A blast from the past: Fidel LaBarba beat two Olympic champions - Frankie Genaro and Willie Smith A couple of more recent non-heavyweights:...
Jim Jacobs was obviously very knowledgeable when it came to boxing - but also a bit weird! I remember a Hugh McIlvanney interview with him,...
At only 21, Morris East is the world champion, who retired at the youngest age.
Joe Grim
Yeah, IBHOF really messed up, when they changed the categories a few years back! For exampel, they list Yoko Gushiken (pro career 1974-1981) in...
The specific attribute you mention in question 4... is it something, that is unrelated to his actual boxing career?
With the answer to question 7 in mind... you likely have the right guy (I would guess!).
Is it Pascual Perez?
Shame, shame on me for making a mistake like that! Of course Greb became champion by beating Wilson. This blunder will be hard to live down... so...
Harry Greb is the obvious answer! Greb took the middleweight crown from Mickey Walker in his 280th(!) fight - and had before that defeated 13...
I have 23 years for RJJ - which (unless someone proves me wrong) I believe is the record. Good job!
Yep - that's the idea!
See "edit" in my original post.
We're looking for the boxer, on whose record we can find the most active (at least one pro fight) calendar years, where not a single defeat has...
Burns is one of the few pre WW1 fighters, that looks (to me, anyway) reasonably "modern" in his approach. Though a very small HW, he would likely...
