Which middleweights do you think could beat Gene Tunney?

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  1. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Not necessarily favour, but have a reasonable chance, say atleast 1 out of 6.

    Edit: Other than Greb obviously lol.
     
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  2. surfinghb

    surfinghb Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Monzon, Fitzsimmons, Hopkins, RJJ
     
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  3. Cecil

    Cecil Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Hardly any.
     
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  4. ellerbe

    ellerbe Loyal Member Full Member

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    lol. Tunney would get killed by top MW amateurs today let alone pros. Do you really think that lowly of humans that you'd think that we regressed since the early 1900s?
     
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  5. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    Greb might well have been the only one who could have done it!
     
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  6. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    Like clockwork
     
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  7. The Morlocks

    The Morlocks Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    This place has gotten ridiculous. First GGG/Marciano. Now this. Adios muchachos!!!!!!!
     
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  8. Seamus

    Seamus Proud Kulak Full Member

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    McCallum
    Toney
    Hopkins
    McClellan
    Tiger
    Benn
    Jones, Jr

    You know, the "kind" of fighter he never faced.
     
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  9. Odins beard

    Odins beard Fentanyl is one hell of a drug.... Full Member

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    Ones who didn't have Christian names?
     
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  10. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Uh, Greb beat Tunney.
     
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  11. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    What kind is that exactly?
     
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  12. BitPlayerVesti

    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Pretty sure he means black. Not sure WTF the likes of Benn and McClellan brings to the table to beat Tunney over Dempsey.

    Never got why boxing forums are so full of racialist reasoning.

    Cultural factors are far more important, and they've changed a lot over time. Refusing to face fighters detracts, but it doesn't negate someone's actual achievements. It'd be absurd to say SRR was trash because he ducked Burley. There's been fighters of all different styles from all different backgrounds at all different levels.
     
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  13. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Hopkins wouldn`t have stopped Tunney in `93 when he had that awful fight with Jones, Tunney was more skilled than Hopkins at that point and after Hopkins improved defensively he got less knockouts, so I don`t he could have stopped Tunney but Gene wouldn`t be able to land much either because eventually Hopkins became better defensively than every other guy mentioned here.
     
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  14. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Jones would have ducked Tunney and G-man would have been out-boxed the same way Dempsey was, McCallum wasn`t very good at light heavy, his body was flabby, but he made life hard for Roy early in their bout, so he could do the same with Gene maybe.
     
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  15. mark ant

    mark ant Canelo was never athletic Full Member

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    Sorry about that thread, GGG would of had a much better chance vs Tunney than he would vs Marciano.
     
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