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Thomas Heeney 18 May — 15 June was a professional heavyweight boxer from New Zealand , best known for unsuccessfully challenging champion Gene Tunney for the heavyweight championship of the world in New York City on 26 July He also retrieved a third woman who did not survive. He learnt to box from his father and his older brother Jack Heeney, who was the New Zealand amateur welterweight champion in and middleweight champion from to He became a professional boxer when he fought Bill Bartlett in Gisborne in Heeney was also a rugby union player and played for the Hawke's Bay — Poverty Bay team against the Springboks in Heeney went to the United States in He beat Jim Maloney, Johnny Risko and Jim Delaney [ 3 ] and eventually ranked fourth among the world's heavyweight boxers.

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After fighting Jack Sharkey , later a heavyweight world champion, in for the right to fight Tunney, on 26 July , Heeney fought Gene Tunney at Yankee Stadium , New York City, for the world heavyweight championship title. The referee, Ed Forbes, stopped the scheduled 15 round fight in the 11th round, and Tunney won. It was said of Heeney:.

His gritty performance in this fight would have been considered by many observers to have justified his sobriquet of The Hard Rock from Down Under given by renowned writer and journalist, Damon Runyon. A week after his defeat, Tom married Marion Dunn, an American.