Who is the more durable heavyweight IN THERE PRIME jersey joe walcott or gene tunney?

Very Good Match It Would Be An Awsome Fight---could Go Either Way If I Had To Put Odds On It I Would Say 4/3 Odds On Tunney.tunney Is Really Really Underrated He Had A Tremendous Left Hook And An Even Better Right-his Power Was Actually Pretty Damn Good But His Skill Was Awsome But Man A Prime Walcott Could Always Catch Him.its Depressing How Greats Such As These Have Slipped From The Average Fans Memory.sorry But Even A Past Prime Dempsey Is A Bad Example He Is Problobly The Most Underrated Heavy Of Yesterdays Im A Constant Reader And Veiwer Of Anything To Do With Dempsey And The More I Learn The More Im Amazed.

 

Tunney was more durable. He was only down once in his entire career, and fought many more fights than Walcott did. This one should be a no brainer.

 

That sounds just a teeeny weeny bit rich

 

If we are just talking chins ,it is a diifficult question to answer.Walcott was stopped 6 times,but among those were kos by Louis,and Marciano ,monster punchers.Walcott was possibly not in good shape when Abe Simon stopped him,Tiger jack Fox could hit ,and Al Ettore was a respectable banger.The fact is Walcott met a lot of heavy hitters and won,whereas Tunney only really met one top banger a fading Dempsey who floored him .It hinges on the fact that apart from Dempsey no one put Tunney down ,but his heavyweight opposition werent bangers,Risko,Gibbons ,Madden,Herman,were not known for their power.Walcott weathered the punches of Ray,Layne,Louis 1,Gomez ,so he is more proven in a sense. I find it impossible to state with any kind of certainty who had the better chin,but look forward to the posts.

 

I agree. Walcott took punches from far bigger bangers than Tunney ever did. Gene either fought lesser punchers or men who just couldn't hit him. I pick Walcott as the more proven in the toughness area.

 

P4p it is hard, Tunney was tougher than most believe imo, but Walcott, as many have said rightly above, fought some of the hardest bangers ever, 3 of his stoppages were to 2 of the greatest his division ever offered. We are talking in the HW PRIMES though right? Which would mean there's not an awful lot of fights to take into consideration of Tunney , in comparison to Jersey Joe anyway.

I'll pick Walcott because of the nature of the thread

 

Tunney had a solid chin but lets face it he did not face Prime punchers like Louis and Marciano....Dempsey was a puncher and the shots he hit Tunney with were intense and he got up...but Dempsey's Legs were starting to betray him from inactivity. Still to compare that form of Dempsey to the form of Marciano and Louis that Walcott faced is not really a good baromitor and is it the chin or the recupritive power that is the issue here

 

we get it already, your agenda is plain to see so move on.

 

I gotta go with Walcott he fought a lot bigger punchers, Tunney only really faced one who was past his best.

 

jersey joe! ...he fought them all

 

takes more then a couple scraps with a dirty middle weight to impress me