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...issue between Mara and Tunney was simple enough. Mara claimed 10% of Tunney's pay for fighting Dempsey in 1926, and 25% of all his earnings thereafter. He had proof that Tunney offered him the 25%, but was vague about what it was for. Tunney claimed that he hired Mara to arrange the fight in New York and that Mara failed. But the private altercation was of small interest compared to the figures, publicly detailed for the first time, of how much money an important heavyweight makes. Tunney, who had been a shipping clerk at $18 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Championship Business | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Motion picture rights Tunney-Dempsey bout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Championship Business | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...Tunney-Dempsey bout at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Championship Business | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Even before he made much money. Tunney wrote of "the battle you fellows are having back there trying to overcome certain angles." Letters from Billy Gibson, Tunney's manager, also spoke of "straightening out angles"; of getting people, many of them well known in Manhattan and national politics, "lined up" or "in our corner" and of "working on" others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Championship Business | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...trouble was that certain Manhattan politicians owned shares in Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight contender. The New York State Boxing Commission had decreed that Dempsey must fight Wills before fighting anyone else. Meanwhile the late Tex Rickard was trying to arrange for Tunney to fight Dempsey. He was telling Tunney that the champion was sick, weak, "full of boils," telling Dempsey that Tunney would be an easier match than Wills; telling both to keep quiet about what he told them. At last the Tunney-Dempsey fight was arranged in Philadelphia and Tunney won the title. Then came further services from Agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Championship Business | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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