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John Tunney always liked a good fight-from a far distance
From the days of his childhood in Ireland's County Mayo, where he grew up idolizing John L.Sulivan, the bare knuckled and blustering heavyweight champion from Boston, to the years after he came to New York, where he came to worship another American-born Heavyweight Irish Boxer James J. Corbett, whose victory over Sulivan with padded gloves ushered in a new era in boxing.
John Tunney's favorite diversion was watching, reading, or talking about boxing fights. This was especially true if a bout involved Irish boxers, which in that era many, if indeed not all, did.
From the days of his childhood in Ireland's County Mayo, where he grew up idolizing John L.Sulivan, the bare knuckled and blustering heavyweight champion from Boston, to the years after he came to New York, where he came to worship another American-born Heavyweight Irish Boxer James J. Corbett, whose victory over Sulivan with padded gloves ushered in a new era in boxing.
John Tunney's favorite diversion was watching, reading, or talking about boxing fights. This was especially true if a bout involved Irish boxers, which in that era many, if indeed not all, did.