Jack Dempsey had lots of controversy in his fights: pushed back on the ring apron in the Firpo fight, failing to retire to a neutral corner after smashing Tunney to the ground in their rematch, and knocking out Jack Sharkey while Sharkey was complaining to the referee about low blows. But the public loved Dempsey more than Sharkey, Tunney, and Firpo combined.
This Harding-Kerrigan story is super gigantic because both skaters were immensely talented and on top of the world in a sport of beauty and grace and then this ugly-thugly violence happened to Kerrigan and Tonya’s hubby gets exposed as a perp....all while the Olympics is fast approaching. Wow! Sports/crime stories can’t get much bigger.
What you know about boxing you could write on the head of a pin
and you’d still have room for your name and address.