A boxing trivia question

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  1. Jack Dempsey

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    I was reading a boxing bio from the 1960's and in it stated that only 3 HW's have fought in all the weight divisions as professionals

    Can you name them???!!??
     
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  2. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    1 has to be Carp.
    2 Perhaps Fitz.
    and 3, mmm Tommy Burns maybe/?
     
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  3. Jack Dempsey

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    You got 1:D
     
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  4. Dempsey1238

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    I just thowing a name because he fought nearly evey one. But Joe Grim?
     
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  5. Jack Dempsey

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    Niente
     
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  6. Nemesis

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    Yeh as demps stated, Carpentier started off at flyweight as a teenager and grew all the way to heavy, I am sure there was a fighter that fought in the 20's and died before he peaked, whom had fought in every weight class and had about 200 odd fights, I'll go find out
     
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  7. OLD FOGEY

    OLD FOGEY Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I thought I once heard Young Stribling. Did my memory betray me?

    What about Tommy Farr or Len Harvey?
     
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  8. Jack Dempsey

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    Thats 2!!, Thats probably who Nemesis means also, 1 more to go!!
     
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  9. Nemesis

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    goddamn you Old Fogey :twisted:

    he died in a motorcycle accident
     
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  10. Jack Dempsey

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    Just finishing his biography, very sad, seemed like a great fighter and a good man

    1 more to go!!!
     
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  11. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Harry Kid Matthews.
     
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  12. Jack Dempsey

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    Nope, The man in your username would be familiar with the fighter in question
     
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  13. Dempsey1238

    Dempsey1238 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Harry Greb was never a flyweight.

    Battling Levinsky is my best guess lol. but he was never a flyweight either.
     
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  14. Jack Dempsey

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    Nope and double nope
     
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  15. Nemesis

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    Gibbons?
     
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