http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/general/povich/launch/tunney.htm [FONT=arial,helvetica][SIZE=+1] 1927: Tunney vs. Dempsey [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=-1] By Shirley Povich Washington Post Columnist Sept. 22, 1927[/SIZE] It was sudden. The same suddenness that has marked Dempsey's meteoric style. But a few moments of the seventh round had passed. Dempsey hit Tunney in the jaw with a short right hook. Tunney countered with a right jab that to Dempsey's head and danced back into Dempsey's corner. And Dempsey pursued him. Dempsey sent a hard left hook to Tunney's jaw. Tunney winced and the grimace was still on his face, when with that quickness of attack that he has always been able to summon, Dempsey raised his right hand a few short inches, delivered the fist to the side of Tunney's jaw, and Tunney dropped. [FONT="]Tunney was hit hard. He failed to hear the first counting of Referee Barry, but he quickly regained his composure. At the count of three he already had raised an arm and was waiting. He waited until the count reached eight. At nine he arose, again to meet the man who had knocked him down. And, coupling his courage with the ring lore that he was known to possess, he danced away from his foe, saving his title. Then and there by his faultless conduct when matters appeared dark and when the Dempsey of old should have leaped into the "kill" the moment found the Dempsey of 1927 impotent[/FONT]
