Jack Dempsey spars Arturo Godoy & Gene Tunney Speak etc etc

Nice Find Rocky :good

 

Thanks rock! That was great!


Did you see the Dempsey uppercut to the stomache towards the end, on the inside? brutal!

Thats what it looks like during those inside scuffles in the old fights, huh?

 

Killer stuff. Thanks.

 

The second link has interviews with Baer ,Tunney,Dempsey,and Schmeling ,regarding Max's chances with Louis in their rematch.And a quick post fight sound bite from Louis,awesome stuff!
Thanks for posting this piece of fight history:good

 

superb...keep those coming...you're finding some great stuff fella.

 

Great stuff ... I remember reading that Tunney always had a bit of a horse voice after the Dempsey fight based on a shot he took on his Adam's Apple and you hear it in the audio ... otherwise he speaks extremely well ...

 

Gene's voice should be as familiar to us as Dempsey's and Jack Johnson's. He lived until 1978, certainly campaigned extensively during his son's political career, while also writing and lecturing prolifically. Yet, audio recordings of him seem virtually impossible to come by. Fitz died in 1917, and I've never heard Marvin Hart (who died in 1931) speak, but everybody else dating back to Corbett is accounted for. (Corbett, being a theater professional, had a perfectly well modulated generic voice, very well suited for radio and movies, not high pitched like Tommy Burns. He only made a couple appearances in talking pictures before his death from cancer at 66. If he retained good health for ten more years, he almost certainly would have made a cameo appearance in "Gentleman Jim.")

 

For the record the audio purported to be of the second Dempsey-Tunney fight is not, it is a remake from a few decades later that was issued on a record about the greatest radio news stories.

Also, Tunney did not have a hoarse voice. I have tons of audio of him dating from the thirties on to his death. That hoarseness in his voice you hear in the recording is due to his age, not damage he suffered from Dempsey. In the 1930s when he was campaigning regularly for political friends his voice was quite clear and in fact he sounded an awful lot like John F. Kennedy after having ditched his New York accent in favor of a more uppercrust sounding New England accent (Gene was always careful to make himself look, and sound as good as possible).

 

I allways imagined him sounding like JFK,you could tell he is careful with his choice of words ,not using a short one when he can come up with a longer one It is also, obviously the voice of a man getting on in years.
Thanks for the heads up about the long count fight :good

 

I've heard Burns talking about the other Heavyweight Champs ,I thought his voice was rather gruff myself.Dempsey had the high pitch to his voice.

 

Is it? I wondered about that, as it certainly sounds like Joe Humpreys announcing the participants and weights. Joe died in 1936, so if he recorded a recreation of the introductions, it had to be within nine years.

Graham McNamee died in 1942. I was always under the impression that the broadcast of Tunney-Dempsey II was recorded live, and not a recreation.

Aha! So you're the one who's been holding out on us!

 

i would give my left nut just to see the Dempsey - Fulton slaughter.

 

Perhaps you can post some as you are contradicting Tunney's own claim. To make such a definitive statement is foolish. If he had a throat condition he might have treated himself before some engagements and not or others . To flat out say he did not have a hoarse voice , ever, seems like a claim you cannot back.

 

Jack Johnsons? I wouldnt say his is familiar at all. I know you will reference the orchestra and sparring match with Jeanette, but thats not how he sounded when he was a fighter.


One time Rooster4Life uploaded a short clip of Johnson (the real Johnson) in his prime, saying a poem or something through an audio clip.

It was incredible, he sounded just like Darth Vadar haha. Extremely intimidating. I would say that not many are familiar with his voice before he was in his 60's.

The Tunney audio clip is awesome. Thanks for that. Does anyone know when it was recorded? And is taht true about his adams apple? WOW! I can hear it distinctly. Is it really from Dempsey?