A million was crazy cash back then you could probably spit in the president's face and get away with it with that kind of dough.

But with all that money to be made, it's just a shame punks like Tunney never gave black fighters a chance to earn a decent living.

In the end he probably made the right choice though, because if him and Dempsey had regularly fought the black fighters of the time, I doubt we'd be talking about them.

Stanley Ketchel fought black fighters, so did Greb, Pep, Lamotta, Marciano, ect. So no, I don't take guys like Tunney or Jack Dempsey seriously.

On this forum I see guys like "Oh if only we had Dempsey or Tunney here today, they'd clean up the HW division." Bull shit. Never mind Wlad, do you think those guys would be up for fighting a 6'8'' black guy with a 100% KO ratio? Or a 6'3'', 240lb black guy like Stiverne?

If you could go back in a time machine and bring prime Dempsey and Tunney to the present, they'd be terrified to get in the ring, and that's a fact. Neither of them would break the top 10.