TB…Name…………………………Year 58…Ted “Kid” Lewis……………1911 58…Len Wickwar…………….…1934 53…Joe Grim……………………1902 51…Len Wickwar……….………1935 50…Len Wickwar………….……1932 49…Len Wickwar………….……1933 48…Len Wickwar………….……1936 46…John “Unk” Russell……...…1905 44…Len Wickwar…………….…1930 44…Harry Greb…………………1919 43…Young Erne…………………1902 42…Young Griffo………….……1890 41…Len Wickwar………….……1931 40…Len Wickwar………….……1937 39…Young Stribling……….……1928 39…Young Stribling……….……1924 38…Wildcat Monte………..……1924 37…Battling Levinsky….………1914 37…Harry Greb…………………1917 37…Young Ahearn………..……1910 37…Knockout Brown…….……1908 37…Cuddy DeMarco……………1923 36…“Wild” Bill McDowell……1935 36…Young Griffo………..……1899 36…Wildcat Monte……………1923 36…Wildcat Monte……………1933 35…Freddie Miller……………1935 35…Cuddy DeMarco…………1926 35…Jack White……….………1908 34…Dave Holly………………1902 34…Duke Tramel……….……1925 34…Johnny Fitzpatrick……………1933 34…Wildcat Monte……………1929 33…Jimmy Wilde………..……1913 33…Joey DeJohn………..……1947 33…Freddie Miller……………1928 33…Young Stribling……………1925 33…Young Griffo……………1888 33…Duke Tramel……….……1924 33…John “KO” Eggers……………1913 33…Walter Mohr……….……1916 32…Lamar Clark………..……1958 32…Matty Baldwin……………1903 32…Ralph Brady……….……1919 31…Maxie Rosenbloom………1932 31…James “Tut” Jackson……………1922 31…Dutch Brandt……….……1912 31…“Philadelphia” Jack O’Brien……………1902 31…Len Wickwar……………1938 31…Willie Russell………………1945 31…Willie Houck………………1909 31…Tommy Feltz………………1900 31…Charley Johnson……………1896 31…Willard “Big Boy” Hogue……………1939 31…Otto “Young” Wallace……………1919 30…Knockout Brown……………1910 30…Ernie Maurer……….………1932 30…Johnny Lamar………………1922 30…Johnny Ray…………………1913 30…Cuddy DeMarco……………1924 30…Battling Murray……………1916 30…Wildcat Monte………..……1926 30…Wildcat Monte………..……1931
:yikes at those rates their careers would only average 2-7 years w/out suffering severe brain damage.
The only question I have is quality of opposition. How could a guy have 58 fights in a year? One fight every 6 days?
..slapsie maxie rosennbloom was an oddity...in 289 fights he scored only 18 knockouts (this is not a typo) and was knocked out just twice - once in 1928 and once in 1937...