Most consecutive title changes

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  1. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Those of us Brits of a certain age remember "The curse of the Super Featherweights" when 14 consecutive British 130lbs title fights created a new champion for the then newly created title (16 if you include the initial 60s run of the belt).

    Is there a title in boxing that had more consecutive changes?
     
  2. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Not quite as many as the British 130lbs title, but from 1926 to 1935 the ownership of the world welterweight crown changed like this in consecutive fights:

    Pete Latzo
    Joe Dundee
    Jackie Fields
    Young Jack Thompson
    Tommy Freeman
    Young Jack Thompson
    Lou Brouillard
    Jackie Fields
    Young Corbett III
    Jimmy McLarnin
    Barney Ross
    Jimmy McLarnin
    Barney Ross
     
  3. Senya13

    Senya13 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The welterweight jinx started with Jackie Fields. Latzo had 2 successful defences and Dundee one defence.
     
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  4. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    WBA heavyweight title:
    Bowe-->Holyfield-->Moorer-->Foreman-->Seldon, one defense, then-->Tyson -->Holyfield.

    Or
    Ali-->Spinks-->Ali-->Tate-->Weaver
     
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  5. Bukkake

    Bukkake Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Yes, I'm aware Latzo had two defences - but his loss to Dundee started the change in ownership.

    I didn't know, that Dundee's 10 rounds ND win against Billy Drako counted as a real title fight (not listed as such in the last Ring Record Book)… but if it does, the streak of ownership change in consecutive fights obviously starts with Dundee losing to Fields. And in that case, Latzo should be scratched from my list.
     
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  6. Senya13

    Senya13 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    1927-07-13 The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH) (page 18)
    TONIGHT'S BOUTS.
    Joe Dundee, Baltimore, Md., and Billy Drako, Duesseldorf, Germany, main go, ten rounds, for the welterweight championship of the world; weight, 147 pounds at 3 p. m.


    1927-07-13 The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) (page 8)
    World's Championship Contest
    JOE DUNDEE
    Welterweight Champion of the World,
    vs.
    BILLY DRAKO
    Welterweight Champion of Germany
     
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