In the annals of boxing’s greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. They each had Irish backgrounds, were ring-savvy, had real punching ...
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Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, the Long Count, million-dollar gates, and how the 1920s transformed prizefighting into America's biggest sport.
A MAN in a big hat made of gray, woolly felt stood under a light-bulb in the angle of one of the runways leading to the mezzanine of the Yankee Stadium. I looked at him twice before I was sure it was.