Gene Tunney held his world's heavyweight championship Friday by proved right of conquest over Jack Dempsey.

The Long Count: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney and the boxing controversy that defined an era It was the biggest boxing match the world had ever seen. It ended in one of the sport’s greatest ...

New play highlights improbable friendship between boxer Gene Tunney and Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw ‘Shaw vs. Tunney,’ by Doug Post, is making its world premiere at Theater Wit this week.

While Dempsey made his reputation as a ferocious brawler, Tunney was the thinking man’s fighter, preferring to focus on avoiding knockouts rather than delivering them.