Archie Moore from 1952-54 went 19-0 with 11KOs in that period. The wins are as as follows Harold Johnson Jimmy Slade Bob Dunlap Clarence Henry Clinton Bacon Joey Maxim Toxie Hall Leonard Dugan Sonny Andrews Nino Valdez Al Spaulding Frank Buford Joey Maxim Rinaldo Ansaloni Dogomar Martinez Joey Maxim Bob Baker Bert Whitehurst Harold Johnson That ends three year period (go on to beat Valdez and Olson in 55 before losing to Marciano). Question is What are some comparable great runs?
Ali 64-66 is impressive 8-0 7kos Liston Liston Patterson Chuvalo Cooper London Mildenberger Williams That’s some list. But 8 fights v 19...
Ehh def quality wins not sure it comes close accomplishment wise in a short span. 19 fights in two years...and going against two LHW champs three times total. Handful of top ten HWs and more solid LHW challengers. That’s a crazy run
Def not. Would be hard to replicate the feat. Have to be like a Tyson with a lot of short fights. Have to check his two year run before winning it
Ezz Charles, if we take from his apparent robbery from Violent Elmer, up to him beating walcott for the title, is comparable. Take away the robbery and his 7/8yr streak is one of the best if not THE best in history
Charles' run from his comeback after facing Marshall and Military up until he won the title took four years; which includes his entire light-heavyweight prime. From Sep. 1947 till Sep. '49 he beat: Archie Moore Jersey Joe Walcott Jimmy Bivins Lloyd Marshall Joey Maxim Sam Baroudi Fitzie Fitzpatrick Elmer Ray Joe Baksi Gus Lesnevich ... as well as winning the heavyweight title.
Harry Greb from 1918-1919: Mike Gibbons Mike O'Dowd (draw) Jack Dillon Leo Houck X2 Eddie McGoorty Jeff Smith Billy Miske Battling Levinsky X4 Mike McTigue X2 Willie Meehan Augie Ratner Soldier Bartfield X3 Bill Brennan X3
Now if people list a 2 year span, of course it might actually encompass nearly 3 years...Such as January 1980-December 1982. So if we want to be fair & accurate, let's decide if it can be that long as long as it happens to fall within calender years. OR decide it must be no more than 24 months. If so, why not make it regardless of whether it falls neatly from start to end dates within a calender year. Either way...How about SRR? I will, eave it to people more knowledgeable than me to select which of his runs is the best. But he fought 199 bouts, sometimes with incredible frequency. At one point he was 122-1-2! Only losing to Lamotta, who outweighed him by 16 lbs. Some of these guys were really good or Wolrd Class. Although nobody fights so many folks & all of them are excellent, just looking at teh record of his opponents, even at the start of his career they were pretty decent overall. And got better, but from October 1940 through October 1941, he had an insane 26 fights! Imagine literally fighting just over twice a month. In his final calender year, when he turned, 44, he had 14 fights! Then he was finally losing a fair amount, but somewhere between these dates & in his WW run you may well find the best ever run.
