Actually, Pickford and Douglas's attitudes towards this boxing match also represented the majority of people's views on the fight.
Females who don't know much about boxing were even more optimistic about George Caponti.
Male viewers, who had some understanding of boxing, were more in favor of Jack Dempsey... there were traitors within the male audience, in fact, a large portion of male viewers fancied George Caponti!
The reason for this was nothing more than the incredibly biased reporting on the match. Even though Jack Dempsey had already won against the heavyweight champion Jess Willard before this fight, which made him more famous than George Caponti,
in an era where not to mention the internet, even television did not exist, the common people's understanding of events was entirely from newspapers and broadcasts.
George Caponti received too much coverage, forcibly becoming the hot favorite to win this match!
