Gene Tunney & James J Corbett Sparring Film, New York 1925

References have been made over the years to a legendary sparring session between Heavyweight Champion to be Gene Tunney and former champ James J. Corbett, prior to Tunney’s first fight with Jack Dempsey. A film was made of the meeting, but has not been seen for decades. Several years ago and a film archivist discovered an abridged version of this movie on 9mm film, a small but format high quality format in the 1920s. The Tunney-Corbett film was transferred to video for preservation. See more historic film from the archive: The Meeting According to published accounts, Jim Corbett was in Chicago for the Tunny-Risko fight of November 1925 and surprised Tunney in his dressing room after the fight. Grantlin Rice arranged for the two to meet again in New York a month later to be part of his Sportlight movie series. On the roof of the Putnam Building in New York’s Times Square, Tunney and Corbett sparred for the cameras, and the two staged Corbet