2 HOFamers share 2 astounding coincidences

Would probably help to know what those coincidences are.

 

This question will probably only live until hh logs on - so we have to hurry!

 

Pep and Robinson?

 

This is intriguing; just the kind of question I like. But no more hints... I wan't to see if hh gets this (until then, I'll be thinking real Hard!).

 

Fred Aposti and Mike Weaver?

Jackie Kid Berg and Jose Luis Castillo?

Ron Stander and Pancho Villa?

 

SRR and Armstrong?

 

Well, that the fact that their going to BOTH be hall of famers narrows it down:

Jack Johnson and Edwin Rosario

 

When did Johnson and Rosario fight, again?

 

Was it one of these guys?

Muhammad Ali
Sammy Angott
Fred Apostoli
Alexis Arguello
Henry Armstrong
Carmen Basilio
Wilfred Benitez
Nino Benvenuti
Jackie (Kid) Berg
Jimmy Bivins
Joe Brown
Ken Buchanan
Charley Burley
Orlando Canizales
Miguel Canto
Michael Carbajal
Jimmy Carter
Marcel Cerdan
Antonio Cervantes
Bobby Chacon
Jeff Chandler
Jung-Koo Chang
Ezzard Charles
Curtis Cokes
Billy Conn
Pipino Cuevas
Roberto Duran
Flash Elorde
Jeff Fenech
George Foreman
Bob Foster
Joe Frazier
Gene Fullmer
Khaosai Galaxy
Victor Galindez
Kid Gavilan
Joey Giardello
Wilfredo Gomez
Humberto Gonzalez
Billy Graham
Rocky Graziano
Emile Griffith
Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Masahiko (Fighting) Harada
Larry Holmes
Beau Jack
Lew Jenkins
Eder Jofre
Ingemar Johansson
Harold Johnson
Ismael Laguna
Jake LaMotta
Sugar Ray Leonard
Lennox Lewis
Sonny Liston
Nicolino Locche
Duilio Loi
Danny Lopez
Ricardo Lopez
Joe Louis
Mike McCallum
Barry McGuigan
Rocky Marciano
Lloyd Marshall
Joey Maxim
Brian Mitchell
Bob Montgomery
Carlos Monzon
Archie Moore
Jose Napoles
Azumah Nelson
Terry Norris
Ken Norton
Ruben Olivares
Carl (Bobo) Olson
Carlos Ortiz
Manuel Ortiz
Carlos Palomino
Laszlo Papp
Willie Pastrano
Floyd Patterson
Eusebio Pedroza
Willie Pep
Pascual Perez
Eddie Perkins
Aaron Pryor
Dwight Muhammad Qawi
Sugar Ramos
Sugar Ray Robinson
Luis Rodriguez
Edwin Rosario
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Sandy Saddler
Vicente Saldivar
Salvador Sanchez
Max Schmeling
Michael Spinks
Dick Tiger
Jose Torres
Randy Turpin
Jersey Joe Walcott
Pernell Whitaker
Holman Williams
Ike Williams
Chalky Wright
Tony Zale
Daniel Zaragoza
Carlos Zarate
Fritzie Zivic
ou Ambers
Baby Arizmendi
Abe Attell
Max Baer
Jimmy Barry
Benny Bass
Battling Battalino
Paul Berlenbach
James J. Braddock
Jack Britton
Lou Brouillard
Panama Al Brown
Tommy Burns
Tony Canzoneri
Georges Carpentier
Kid Chocolate
Joe Choynski
James. J. Corbett
Young Corbett II
Young Corbett III
Johnny Coulon
Eugene Criqui
Les Darcy
Jack Delaney
Jack Dempsey (Nonpareil)
Jack Dempsey
Jack Dillon
Dixie Kid
George Dixon
Jim Driscoll
Johnny Dundee
Sixto Escobar
Jackie Fields
Bob Fitzsimmons
Tiger Flowers
Joe Gans
Frankie Genaro
Mike Gibbons
Tommy Gibbons
George Godfrey
Harry Greb
Young Griffo
Harry Harris
Len Harvey
Pete Herman
Peter Jackson
Joe Jeannette
James J. Jeffries
Jack Johnson
(Gorilla) Jones
Rocky Kansas
Louis (Kid) Kaplan
Stanley Ketchel
Johnny Kilbane
Frank Klaus
Fidel LaBarba
Sam Langford
George (Kid) Lavigne
Benny Leonard
Battling Levinsky
Harry Lewis
John Henry Lewis
Ted (Kid) Lewis
Tommy Loughran
Benny Lynch
Joe Lynch
Jack McAuliffe
Charles (Kid) McCoy
Packey McFarland
Terry McGovern
Jimmy McLarnin
Sam McVey
Sammy Mandell
Freddie Miller
Billy Miske
Charley Mitchell
Pedro Montanez
Owen Moran
Battling Nelson
Kid Norfolk
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien
Billy Papke
Billy Petrolle
Willie Ritchie
Maxie Rosenbloom
Barney Ross
Tommy Ryan
Jack Sharkey
Tom Sharkey
Jimmy Slattery
Mysterious Billy Smith
Billy Soose
Freddie Steele
Young Stribling
Charles (Bud) Taylor
Lew Tendler
Marcel Thil
Gene Tunney
Pancho Villa
(Barbados) Joe Walcott
Mickey Walker
Freddie Welsh
Jimmy Wilde
Jess Willard
Kid Williams
Harry Wills
Ad Wolgast
Midget Wolgast
Teddy Yarosz

 

I think we shouldn't be just guessing - we should also be able to explain the two coincidences.