The 1920s were the Golden Age of Sports. In boxing, nobody was more golden -- though not immediately -- than Jack Dempsey. Like Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Bill Tilden and Bobby Jones, Dempsey was the ...

Over the years, Buffalo was the location of many title fights. In 1918, the great Jack Dempsey defended his heavyweight title against Gunboat Smith in the Broadway Auditorium. In 1984 Ray “Boom ...

National Portrait Gallery, SI Tunney's boxing gloves from the famous 1927 "long count" fight with Jack Dempsey. Hugh Talman, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution A new ...