Retired 3 world champs!

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  1. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Name a fighter (or fighters?) who retired 3 world champions, recognized by BoxRec.
     
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    Joe Louis "retired" Jack Sharkey, Jimmy Braddock, and John Henry Lewis.
     
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    Hookie Affeldt... Referee, Judge, and Timekeeper Full Member

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    nope Braddock fought once more, hold on
     
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    Larry Holmes retired Ali (but he later came back), Bonecrusher, and Weaver.
     
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    hhascup Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I just got back from Ring Announcing an Amateur Show in New Jersey and I am tired, But I do know that Ken Buchanan retired 3 . Laguna, Ortiz and Carlos Hernandez.

    Alexis Arguello retired Marcel, Watt and Costello.
     
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    Buchanan is of course correct (I knew, you would get that one!).

    When I say retired, I naturally mean for good - so I don't count Arguello, since Costello made a comeback several years later.

    I don't know, if there are others in this category (I can't think of any).
     
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    Hector 'Macho' Camacho - a nobody in Otillio Villareal, and two well past there best but still ATG's Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard. Not the greatest of retirements to brag about causing in hindsight but looks bloody good on boxrec.
     
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    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes, Duran and Leonard is a fine pair to have retired - but I don't believe Ortilio Villarreal was ever a world champion.
     
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    Ricky Hatton retired Kostya Tszyu, Freddie Pendleton...... did Lazcano ever win a world title?
     
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    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Not one that is recognized by BoxRec.
     
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    We'll see what happens in the next few years, but it looks like Danny Green may have retired three - Manny Siaca, Julio Cesar Dominguez and Stipe Drews. We'll see if Siaca and Dominguez actually stay retired though.
     
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    a bunch of guys have 2 btw