Tunney and Sharkey really didn’t like each other

Didn't know shitting on Gene Tunney was trendy 100 years back, as well

 

To be fair Tunney did cultivate a BS intellectual image didn’t he?

 

I already liked The Boston Gob but, after reading that,…..I now like him that much more.

 

No wonder they got along so well

 

James J Corbett’s inner monologue in his book feels like I’m reading the 1800s version of American Psycho. Jim was vain, thuggish, frothing racist and genuinely anti social he isn’t someone you’d want to know and struck me as a demeaning bully mostly. Dempsey unlike Corbett and Tunney seemed like the real, natural gentleman he enjoyed literature was often warm to people and curious about high culture.

EDIT: Jack reminds me of a sort of Conan the Barbarian figure from the right angle.

 

I would hate to be in a room with them at a party it’d feel like a social hostage situation, they’d both probably spend the night “chairing” vaguely discussing a book they skimmed, brow beating everyone into nodding along. JJC’s mask would slip after enough alcohol and he’d probably stick Mark Twains head in the toilet or something.

 

Tunney was an unlikable guy amongst the working class, of which Sharkey was a member.

He (Tunney) was seen as a smart assed high hat who actually read books. Boxers don't read books. The Sunday comics sure but not literature ffs.

 

Before feeding it to a gorilla as a ''distraction" in order to Box its head off.

 

You should do one of your Wylie style breakdowns on Sharkey. JS was a really good boxer, showed off some flashy stuff, worth more of a study then lots of other HW’s he boxed like a really good 160lber.

 

Why not, haven't watched much of Sharkey anyhow, so this might be a solid chance.

 

Well, Gene Tunney was a U.S. Marine. It's hard to imagine him being scared of anything.

That's not to say he could not be. It's natural to be scared sometimes.

But U.S. Marines operate more like Michael Corleone. Who himself was a U.S. Marine. They are trained to kill if necessary. I am the daughter of a U.S. Marine so I should know.

That said, this seemed more like Sharkey trying to get Tunney to fight and to sell the fight. Plenty of boxers act like they hate each other when it turns out they don.t Like Jorge Paez told me about the Puerto Rican-Mexican rivalry: "its all to sell the fight".

But boxers who don't like each other is not uncommon either. Monzon and Valdes and Chavez and Randall, for example. And Frazier (mostly for his part) and Ali although Ali seemed to like Frazier, and Wilfredo Gomez seemed to like Salvador Sanchez, Im not sure about Sanchez liking Gomez, however, but given that Wilfredo gets along with Carlos Zarate, Lupe Pintor and Juan Laporte, Im sure they could be friends nowadays too.

 

Sharkey says Tunney was afraid to meet him and Risko and handpicked Heeney but Tunney beat Risko (who later beat Sharkey) and knocked Heeney out. The same Heeney who beat Risko and who Sharkey couldnt beat. Tunney also defeated Dempsey, who stopped Sharkey. Sharkey sounds bitter.

 

Yet he came from the low station of Hell's Kitchen, his family living in a cramped apartment.