<a class="spreaker-player" href="https://www.spreaker.com/episode/15704071" data-resource="episode_id=15704071" data-width="100%" data-height="200px" data-theme="light" data-playlist="false" data-playlist-continuous="false" data-autoplay="false" data-live-autoplay="false" data-chapters-image="true" data-episode-image-position="right" data-hide-logo="false" data-hide-likes="false" data-hide-comments="false" data-hide-sharing="false" >Listen to "Boxing History The Dempsey Vs Tunney Audio Documentary" on Spreaker.</a>
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This Saturday Sept 22nd marks the 91st anniversary of The Dempsey-Tunney "Long Count Fight
held at Soldier Field in 1927. Along with being one of the biggest sporting events of the 1920s,
it was controversial.
Demspey was losing the fight but knocked Tunney down in the 7th round.
The referee took a long time to start the 10 count and Tunney stayed down for 14 seconds.
Many sports reporters have to this day debated if Tunney could've continued had the referee
started the count as soon as Tunney hit the floor .
This documentary made in 2002 features interviews with Studs Terkel (who listened to the live radio
broadcast as a 14 year old) Screenwriter/Sportswriter Budd Schulberg (On The Waterfront
The Harder They Fall) Dempsey biographer Roger Khan Tunney Biographer and Jack Cavanaugh,
Boxing historian Bert Sugar and David Zivin who wrote a feature about the bout for Chicago Magazine
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