AP PhotoOne year later, Dempsey and Tunney would meet again in yet another fight for the ages.September 23, 1926: There have been many smart fighters, but Gene Tunney was one of the most ...

Tunney, he wrote, “is belittled to this day, particularly by fans who never saw him, simply because he whipped Jack Dempsey.” Tunney retired with an official record of 80-1-3, with one no contest.

CHICAGO -- Gene Tunney held his world's heavyweight championship Friday by proved right of conquest, but his second battle with Jack Dempsey Thursday night, like most important fights of recent ...

Tunney: Boxing’s Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey By Jack Cavanaugh Random House, 471 pages, $27.95 Jack Cavanaugh’s “Tunney” begins with the perfect anecdote.

To suggest that Gene Tunney was an exceptional man is to understate the case. In 1926, he won the heavyweight championship by outboxing Jack Dempsey.

For years, you say Dempsey and you have to say Tunney - DempseyTunney, one word. Those two names have been woven together since 1926, when Gene Tunney whipped the great Jack Dempsey to become the ...

'Long Count': Jack Dempsey knocks down Gene Tunney in the seventh round. But Dempsey takes several seconds to get to a neutral corner. Tunney gets up at nine - though he is down for about 14 ...

CHAMP AND CHALLENGER A Jack Dempsey Story, 1927 By JAY MAEDER THE PRIDE OF Greenwich Village didn't even like the fight game very much. He was good at it, that's all; good enough, he recognized ...

Chicago has had its share of breathlessly hyped boxing matches, but none was bigger than the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight title bout on Sept. 22, 1927. And certainly none was more controver… ...

He was best-known for snatching the title in 1926 from the punching powerhouse that was "Manassa Mauler" Jack Dempsey, ... Gene Tunney's Gloves Enter the Ring. September 1, 2011. How Arthur Ashe ...

Decades before Gene Tunney defeated reigning champion Jack Dempsey for the world heavyweight boxing title in 1926, George Bernard Shaw had written a novel with a strikingly similar main character ...