ] have always had ' difficulty in getting spsrring partners because the better they are the more likely l am to put them down and out 1 l expect to take no more than two months hard training to get ready for the big bout That is really more than l need in any case My theatrical contract with Barney Gerard requires me to box and do considerable eXer else on the stage As I am in first class physical shape now I will start again training for the battle around
 May l.
 It has been 5si1 that I am not g clever boxer, but you don't see an!