Is Gene Tunney overrted?

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  1. Rise Above

    Rise Above IBHOF elector Full Member

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    So how did Dempsey beat Willard or Carl Morris?
     
  2. Rise Above

    Rise Above IBHOF elector Full Member

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    How did Sharkey beat Carnera?
     
  3. Rise Above

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    How did Loughran beat Impelletiere?

    The list goes on....
     
  4. Rise Above

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    How did Mickey walker weighing 175 beat the 223 pound Arthur De Kuh? Skills obviously play no part, its all about the size...
     
  5. janitor

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  6. turpinr

    turpinr Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    the top ten at present aren't only not very good they are bland too but there have been other poor era's including Marciano's reign as champion
     
  7. Hamburger

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    Let me see Jess Williard was a bum who only had one decent win over his career.

    Arthur De Kuh that is the best you could come up with ******? A nobody.

    Primo Carnera was a big unskilled mob controlled fighter.

    Loughran beat Impelletiere? Who the hell is Impelletiere?

    You are just grasping at straws huh? So that gets you put on ignored.

    Janitor size plays a more important factor than skill. Do you believe Tommy Hearns was more skilled than Tommy Morrison? But would he win? Hell no.

    We aren't talking about some big no talent guy from the 1920s I mean modern heavyweights.

    Gene Tunney didn't beat a modern sized heavyweight so why have him ranked higher than heavyweights he can't beat. Don't respond Janitor because you don't have the intelligence to give me a intelligent answer.
     
  8. Hamburger

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    Janitor now matter how boring Wlad is he is still a heavyweight. Marciano wasn't end of story. He would cream the floor with any 180 pound fighter now on that note if you are going to keep repeating the same old I should ignore you to Janitor. You are one of the most clueless people here. And that is saying something.
     
  9. Rise Above

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    Im merely refuting the claim that a big unskilled heavyweight akin to Butterbean would be champion based on his size. Those were a few I came up with within minutes. You go on to say others cant read yet now its a skill argument and not a size one? Whos the ****** now?

    I have no qualms with modern heavyweights being given the nod in 'hypothetical' match ups but youre the one who claimed Butterbean would be champion back then not me.
     
  10. janitor

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  11. Rise Above

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    Remember saying this halfwit?
     
  12. The Long Count

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    Somehow tomasz adamek has beaten michael grant, Kevin mcbride, Chris arreola, Jonathan banks
     
  13. Hamburger

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    Right as I said Janitor you are a waste so let me put you on ignore. You will keep repeating the same thing over and over again to make fighters like Dempsey , Tunney and Marciano seem better than they are. Neither of them beat real modern sized heavyweights.

    There is no proof that Hearns beat Tucker in sparring. Tommy Hearns was iced out by Hagler but clearly in your eyes Morrison couldn't. Funny kid.

    I said modern heavyweights have some level skill you brain dead idiot. Your mom should of aborted you. I said these guys didn't beat modern heavyweights.

    Not big no skill stiffs and 180 pound fighters of that era. On that not you get ignored.
     
  14. Hamburger

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    Maybe that insult was a little too much Janitor. But you are annoying. You can't answer the question I asked you. I said did Gene Tunny beat a modern sized heavyweight. The answer was no. I didn't ask did any 180 pound fighter in boxing history fight a guy who weighed over 200 pounds but had no skill and beat them but whatever. Maybe I am kind of bitchy sometimes. I guess that is just the way I am, Kind of abrasive. I just get annoying when people can't answer basic questions.

    I am sorry for offending anybody here. It is just a boxing forum and we should have fun with it. I will try not to insult anybody else.
     
  15. Rise Above

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    Serious lols at the no proof comments from this clown. Some people on this forum have actually spent time talking to fighters, trainers, family members of fighters, people in the fight game and have actual knowledge of certain events in boxing history despite this idiots protests of 'no proof' not to mention the constant contradictions in his ever so smart arguments.

    I rarely get into arguments online and now I know why!