Sorry about that, he seems to be linking incorrectly back to Stickgrappler's page, where the transcript was originally.
If you change the link and put the chapter numbers after like
http://www.lousy.org/budo/local/dempsey/dempsey3.html
thru
http://www.lousy.org/budo/local/dempsey/dempsey19.html
that should work.
Victor, I agree with regards to what is best and what you need when what is best ain't available. That's why JD recommends the 3 "layers".
James is right about evasion in WC, esp. with the pak sao. One potential problem her against a boxer is if you try to go to the outside of a jab with a lazy pak sao, esp. one that drops down after contact, that gives him an almost perfect setup for the lead hook off the jab. Not saying it can't be done, only that it has to be done properly.
csk: I agree with you, but I read a fairly long article by Keith Kernspecht once that advocated that responding to the other guy's attack was in fact a superior strategy. I guess there's a fair bit of syntactic hair splitting we could go into as to what constitutes a "direct attack".
BTW, I'm not advocating JD's work as superior to, or a replacement for, WC techniques and strategy. IMO it provides interesting parallels and a different viewpoint for looking at what we do in a broader sense.