Martin corrects Lewis and suggests that he must mean " Gene Tunney.

According to a 2007 biography, Tunney promised Polly that he would quit boxing and defended his title only one more time after the second Dempsey fight, against Tom Heeney of New Zealand.

Always moving and boxing behind an excellent left jab, Tunney would study his opponents from the first bell.

The two men would meet three more times, with Tunney successfully defending his regained title in another fifteen round bout and then splitting a pair of no decision battles ( Greb got the nod of two of three local newspapers in the fourth bout while Tunney easily won the fifth, after which, Greb told Tunney that he didn't want to fight him again, as he saw that Tunney was better.

Tunney would go on to beat Jack Dempsey for the heavyweight title.

Greb remained the only man ever to have beaten Tunney, and the latter would be among the pall-bearers at Greb's funeral.

One who refused to train there was Gene Tunney, because he complained about the place's sanitation, saying that he would never train there unless the windows were opened.

Some believe that if Dempsey had responded to the referee's orders in time, he would have likely regained the world Heavyweight crown with a seventh round knockout of Tunney.

Tunney would later write a book, The Changing Dream.

This match helped set up a 14-man elimination tournament at WrestleMania IV, since WWF President Jack Tunney declared the title " vacant " a week after The Main Event match as the WWF Championship " cannot be bought or sold ," where the winner would win the WWF Championship.

Less than a week later, on the January 25 episode of Superstars, WWF President Jack Tunney held a press conference to announce who among Sid, Savage, Hogan, " Rowdy " Roddy Piper and The Undertaker would face Ric Flair for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania VIII.

Before Tunney even announced who the number one contender would be, Sid stood up as if Tunney called his name.

Tunney announced that both wrestlers would get a WWF Championship match at WrestleMania, the prize given to the winner of the Royal Rumble match, and both wrestlers would have to wrestle two matches for the pay-per-view.

Tunney announced that a coin toss would be used to decide who faced Yokozuna for the belt first.

Tunney said during his campaign for alderman that he would sell his interest in four Ann Sather restaurants in order to serve as a full-time alderman and to eliminate a potential conflict of interest.

On February 24th, Tunney announced that both the WWF Championship and Intercontinental Championship would be on the line for the first-time ever during the match.

Had Delaney defeated Maloney, he would have faced the heavyweight champion Gene Tunney.

The first fight between Tunney and Dempsey had been moved out of Chicago because Dempsey had learned that Al Capone was a big fan of his, and he did not want Capone to be involved in the fight.

Despite Democrat Jimmy Carter's victory in the Presidential election, Tunney lost to Hayakawa in a mild upset ( it is to be noted that Republican Gerald Ford carried California in the Presidential election ).

Angus continues making films, starring as the outlaw Will Tunney in his new western film " Shadowheart " ( 2009 ), which may be a reference to the film that made him famous.

Shortly after, Ax left the WWF, with the on-air explanation being an order from kayfabe WWF President Jack Tunney that there could only be two members of Demolition.

He served as executive secretary under Frank Tunney, Fred Kohler, and Karl “ Doc ” Sarpolis, but it became clear that those men were more concerned with their own territories.

Hepburn ultimately quit working for Tunney ; he had one more brief stint as a wrestler while working for Cliff Parker in British Columbia before retiring.

The traditional singer Paddy Tunney relates how Colum " wrote " the song after returning from a literary gathering in Donegal with Herbert Hughes and others.

The original plan for the main event was the long awaited bout between Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship, the meeting between the two legends was even promoted on television in a mock press conference where WWF President Jack Tunney had announced Hogan as the number one contender to Flair's WWF Championship.

* 7 Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.

The traditional singer Paddy Tunney learned it in County Fermanagh and recorded it in 1965.

In the song She Twists the Knife Again from Richard Thompson's 1985 album Across a Crowded Room, describing the mismatched intensity in a strife-ladened relationship, Thompson writes: " I'm in a fist fight / She thinks she's Gene Tunney!

Tunney also points to a version of the song which he learnt from his mother which she called, My Young Love Said to Me.

Due to the area's vacationers, many of which come from New York and Northern New Jersey, Route 37 is routinely congested with seasonal traffic in the summer, especially on and around the Mathis and Tunney Bridges and at the Garden State Parkway interchange as heavy tourist traffic converges on the shore.

In 1996, she appeared in a lead role in The Craft, in which her character formed a teenage coven with characters portrayed by Neve Campbell, Rachel True and Robin Tunney.

In 1997, Tunney starred in Bob Gosse's Niagara, Niagara with Henry Thomas in a performance which garnered her the Best Actress award Volpi Cup at the 1997 Venice International Film Festival.

Tunney was a thinking fighter who preferred to make a boxing match into a game of chess, which was not popular during the times when such sluggers as Jack Dempsey, Harry Greb and Mickey Walker were commanding center stage.

In 1932, Tunney published a book called A Man Must Fight, in which he gave comments on his career and boxing techniques.

Also, the fight was staged inside a 20-foot ring, which favored the boxer with superior footwork, in this case Tunney.

Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling was seen on a station out of Buffalo, New York, which allowed the joint Tunney / Crockett / Scott effort to bring a full slate of shows to Ontario and upstate New York.

During his Senate term, Tunney produced a weekly radio report to California, in which he often interviewed other legislators.

During the match a problem with the ring ropes meant the match could not air on television as originally planned, so kayfabe President Jack Tunney " reversed the decision " in print media which had reported the change before the decision not to air it was made.

He lost the title to Gene Tunney in 1926, but many of his fights were historic, such as his defenses against Georges Carpentier, Luis Firpo and Tom Gibbons, a fight which almost left the town of Shelby, Montana bankrupt.

Kerzner was a producer in the 1990s at Newton Cable, during this time the show went through several co-hosts which included Harland Williams, Eric Tunney and Tim Rykert.

They were formed to replace an aborted Baltimore franchise, which was to have been owned by retired boxer George Tunney but was unable to secure a stadium deal.

Some memorable moments from his WWF tenure included winning the battle royal at WrestleMania IV by eliminating Bret Hart, who was then a heel, after a sneak attack, a brief feud with then-champion Randy Savage in early 1989 which led to matches in the main event, feuding with Roddy Piper ( starting before the 1990 Royal Rumble and culminating at WrestleMania VI ) and with Jake " The Snake " Roberts ( where Bad News had a sewer rat against Jake's snake ) and attacking WWF President Jack Tunney on The Brother Love Show.

Despite warnings by WWF president Jack Tunney, Garvin punched Valentine during his match against Jimmy Snuka, which led to him being banned from refereeing.