A conversation with Dr. Gene Regen from Nashville, Tennessee. Recorded at Blakeford Senior Life in Nashville. To hear the shorter interview, see "Dr. Gene Regen, The Renaissance Man (Short)."
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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Music by John McHugh
Photography by Warner Tidwell