Hardest run of consecutive fights

The other guys that he fought are what make it impressive. Which of those dont you think make things a hard run?

 

Carlos Monzon from 1971 - 1977 had an incredible 16 fight run, two blips but i think they are more than acceptable when looking at who they are sandwiched between. All title defenses and all thsi after coming off a Ring Magazine Fight Of The Year in 1970 against Benvenuti.



Rodrigo Valdez
Rodrigo Valdez
Gratien Tonna
Tony Licata
Tony Mundine
Jose Napoles
Jean Claude Bouttier
Emile Griffith
-------------Could be cut off here because of Roy Dale or continued including him.
Bennie Briscoe
Tom Bogs
Jean Claude Bouttier
Denny Moyer
------------Another place this could be cut off because of Fraser Scott but continuing.
Emile Griffith
Nino Benvenuti

 

between August 71 and december 74 Rafael Hererra fought
Chucho Castillo
Ruben Olivares
Enrique Pinder
Ruben Olivares
Rodolfo Martinez
Venice Borkorsor
Romeo Anaya and Rodolfo Martinez

 

Joe Calzaghe, 1997-2006.

 

Ketchel's run posted earlier in the thread is pretty ridiculous.

 

Manny Pacquiao for about the last 8 years:

Barrera x2
Morales x3
Marquez x2
Solis
De La Hoya
Cotto
Clottey
Hatton
Margarito
Mosley

That's pretty tough competition.

Harry Greb has to be up there too

 

consecutive it says: back to back. No I dont consider Lowery, Nardico, or Murphy particularly difficult in the history of consecutive fight runs. Ted Lowery didnt lost more fights than he won and had won two of his last 14 fights when he fought Maxim. Murphy was decent, not particularly great, somewhat protected/carefully matched. and Norkus was in a similar boat. Both those guys had lost to the best fighters they had faced who were in their primes and those guys they lost to were rarely if ever great. A lot of fighters in history can string together a couple of difficult wins, fight a journeyman, string together a couple of difficult wins, fight a journeyman etc etc. The point of the thread was to see who had the longest run of CONSECUTIVE difficult fights.

 

I would have thought that those two fights sandwiched in between the others made things a pretty difficult series of consecutive fights.

So it is only consecutive fights, how about this one:

Crouse,Smith, Smith, Clabby, Chip?

 

walcott had a pretty solid run of fights in the late forties...

maxim, ray, maxim, ray, maxim, louis, louis, charles

 

How long exactly can a run be until its not labeled a 'run' anymore?

 

beat me to it. i was going to say '98-'05.

 

more recently, i think de la hoya took on top competition. he had some gimmes here and there but he had a good run of opponents for most of his career.

 

Actually, if we're talking about literally back-to-back fights, Greb might not qualify as he tended to cram a lot of fights against B and C level fighters in between his big wins.

Here's one for consideration:

Archie Moore fought Harold Johnson (ATG future LHW champ), Nino Valdes (#1 rated HW contender), Bobo Olson (#1 MW in the world at that time), and Rocky Marciano (legendary ATG HW champ) in back-to-back fights.

 

You should extend this list back a few fights earlier, in which case it would read:

Stanislaus Loayza
Ray Miller
Joe Glick
Joe Glick
Ray Miller
Sergeant Sammy Baker
Sammy Mandell
Ruby Goldstein
Sammy Mandell
Young Jack Thompson
Al Singer
Billy Petrolle
Billy Petrolle
Billy Petrolle
Lou Brouillard
Benny Leonard
Sammy Fuller
Young Corbett
Barney Ross
Barney Ross
Barney Ross
Tony Canzoneri
Tony Canzoneri
Lou Ambers

...in which case we might well have a winner here.

 

Not exactly what the thread is asking but Armstrongs 10 month run between 1937 and 38 winning the three belts similtaneously must be the greatest period for any fighter in history.