Boxing matches were selling out Yankee Stadium in the 1910s. Jack Dempsey probably was the biggest athlete in the world in his prime. Radio broadcasts garnered hundreds of thousands of listeners.
Dempsey's match with Georges Carpentier was the first $1 million gate in boxing history. The year was 1921. Adjusted for inflation, that $1 million would be $11.8 million today. In a 1927 bout, Dempsey and Gene Tunney drew a $2 million gate, with Tunney taking home $1 million himself.
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