For the purpose of this question, let's define 'prominent' as someone who: Has fought for a world title, recognized by BoxRec, or... is a member of the IBHOF. So, who can come up with the biggest 'all-fight-all" group of such boxers? Groups of 7: Tin_Ribs: Leonard, Kansas, Welsh, Dundee, White, Mitchell, Kilbane (and if we replace Mitchell with Mandot, we have another 7) Groups of 6: Boilermaker: Jeannette, Langford, McVea, Norfolk, Wills, Jim Johnson Groups of 5: scartissue: Ali, Frazier, Ellis, Quarry, Chuvalo frankenfrank: Ali, frazier, Ellis, Bonavena, Chuvalo scartissue: Napoles, Muniz, Lewis, Lopez, Pruitt scartissue: Charles, Moore, Maxim, Bivins, Marshall Tin_Ribs: Ross, Canzoneri, McLarnin, Petrolle, Fuller
I think I see where you're going as far as a group who has fought one another. Without trying too hard I will start with a group of 5 (I'm sure we can expand on this easily but to get the ball rolling we'll say start at 5). Ali Frazier Ellis Quarry Chuvalo
You could replace Quarry with Bonavena and remain with the same number , but with a looser definition of a round-robin I can give bigger sizes
Hagler Leonard Sims Barkley DeWitt Hearns Duran Benitez and you can even add Benn and Kalambay to it (fought Sims , Barkley and DeWitt) I can give some more , gotta love round-robins
I can see what you mean, as many of these men fought each other... but we're of course looking for groups of fighters were they ALL met each other.
Bukkake, this is not easy. Those first 5 came off the top of my head, but once I started looking into it it became difficult with those parameters. I've only able to do it once more, but I'm sure they're out there. Anyways, here are 5 more: Napoles Muniz Lewis Lopez Pruitt
No, scartissue... it certainly isn't! Much more difficult, than one might think. But you have now taken the lead with 2 x '5'
without doing research....maybe 5 from the murderers row edit : scrub that....the 'fought for world title' bit cancels that.