Editing Jack Dempsey (section)

===Time off from boxing===
[[File:Jack Dempsey carrying his wife.jpg|thumb|170px|right|Jack Dempsey holding his wife, Estelle Taylor, on his shoulder]]
Dempsey did not defend his title for three years following the Firpo fight. There was pressure from the public and the media for Dempsey to defend his title against [[African American|Black]] contender [[Harry Wills]]. Disagreement exists among boxing historians as to whether Dempsey avoided Wills, though Dempsey claimed he was willing to fight him. When he originally won the title, however, he had said he would no longer fight Black boxers.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/07/06/96327153.pdf|title=Jack Dempsey, new heavyweight champion, announces he will draw the color line |date= July 5, 1919|work=The New York Times}}</ref>

Instead of continuing to defend his title, Dempsey earned money with boxing exhibitions, product endorsements, and by appearing in films, such as the adventure [[film serial]] ''[[Daredevil Jack]]''. Dempsey also did a lot of traveling, spending, and partying. During this time away from competitive fighting, Dempsey married actress [[Estelle Taylor]] in 1925 and fired his long-time trainer/manager Jack "Doc" Kearns. Kearns repeatedly sued Dempsey for large sums of money following his firing.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19271116&id=mqZQAAAAIBAJ&pg=2594,4654506 |newspaper=[[The Milwaukee Journal]] |title=Pick jury for trial of Kearns vs. Dempsey |page=17 |location=Princeton, New Jersey |date=November 16, 1927 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In April 1924, Dempsey was appointed to an executive position in the [[Irish Worker League]] (IWL). The IWL was a [[USSR|Soviet]]-backed [[Communist]] group founded in [[Dublin]] by Irish labour leader [[Jim Larkin]].<ref>{{cite book |first1=Emmet |last1=O'Connor |title=Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals, 1919–1943 |location=Dublin, Ireland |publisher=[[University College Dublin]] |year=2004|isbn=1-904558-20-8}}</ref>