Tunney believed a heavyweight boxer could beat a 460 pound silverback

Tunney on the drink again.

 

Sounds just like most of the forum when discussing any decent fighter's chances vs Marciano.

 

About sixty years later, Battlin' Mike Tyson almost ran the experiment when he reportedly offered a zookeeper 10k to be allowed into the gorilla exhibit and teach a bullying ape some manners.

 

What if the coughing baby put the atom bomb in a choke hold?

 

For all Tunney's attempts to don an intellectual air about himself, he was just a dumb, tough kid from Hell's Kitchen who later took to drink (It's the curse of his people, according to Frank Sinatra).

 

Gene sounds like Corbett barking BS at Jack Johnson from the safety of Jim Jeffries corner in Reno. No wonder Gene and Corbett got along so well.

If you get the time, you should check out Tunney’s lesser known literary endeavour: A Man Must Drink. Forward by Ernest Hemingway.

 

Well he’s wrong lol

 

BUT have we ever let a HW actually hit a gorilla and see what happens? I’m curious, I have an assumed answer and the only way to find out is messed up to say the least (chain it up etc) but could Dempsey actually fold a gorilla with a well placed body shot? Does Tyson rock it with a hook? Do we have footage of gorillas actually punching one another to chin check them? Do they have that anatomy?

 

I can wrestle with a muzzled, declawed gorilla then? Or not?

 

Tunney actually tried to put this to the test. He wanted to promote a Gargantua v Tony Galento bout in Philadelphia which, he imagined, would draw a $225,000 gate.

Galento, sadly, wasn't keen. As he succinctly put it, "Let Tummy fight his own monkeys."

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Who acid attacks a gorilla?

 

Spurned lover, no doubt. It's the same old story.