The Long Count Fight or the Battle of the Long Count was a professional boxing 10round rematch between world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney and former champion Jack Dempsey which Tunney won in a ...

Back at the hotel, after being sliced and battered for 10 rounds by Gene Tunney, he was asked by actress Estelle Taylor, the second of his four wives, "What happened?" "Honey," Dempsey said ...

The issue between Mara and Tunney was simple enough. Mara claimed 10% of Tunney’s pay for fighting Dempsey in 1926, and 25% of all his earnings thereafter. He had proof that Tunney offered him ...

Dempsey’s reign lasted four years before Gene Tunney took the title and it changed hands many times over the next two decades. Joe Louis is the boxer who has been the undisputed heavyweight ...

Five times they staged explosive demonstrations. "Yes, sir," Tunney said, "boxing needs men like Dempsey and Greb today. Dempsey could probably whip all of today's contenders on successive ...