You’ll often see the 1920s referred to as the “golden age of sports.” There are a couple reasons for this, but a big part of it is the slate of huge stars that emerged in this decade. Baseball had ...

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 ...

It shouldn’t have ended the way it did. Not at that juncture of their careers. In July of 1927, aspiring heavyweight contender Jack Sharkey should have had his way with former champ Jack Dempsey. He ...

1927 — Gene Tunney wins a unanimous 10-round decision over Jack Dempsey at Soldier Field in Chicago to retain his world heavyweight title. The fight is marred by a long 10-count in the seventh round.

For every fight deemed by the viewing public as a potential mismatch, those involved will come up with any number of past upsets in pointing out that fights are fought in the ring and not on paper. In ...

Like all businessmen, prizefighters must move toward success up a stairway of “connections,” working up from one friend who can be useful to another who can be more useful. Inevitably this involves to ...