Name: Dr. Gene Regen

Age: 91

Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee

Boxing Record: 1-0

"I only had one TKO, and that was John Jay Hooker."

"John Jay Hooker, the political gadfly."

"Yes, uh-huh. And he had had a lot of private training and I was scared to death of him. So I only threw one punch. I went out, dashed around a little bit, faked a left above his head, and unloaded everything I had in my right hand right in his solar plexus. He flopped back on the mat and wouldn't get up."

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