Where does Gene Tunney rank ?

At heavyweight, at light-heavy, and pound-for-pound ?

[McGrain]

I only feel comfortable ranking him at Light Heavy, where i'd go top 3.

[janitor]

At light heavyw he is top 5 for sure with a good claim to the No1 spot.

At heavyweight he ranks higher head to head than he dose on resume.

Jack Sharkey for example has a far deeper resume but looking at their fights against common oponents you get the idea that Tunney was a level above.

[mcvey]

Originally Posted by janitor

At light heavyw he is top 5 for sure with a good claim to the No1 spot.

At heavyweight he ranks higher head to head than he dose on resume.

Jack Sharkey for example has a far deeper resume but looking at their fights against common oponents you get the idea that Tunney was a level above.

Tunney easily outclassed andstopped Tom Heeney in 11 rounds ,SHarkey fought Heeney earlier and should have done the same to set up a meeting with Gene ,but he only scraped a draw,Jack was inconsistant,Tunney wasnt,he was a cool calculating boxer with good skills ,but his resume is pretty thin at Heavy so he is difficult to evaluate,top 15probably ,at LH easily top 5 imo.

[Bummy Davis]

He was Heavyweight Champion so where do we rate him there, well his career was short but he did well vs a not too shot but rusty Dempsey, so based on those wins I say he holds his own vs anyone in the top 10 and IMO is close to the top 10 somewhere

[robert ungurean]

I put Tunney up there on any list.
He was a well prepaired master boxer.

[Muchmoore]

Tunney is definently top 5 at lightheavyweight. At heavyweight, he ranks in the 15-20 range of all time.

I think he's top 15 at heavyweight, top 4 at light-heavyweight.

Pound-for-pound he might make the top 30 boxers ever.

[Rock0052]

It wouldn't be a stretch to put him at top 30 p4p...your rankings seem pretty much right for him. For holding a winning record against Greb and Dempsey, Tunney's a guy who doesn't get mentioned enough.