Historical Oddities of Boxing

The real question is not whenever it's confirmed or not,but did Leonard successfully managed to make her break up with Benitez?

 

Given the clinic he put on Benitez maybe he made Benitez break up with her hahahaha

 

"The Sister Dater Checker" Ray Leonard would've been his nickname if it wasn't too long.

 

Shook Her Ray Leonard?

 

Yep, that's it.

 

Both Tom and his son Peter McNeeley had beefed-up records against the likes of Chip Panzee, Dusty Trunks, Willie Fall and Izzy Dead and got rewarded with big, undeserved shots for their biggest paydays — Tom vs Floyd Patterson (I guess there wasn’t another amateur he could defend against) and Peter vs fresh-from-prison Mike Tyson.

Neither, surprisingly, won.

They went down a combined 13 times, depending on accounts (some of Tom’s 11 were ruled slips, apparently, and there were reports ranging from eight to 13 knockdowns; Peter was down twice).

Amazingly, Floyd vs Tom was on closed circuit rather than free TV, shown in theaters as part of a doubleheader (with Sonny Liston winning a KO1 in another location as the other featured bout), and Tyson vs Peter was PPV.

 

In 1912, referee Jackie Welsh started counting over Ad Wolgast and Joe Rivers after they both landed punches, knocking each other down. Then he picked Wolgast up (or claimed he was rising first, depending on the source) and counted Rivers out, in spite of a low blow landed by Wolgast.

From the Box Rec take on that bout:

• "Delivering simultaneous blows, they knocked each other out. Referee Jack Welch counted to ten and the bout was over. However, he awarded the win to Wolgast, claiming that Ad had started to rise before the fatal ten. Rivers's fans let out a roar, believing he had been fouled. To add to the confusion, the timekeeper insisted the round had ended when Welch reached the count of four. But Welch's ruling became the official verdict."

 

In high school, i certainly saw my father ready to go a few rounds with guys my sister dated.

 

Was dad super protective, sis a bad judge or a bit of both, Barrf?

 

bit of both, but she did alright in the end. Her husband is a good dude.

 

A happy ending mate.

 

Which fight was it where Paulie Malignaggi went ape**** because his opponent stole his side piece, lol? I don’t know if it was historic or even an oddity, but it was funny as hell.

 

Miguel Canto won his only lineal flyweight title by beating Shoji Oguma. Chan-hee Park won his only lineal flyweight title by beating Miguel Canto. Shoji Oguma won his only lineal flyweight title by beating Chan-hee Park.
(It sounds like one of those brainteasers from childhood, but it's really just that The Ring decided that Oguma's 1975 WBC title defense against Canto would be for the vacant lineal title.)

Within the span of a year and a half, Tomas Molinares knocked two of the best defensive fighters of the '80s unconscious during their title defenses, but neither fight went into the books as a KO. The results of those fights were Starling NC Molinares and Bassa UD15 Zapata.
(Supposedly Hilario Zapata leapt outside of the ring during his defense against Fidel FBassa, and in the ensuing fracas Molinares, who was in Bassa's corner, knocked out Zapata. The ref gave him five minutes to recover before restarting the fight.)

 

The first fight I can remember watching and being old enough to remember the names was Mancini and Bramble.