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Navy hero, lumberjack and boxing legend Gene Tunney still holds record for heavyweight undefeated streak in a life more colourful than even Fury or Wilder – The Sun | The Sun
Boxing History - 1920s heavyweight champion Gene Tunney, “The Fighting Marine,” who died on this date in 1978. Tunney famously seized the title from Jack Dempsey in 1926. When Tunney died, Dempsey
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