Australian Boxing Trivia

Put this in the question time thread.

 

Griffo. Finally recognised by Nat Fleischer in the 1950's as a true World Champ. Location of birth still questionable.. Sofala, NSW is suggested in numerous sources. On a ship enroute to Australia is still debated.

Mick King. Claimant at M/W.

Les Darcy. Arse kicker of all pitiful American so-called fighters. Also recognised bt Nat Fleischer as a true champ. Woud have blasted Greb, Gibbons, Dillon and the other ****-ants into oblivion in the USA. Would take the LHW title without fail. Doubtlessly wiped the floor with Willard also.

Jimmy Carruthers. Australian born. Undisputed Bantam champ.

Lionel Rose. Australian born. Undisputed Bantam champ.

Johnny Famechon. French born. WBC Feather Champ.

Rocky Mattioli. Italian born. WBC Jnr Middle Champ, yet won his crown upon return to Italy.

Jeff Fenech. Australian born. 3 time 'version' title holder.

Lester Ellis. British born. IBF plus another 4 time 'version' title holder.

Barry Michael. British born. IBF 'version' title holder.

Jeff Harding. Australian born. 2 x WBC LH/W 'version' title holder.

Kostya Tszyu. Russian born. 2 x Unified title holder.

Robbie Peden. Australian born. IBF 'version' title holder.

Lovemore N'dou. Born where ever, in a tree??? 'version' title holder.

Vic Darchinyan. Armenian born. Unified plus 'version' title holder. Multi divisional.



Other names such as Ricky Rainer, Craig Trotter, Dave Russel,
Jeff Malcolm etc etc etc have claimed the WBF World Title.

Bob Fitzsimmons gained his greatest boxing knowledge under the guidence of Larry Foley and Jem Mace, before taking the M/W title from Jack Dempsey.... no, not 'William Harrison'........ Therefore deserves as much credit as an Aussie, as many others.

As the response is off the top of my 'empty head', I'm sure I've missed a few names.

Whats the reason for your thread????


whoops!! Mundine and Green too.

 

Quit easy... and from memory again.

Grifffo. Never dethrowned as F/W champ... instead ventured to the USA and boxed under the titlage of their bodies.

Mick King. Lost his title to Jeff Smith.

Les Darcy lost his claimancy to leaving Aust soil and death.

Carruthers lost his title to retirement.

Rose lost his title to Rubin Olivares.

Fammo lost his title to judges.. and Vicente Saldivar.

Mattioli lost to maurice Hope.

Fenech lost to 3 relinquishments.

Lester lost to Michael.

Michael lost to Lockeridge

Tszyu lost in part to Phillips.. and to Hatton later on.

There after, its a ****ing mess.

Dave Russell lost to Johnny Nelson.

Craig Trotter never defended.

Ricky Rainer???

Lesters IBO, IBA, WBF, etc.. who gives a ****??

Jeff Malcolm WBF??

Peden's IBF??

All the title losses are quiet easy to chase up.

Harding to McCallum etc.

I sugget you take a peek at boxrec, as the listings of each mans name will be available. As for the title losses... Its worth a shot.

Hopoate lost his IBA H/W title to David Haye, after 15 exciting round in 2011.... lol


If you'd actually like to compile a list of genuine interest, then let me know.

 

P.S. Welcome to ESB. Cheers.

 

Dont worry no one has anything against ur post, what Leon was saying is that we already have a thread dedicated to these kind of questions, you can find it here:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118061&page=68

Its just better to not clutter the forum with too many threads that are similar

 

WOW... HMMMMMM, thank **** you are here!

Might have wasted pages of the Aust Forum writing about NRL,AFL,ABC,OMG or WTF instead.

Thanks for the tipping... ooops, I mean tip.

 

Don't knock the WTF.

 

I have to laugh. 10 points again.

 

Im pretty sure my post was directed at the noob who was a little offended by Leons comment...

And im sure theres only 1 AFL thread, and only 1 NRL thread. But yes ok, there are a few too many WTF threads!

But im happy to share -tips- with you anytime

 

Garry St Claire at super feather - was he an Aussie at the time - can't remember?

 

Using the patented LeonMcS country of origin formula, yes, as soon as he won the title he was an Aussie. When he lost it he reverted back to South African, or in extreme cases, New Zealander.

 

Some; perhaps all? Australian born claimants:

Peter Jackson; Heavy (1889-92; 1892-93)
Frank Slavin; Heavy (1890-92)
Young Griffo; Feather (1890-93)
Jim Hall; Middle (1892-93)
Mick King; Middle (1914)
Les Darcy; Middle (1915-17)
Jimmy Carruthers; Bantam (1952-54)
Lionel Rose; Bantam (1968-69)
Jeff Fenech; Bantam (1985-87) Super Bantam (87-88.) Feather (88-89)
Jeff Harding; Light Heavy (1989-90; 1991-94)
Anthony Mundine; Super Middle (2004)
Robbie Paden; Super Feather (2005)
Danny Green (2007-08.)

 

Just hypothetically (and I think I know the answer), in the unlikely event that St Claire won another title, would he automatically revert back to being an Aussie??