Krzysztof Wlodarczyk Attila Szombathelyi 2-0 Vincenzo Rossitto 20-0-1 Otto Nemeth 2-0 Steve Cunningham 19-0 Francisco Palacios 20-0 Rakhim Chakhkiev 16-0 77 :thedevil1
Saul Alvarez Gabriel Martinez 17-0-1 Euri Gonzalez 17-0-1 Austin Trout 26-0 60 Come autumn he is looking to add the ultimate prize - Floyd Mayweather Jr. and his 44-0 mark, which could put Alvarez up to 104. Mayweather himself will be at 118 if he squashes the kid.
Daniel Ponce De Leon: Sod Koiketgym 25-0 Rey Bautista 23-0 Adrien Broner 19-0 Running total: 67 :scaredas:
Ilunga Makabu Gogita Gorgiladze 12-0 Tomas Lodi 9-0-1 Dmytro Kucher 21-0 42... The most impressive thing about Makabu's number (other than having netted 42 by the age of 25) is that all of them came in a row, having fought three consecutive unbeaten opponents and going 3-0 (2) against them. It's also mildly amusing that Makabu never had a zero of his own, having lost his debut.
Kiko Martinez David Casero 1-0 Bernard Dunne 24-0 Jhonatan Romero 23-0 48. Two of those were current or future world champions, and both in their prime. Both dominated and knocked out.
It is amazing how little and '0' can mean. As Martinez has shown he struggles against fringe contenders at 122.
Well in this case you're indicting both the zero and the world championship status as being empty... Kiko is a champ now... As for the level with which he has struggled...his losses are to a probable future world titlist (Frampton), a three-time world title challenger (Munroe) and a former belt holder (Ndlovu).
Errors: Tucker was 34-0. You missed Rick Spain. Spain is listed on Boxrec as 1-0 when he met Tyson but his actual pro record (I've just watched the original ESPN broadcast on "Mike Tyson's Greatest Hits Vol II") was 7-0 with 5 knockouts. So Tyson's actual # is 113. Rick Spain 7-0 John Alderson 3-0 Lorenzo Canady 3-0 Tony Tucker 34-0 Tyrell Biggs 15-0 Michael Spinks 31-0 Buster Mathis 20-0
Yeah because promoters never make anything up. Boxrec is not perfect, but for 'Developed World' fighters, they are getting there. They might of missed a fight or two from Spain's record, but it might be a defeat or two, and thus he becomes irrelevant to this thread...
Yes but if you look at the Boxrec page they acknowledge his prior experience in a footnote on the first bout listed. "Spain's first fight in three years". So they clearly aren't contending that it was his debut. It's just that whatever Boxrec editors worked on his page haven't done a thorough enough job researching his record...which, you know, is kind of theirjob and the site's ostensible purpose. I don't think it's a case of promoter contrivance when the commentators were readily accepting Spain as being a prospect in his eighth and not second pro bout, and when even the 'dissenting' source (Boxrec) doesn't actually contend that Steven Allred was his pro debut...
Jhonny Gonzalez Hugo Campos 1-0 Gabriel Arevalo 4-0 Roger Gonzalez 23-0 Gabriel Elizondo 17-0 Abner Mares 26-0-1 71
I am not disputing any of that. I am pointing out though that that 'prior experience' may of included a defeat, thus making Spain less useful for this thread. He may of been 7-0, but apart from someone telling the MC that was so, what other evidence is there to back this up? If we are just going on what we have heard from MC's over the years, then we need to look to Mexico. Because in Britain in the 80s and 90s seemingly every Mexican who came to fight in this Country, was at least 15-0, teak tough, and yet fell part inside three...