Undefeated Boxing Champions

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  1. la-califa

    la-califa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    How many Boxing Champions had initially retired undefeated? Whether or not if they had an ill advised comeback.
     
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    chatty Boxing Addict Full Member

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    your obvious ones are Marciano, Calzaghe, Ricardo Lopez, Sven Ottke, Floyd Mayweather and James J Jeffries
     
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  3. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    Khasosai Galaxy
     
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  4. AlFrancis

    AlFrancis Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Terry Marsh
     
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  5. Duodenum

    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    As near as I can determine, Bantamweight Champion Jimmy Carruthers may have been the first to retire with an unblemished record, bowing out at 19 (11)-0-0 in 1954.
     
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  6. mcvey

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    Jack McAuliffe, see the thread in the Lightweight tournament.
     
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  7. Duodenum

    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :patschDamn. I'd completely forgotten about McAuliffe, despite actually mentioning him in one of my earliest posts from 2007.:oops: Touche!:dead (Institutionalize me NOW! I'm really losing it.)
     
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  8. mcvey

    mcvey VIP Member Full Member

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    I learnt a bit after debating with McGrain ,and Boilermaker,McAuliffe was better than I at first thought.But then that's what this forum's about isnt it?
     
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  9. Drew101

    Drew101 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Add...

    Jimmy Barry (turn of the century "paperweight"/ aka flyweight champion/
    Ji-Won Kim (IBF Super bantamweight champion during the 80's.)
    Pichit Sithbanprachan (IBF flyweight champion during the 90's)
     
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  10. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    Galaxy has one loss.
     
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    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    yeh your right

    always thought he was unbeaten
     
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  12. teeto

    teeto Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    Joe Manley, i'm talking alphabet titlists here.
     
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  13. teeto

    teeto Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    Did Pryor retire before the Bobby Joe Young loss? Can't remember.
     
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  14. la-califa

    la-califa Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes, after the second Arguello fight. Both fighters retired. Pryor soon came back.
     
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  15. teeto

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    So he counts then?
     
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