 after he knocked out Jack Dempsey, who was the world champion. And Jack Dempsey was a tough guy to knock out, but he managed. But anyways, he married my mother just two months later in Rome. He didn't want to get married in the U.S. He was trying to get away from the negativity of the newsmen and the press and the fight fans who had had it with Gene Tunney, and they felt that Gene was not being true to himself, trying to be a student at the same time that he was