2023 has been a crazy year for boxing champions losing their title and unbeaten record

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  1. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    This year alone there’s been quite a number of previously unbeaten champions losing their title and 0.

    Shavkat Rakhimov (17-0-1, IBF champ)
    Murodjon Akhmadaliev (11-0, WBA champ)
    Josh Taylor (19-0, WBO champ)
    Stephen Fulton (21-0, WBO & WBC champ)
    Errol Spence Jr (28-0, WBA, WBC, & IBF champ)
    Sivenathi Nontshinga (12-0, IBF champ)
    Sunny Edwards (20-0, IBF champ)

    And then we also have other previously unbeaten fighters who also lost their 0.
    Jeremias Ponce
    Rey Vargas
    Shuichiro Yoshino
    Joe Joyce
    Ryan Garcia
    Vincenzo Gualtieri
    Shohjahon Ergashev
    Demetrius Andrade
     
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  2. Maidanas Gun Tattoo

    Maidanas Gun Tattoo Well-Known Member Full Member

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    It’s been a good year of fighters not caring about record but proving themselves against other good fighters.
     
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  3. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member Full Member

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    We got the best vs "the best" this year. 2024 will be even better.
     
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  4. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Haney should be on that list too. Should've lost his unbeaten record and all four of his titles in his backyard to an old well past prime leprechaun he weighed 20lbs + more than and had a near six in reach advantage over. Creep
     
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  5. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Honestly, not one person on that list losing should be shocking or crazy to anyone. Taylor overstayed his welcome at 140, Joyce could only block punches from KO artists for so long before it caught up to him and Spence a vicious accident victim looked like a shell of a man going into the ring against Crawford when stylistically even a healthy version would have lost. The rest of those so-called upsets were not hard to predict, in fact I predicted more than half of them losing
     
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  6. Flo_Raiden

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    It’s a great sign knowing that we are finally seeing more fighters fighting the best and not having to keep latching on to the 0. 2024 will be even better, as @drenlou mentioned.

    Now we have the following undefeated champions at the moment:

    Tyson Fury
    Oleksandr Usyk
    Terence Crawford
    Naoya Inoue
    Junto Nakatani
    Jaron Ennis
    Devin Haney
    Gervonta Davis
    Shakur Stevenson
    Rafael Espinoza
    Dmitry Bivol
    Artur Beterbiev
    David Benavidez
    David Morrell
    Jesse Rodríguez
    Jai Opetaia
    Tim Tszyu
    Janibek Alimkhanuly
    Joe Cordina
    Arsen Goulamirian
    Artem Dalakian

    Someone’s 0 will have to go next year.
     
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  7. lepinthehood

    lepinthehood When I'm drinking you leave me well alone banned Full Member

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    Good.
     
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