Greatest Achievements in Boxing?

Becoming a hw champion in the early 20th cenury while beeing black is an accomplishmen in itself ... and never repeated.

Becoming a world champ at age 17.

Becoming the hw champ of he world with age 21.

 

:goodi'll agree with all these and add big george foreman's two heavyweight titles.:bbb

 

First things that came to mind

12 year reign of Joe Louis + retiring as champion.

Duran winning the Middleweight title 17 years after the Lightweight title.

Pac winning titles in 7 divisions, 4 of them linear.

 

patterson first man to become hw champ twice, ali first man to become hw champ 3 times.
archie moore holding the most ko's (i believe 138 or something like that). Pep winning a round without even throwing one punch. and so on and so on
man there are so manny things that can be marked as a great achievement. i think it's impossible to write them all down.

 

It's a myth, nothing more.

Anyways, at the moment I'm infatuated with "Terrible" Terry McGovern's feat at the turn of the century, probably because I've been discussing it so much lately. The miniature Mike Tyson of the day KO'd all 3 world champions from Bantamweight to Lightweight within a span of 10 months. During that time span he went 5-0 in title bouts at Bantam and Feather (all wins coming by way of KO) and 20-0-1 altogether, winning 18 of those bouts by KO with 16 of them coming within the first 3 rounds. Amazing.

 

It's an urban myth.

edit: beaten.

 

Craig Bodzianowski coming back from losing part of a leg to get an alphabet title shot.

 

Hopkins keepin his division on lock for like 10years

 

Being champion at one weight for a long time Joe Louis, Benny Leonard and Carlos Monzoon as well as Bernard Hopkins comes to mind. Not that I don't think winning championships in more than one weight class isn't impresive. however as the body grows and gets older it tends to gain weight there fore it is only natrual to move up in weight. Staying at one weight for a long time becomes more diffcult as their career goes on.

 

Pep winning a round without throwing a punch was always a lame story.

 

Greg Haugen beating Camacho stoned.

 

Michael Spinks moving up to Heavyweight to beat an undefeated Larry Holmes. Holmes wasn't prime, but neither was Spinks - operating way above his best weight.

 

This is the one that does it for me. Simply amazing!!!