Questions for the forum 1. What heavyweight punchers did he face? 2. What big punching heavyweights over 200lb did he face? 3. When did Tunney prove he could take a big punch from a hard hitting heavyweight and not go down? 4. Was Tunneys chin untested at heavyweight? 5. Did Tunney ever give up considerable height reach weight to an opponent?
you dont have 50-100 fights and not have a weak chin exposed so I think Tunney showed a good chin and good recovery in the long count fight. Tunney did not have a lot of heavyweight fights but there were other guys who moved up to heavyweight in the past that were KD and stopped by middleweights like Vicente Rondon stopped by Briscoe and Gonzales at middleweight but went the distance with elite puncher heavyweight Earnie Shavers at heavyweight. Jimmy Ellis was also a guy dropped by middleweights but beat many heavyweights including Leotis Martin (who Ko'd Liston)
