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SlimTrae
Braddock, Corbett, Marciano and i believe Dempsey all weighed under 200lbs along with Tunney.
Does that eliminate them from defeating today's fighters?
Once again Rjj won the HW title & hadnt knocked out a single fighter in almost a decade. Omar Sheika.
So it is probable that Tunney could have defeated a few top names from the 60s like Floyd Patterson.
70s Bonevena, Chuavelo, 80s if marvis Frazier got a title shot, Tunney wouldn't have?
And if Tunney's defense can evade a clean shot from Michael moorer, he might have outboxed him as well as the guy Moorer got the title back from: Axel Schultz.
It's all pure speculation, but what is factual?
How many here claim that the Klitshko bros are in a weak era, then turn around and defend it.
Oh Tunney couldnt beat guys in this weak era...
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Master seemed to agree with your analysis here but let me bring you the news my friend...
- These ancient boxers mentioned ARE largely excluded from fighting HW boxers today as they were because they don't make the limit. They have absolutely NOTHING in common with any HW today, other than the fact that at one stage in history, they were once CALLED Heavyweights. The definition of what it means to be a HW has changed several times since then. Today they would be regarded as "light HW's", not even CW's!
They are EXACTLY comparable with the likes of Sergei Kovalev when considering cross eras. And of course Sergei is a better boxer and better puncher than any of the ancient fighters you mentioned.
- RJJ did not knock out Ruiz for the HW title at all! Moreover, none of the fighters you mentioned are anywhere NEAR comparable in quality to RJJ either!
- You make a statement regarding Tunney being competitive in the modern era and THEN go on to list just not so ancient boxers as potential opponents anyway. However analysing that list, I still don't think Tunney has any real chance of beating them. Not even Floyd Patterson! The best he could hope for is to survive.
- Michael Moorer would have banged Tunney oout with a single punch and is skillwise far removed from Tunney. Axel Schultz? LOL The guy who beat 260lb Foreman? Your crazy! LOL
- The Klitschko era is possibly the strongest era ever in HW boxing. Evidence wise it is the strongest. There's no real debate about that, just US propaganda to the contrary but most people know that any ancient fighter like Tunney or Dempsey would never step foot in a ring with Klitschko or any of their opponents and were they to, they'd be immediately rendered unconscious.
Your post was not worth a single drop of piss in the dessert!
Something positive about Tunney?
He beat what was then the reigning champion of the world. That's it!
He won it against a crude light HW slugger with no appreciable skills, whom achieved his own success via padding his record and avoiding all dangerous opponents. He never faced a black fighter, and he never faced a decent abilitied 200+ HW boxer. They were all bums!
Tunney himself, ALSO ducked coloured fighters.
Imagine if that occurred today?
Tunney has his place in history. The moment you try to compare him to more recent times, it's a joke.
Sergie Kovalev and Roy Jones Jr. would have been the HW champions of the world for as long as they liked and been so dominant nobody would even want to be a boxer with them around. That is a fact!
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