Gene Tunney: Is he a top 10 ATG heavyweight?

There is no way Gene Tunney is top 15, let alone top 10.

 

see, i think there's an argument (not strong) but tunney in the top 15 based on the wins over dempsey and gibbons. risko is a decent scalp but greb as a middleweight (decent his own prowess against heavies) doesn't count terribly much in his heavyweight resume cause he was just bigger than a middleweight in those wins.

 

I think the relevant questions are: 1) who did Gene fight of who he

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have fought; 2) how did Gene

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in light of the people he did fight.

 

I've got him at #17

 

Bert Sugar smokes crack cigars! :smoke

Gene Tunny is a skinny lighthvy who has a heavywieght resume of 2 wins VS a past-primer hobo who was more rusted then a bucket of rust flakings And he even needed a 14 second longcount to save his sorry ass in fight no.2. So IMO Tunny is not top 20 at heavy, he is one overrated hombre, who Dempsey-Fangirls will forever bumsuckle to protect their precious tramp idol. :yep


Foreman Hoooooooooooooooooook!:hat

 

I have him number 16. Missing fights with wills, sharkey and schmelling stops him being top 10 inlight of his short rein.

 

Because Tunney has nothing on them with regards to HW resume.

 

Unforgiven is going to be pissed! :scaredas:

 

Tunney is a Top 10 fighter in my opinion.. as he was one of if not thee most intelligent fighter ever. he had fantastic skills was fleet-footed with a devastating right-cross and excellent left-jab, he was intelligent and clever enough to be able to master Harry Greb by working out Greb's style and beating him. Tunney beat master boxers in Loughran, Gibbons,Greb, Levinsky & Delaney he withstood and mastered the rampaging Dempsey. his skills was incredible compared to other heavyweights as is his overall record of 66-1-2 from middleweight to heavyweight... Without doubt Gene Tunney is a brilliant legendary fighter and a Top 10 Heavyweight great..

Boxing Historian Tracy Callis rates Tunney No6 Heavyweight ever
Boxing Historian Nat Fleischer rates Tunney No8 Heavyweight ever
Charley Rose ranks Tunney No6 Heavyweight ever
WBM Poll in 1974 rated Tunney No7 Heavyweight ever
Nat Loubet Historian rated Tunney No6 Heavyweight ever
Historian Bert Sugar rates Tunney No5 Heavyweight ever
Historian John Durant rates Tunney No5 Heavyweight ever
Bill Brennan rates Tunney No5 Heavyweight ever
Historian Arthur Harris rates Tunney No5 Heavyweight ever.

But what you are saying is all the above Boxing historians are wrong and you are right... You are a "HATER" JAB and it is now well known that you are a hater.. you hate all the great fighters from yesteryear, your posts all point to you being a hater, you claim Dempsey, Tyson, Frazier, Marciano & Tunney are not Top 10 fighters yet Tommy Morrison is up there with the all time greats, you hate on Willie Pep & Sandy Sadler and your only imput on this forum is tolling and ridicule of anyone who praises a boxer pre-1992.... you claim i have been destroyed on the Dempsey thread yet you could not be further from the truth. many knowledgable posters have voiced the same opinions as myself and made their case to prove you wrong and show you to be a HATER... you started this thread and your only case for Tunney not being a Top 10 Heavyweight is "He was not a heavyweight" Gene Tunney was The Heavyweight Champion of the World you stupid clown with All those Boxing Historians rating him as a Heavyweight...would Tommy Morrison be a heavyweight without his steroids ?

 

you do exactly the same with your Sam Langford theories

 

1/. everyone with the exception of those who refused to fight him
2/. exceptional