I read something very similar about Dempsey back in the early '90s in Ring ****zine.
This highly touted amatuer fought an exibition against Dempsey (a four rounder I think) sometime in the early 1920s and went the distance. Later in life people would tell him that they thought he could have taken Dempsey if they had fought with the title on the line. This is what he would tell them.
During the first round the amatuer boxed Demspey and did a fairly decent job. Coming out for the second he was feeling his oats and decided go for it. He nailed Dempsey with his "Sunday" punch and Jack just looked at him. All of a sudden "****" and everything went black. Instead of feeling himself falling he felt two arms holding him upright and a Dempsey's voice came into his ear saying: "Kid, these people came here to see a nice exibition. We don't want to spoil things for them by doing something silly now do we?"
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