- The 'Did you Know' Boxing trivia thread -

One of my favs of the old times, The Barbados Demon, Joe Walcott,

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He fought men from lightweight all the way to heavyweight.

He is the person Arnold Raymond Cream, who you know better as "jersey joe walcott" named himself after.

He actually coined the phrase "the bigger they are the harder they fall."
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- Mayorga once said

Oscar is a great fighter, he loves what he has done for latinos and the only problem with oscar is oscar is not as handsome as him.

I believe that was leading up to Hoya vs Mosley 2.

 

wow man thank you for sharing that.... its exactly why i made this thread, to learn things like that. Thank you! :thumbsup

I had no idea that was why Mike Tyson wore those trunks

 

- Fernando Vargas is the youngest amature national champion in history (last time i checked) and is the youngest 154lb champion in history.

- Jeff Lacy dreamed he was going to lose to JC

 

i cheated on this one lol... but

Mike Tyson earned around $12 million for his 91 second knockout of Michael Spinks in June 1988-that worked out at $132,000 per second!

 

If im wrong on this one please correct me...

David Diaz actually beat Judah to make it on the Olympic team

 

- Mosleys says in the second Oscar fight his hands were hurting so bad he had to get a cortisone shot before the fight.

- Mosleys high score in bowling is 242

- Harry Haft was a concentration camp boxing champion, who often was forced to fight to the death with his opponents by the nazi's. He went on to become a challenger to Rocky Marciano.

- Ken Norton attended Northern Mississippi State University on a football scholarship before joining the Marine Corps, where he took up boxing, and became a three time All Marine heavyweight champion.

 

Again correct me if im wrong but according to my source (Ring Mag)
Ali vs Norton was the last fight to be held at yankee stadium.

 

Edwin Valero has 25 knockouts in 25 fights.... here are some other knockout streaks

Rodolfo Gonzalez, WBC lightweight king from 72-74, had 35 consecutive knockouts
Acelino freitas had 29
Vitali Klit had 27
John 'The Beast' Mugabi had 26
Vargas 17

and to show you it sometimes really has nothing to do with how good a puncher you are

Trinidad had only 5 consecutive stoppages
Tyson had 18
Marcaino 16

 

1897 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
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It was Joe Walcott, the Barbados Demon, welterweight champion of the world from 1901-1904, who actually coined the phrase "the bigger they are the harder they fall." Bob Fitzsimmons certainly popularized the saying before he faced Jim Jeffries, but it was Walcott who first said it. The phrase belonged to Walcott, who despite his short stature was extremely successful against much larger and heavier opponents. He had fantastic stamina and durability as well as a proven punch. A natural welterweight, he was one of the greatest "pound for pound" fighters in boxing history and fought men weighing from lightweight to heavyweight during his career.
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Bob Fitzsimmons had proven himself to be the greatest middleweight of his era, a fearsome puncher with a veteran?s skills, before moving up and taking on some of the best big men in the game. With his fourteenth round knockout of Corbett in 1897, he had become the only middleweight champ to ever win the heavyweight title. It was he who invented and proved the saying, ?The bigger they are, the harder they fall.? Such was not true, he learned, with Jeffries.
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Quote Verifer says
http://books.google.com/books?id=d6...ivan bigger they are harder they fall&f=false




So some say John, some say jeffries, some say walcott... i guess its what you believe. :thumbsup