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What Champion do you prefer: JACK DEMPSEY OR GENE TUNNEY?
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Originally posted by Scott9945 View PostMany fans don't realize that except for the famous knockdown, Tunney won almost every round in their two fights.
The point of the thread was about something else.
But yes, eventually we would touch on it because Tunney was a Master Boxer.
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Originally posted by Tek My Pounches View PostI remember seeing that, Tunney was pretty much a dancer type of boxer right?
Tunney was a smarter and far skilled individual. Slightly underrated if you ask me, especially when mentions of past heavyweight greats are brought up.
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its the ideolical aspect that makes dempsey so famous,
the idea that a hobo off the street, threw hard work,
could become a champion, and beat the crap out of
a 6'5 giant in 3 rounds. dempsey has a legiond,
tunney does not.
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Originally posted by black.ink View PostHe was a better boxer, if that's what you mean. Dempsey's style was later seen to be adopted and evolved in the likes of Joe Frazier and Mike Tyson.
Tunney was a smarter and far skilled individual. Slightly underrated if you ask me, especially when mentions of past heavyweight greats are brought up.
Originally posted by ~Tunney View PostMuhammed Ali said he learned and used some techniques invented by Gene Tunney.
Tunney had a reputation of being a very innovative, clever fighter.
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Originally posted by ~Tunney View PostMuhammed Ali said he learned and used some techniques invented by Gene Tunney.
Tunney had a reputation of being a very innovative, clever fighter.
I thought he just had respect for him but that was about it. He gave Tunney credit for being a "Scientific" fighter before himself.
Tunney wasn't the first though. Even farther back there were other fighters. Johnson was said to have learned from Joe Choynski who was a smart fighter. Another Smart fighter ahead of his time was said to be James J. Corbett.
But these are the modern day fighters since if we go way back to Ancient Greece, if you read some stories about their fighters, they had some clever ones as well.
There's a list of clever boxers before Ali actually.
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Originally posted by portuge puncher View Postits the ideolical aspect that makes dempsey so famous,
the idea that a hobo off the street, threw hard work,
could become a champion, and beat the crap out of
a 6'5 giant in 3 rounds. dempsey has a legiond,
tunney does not.
He was known as "The Fighting Marine" - he missed part of his early career going to fight in WW I. His record was in itself legendary, losing only once to an ATG and avenging the loss three times.Last edited by The Hammer; 05-31-2009, 04:22 PM.
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