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2 unusual facts about Gene Tunney


Cloud Club

It opened in July 1930 with a membership of 300, including Edward F. Hutton, Condé Nast and the boxer Gene Tunney.

Jack Delaney

Had Delaney defeated Maloney, he would have faced the heavyweight champion Gene Tunney.


Colt Woodsman

Now standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bullet weighing only 40 grains and with a striking energy of 51 foot pounds at 25 feet from the muzzle, I will guarantee to kill either boxer Gene Tunney or Joe Louis before they get to me from the opposite corner.

Georges Carpentier

His last truly noteworthy fight was on July 24, 1924, with Gene Tunney at the Polo Grounds in New York; Carpentier lost the bout by TKO after fifteen rounds.

Speculator, New York

After World War I, famous athletes came to practice in the isolated communities, such as Gene Tunney, Max Schmeling, and Max Baer who arrived to train for the heavyweight championship fight.

The Changing Dream

The Changing Dream is the book that was written by the former United States Senator and Representative John V. Tunney, who was the son of the 1926 to 1928 heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney.

Tommy Loughran

Loughran fought many middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight champions in his career, including Gene Tunney, Jack Sharkey and Georges Carpentier.


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