Richard George Dunn[1] was an American sports promoter who was general manager of the Detroit Olympia and Boston Garden.
[2] In addition to working at both the second and third Madison Square Gardens, Dunn, along with MSG vice president William F. Carey, supervised the construction of Philadelphia's John F. Kennedy Stadium.
[2][3] Dunn also promoted the July 3, 1931 Max Schmeling–Young Stribling fight at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium for the Madison Square Garden Corporation.
[16][17][18][19][20] In 1932 and 1933, he promoted wrestling cards at the Olympia headlined by Gus Sonnenberg, Ed Don George, Dick Shikat, Sándor Szabó, and Karol Zbyszko.
Dunn hired Jessie Costello, who was acquitted of the murder of her husband at a highly publicized trial, to be the club's general treasurer.