OT Great Book on Boxing - Tunney

revmoran

Just finished a great book by Jack Cavanaugh - Tunney, Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the Great Jack Dempsey. Besides introducing a whole host of boxers who have interesting stories on their own, the book also showed the place boxing had to the sports fans between WW I and WW II. Dempsey and Tunney made far more money than any other sports champions of their days - when Babe Ruth was making $50,000 a year, Dempsey won $500,000 for a single fight. If you like sports history, this is a good read.

VitoCo1972

I love books like that. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out. It wasn't just WWI through WWII. If you go back and read newspapers into the early to mid 70's there were three major sports - Baseball, Boxing and Horse Racing. Only when the AFL/NFL merged did football make a real dent in those three. The NBA didn't become popular until the Lakers/Celtics 80's and the NHL was never a nationwide sport.

I am one of the few boxing fans that I know of anymore. It's too bad that Americans are so tied to the Heavyweight division. There are great fighters at 130, 135, 142, 147 etc.

halosfan

Boxing is awesome. The heavyweight division has always been boring for me.

I wish they would go back to the 15 round fights

richtree

anyone see Juan Diaz get beat in Houston by Paulie Brooklyn and then the Judges gave it to diaz because he is from Houston.

I am huge boxing fan but that was BS....

all 3 of the judges should be brought in front of a board and thrown out.

-rt

halosfan

I am not a Paulie fan but he got jobbed -- especially from the one judge who apparently was watching something else.

richtree

yeah, i agree I am not a Paulie Mal fan either , but he won ., and Diaz was awful

revmoran

There's no Tunney on this old program, but an interesting mix of olympians, boxers, and baseball players with one football guy and war hero - Joe Foss - Medal of Honor