Boxing Quiz Questions Thread

Who's the first latin fighter to fight for the World Heavyweight Championship?

 

Monzon and Napoles in 1974 comes to mine.

 

Firpo

 

Buster Douglas versus Evander Holyfield?

 

Yea, that was an easy one.

Luis Angel Firpo was the first latin Heavyweight Challenger. Who Challenged " The Manassa Mauler" Jack Dempsy.

 

2 questions still need answers:

What 3 brothers all scored knockouts on the same card?

When was the 1st time both the mandatory 8 count rule and 3 knockdowns in 1 round terminating the bout was used in a Championship match? Who were the boxers?


Both happened in the early to mid-1960's.

 

Is it Gene, Jay & Don? I won't reveal the last names just yet...

 

No, its not the Fullmer's

 

I know this isn´t what you meant, since you said 1960`s, but I knew I saw 3 brothers knocking out their opponents on the same card recently and found it:
Ryan, Liam and Michael Walsh (all giving their pro debut):
http://www.boxrec.com/show_display.php?show_id=538549

I haven´t found proof those 3 are brothers, but I am pretty sure, that they said they were, when I saw it...

 

DAMN!! I was sure it was the Fullmer's! This is a good one!

 

It should have read the 1st 3 brothers. Actually, this is a hard one because BoxRec doesn't even have it. By the way I am one of the editors on BoxRec and I would have put it in BUT I don't know the names of 2 of their opponents. In fact they only list 1 bout on that card which took place in Dominican Republic.

 

I have to leave pretty soon, as I am going to the circus so I will leave you with one other question.

Who fought in the 1st bout that the ring announcer announced the scores?

Here's the other 2 again:

What 3 brothers all scored knockouts on the same card?

When was the 1st time both the mandatory 8 count rule and 3 knockdowns in 1 round terminating the bout was used in a Championship match? Who were the boxers?

Both happened in the early to mid-1960's.

 

Oh that. I was hoping you'd forgot. I'll look again this weekend. There's still a couple of places I havent checked.

I still cant believe that I'm the only person out of all the boards that has seen this article.

 

you lead a life of fun

you are the NJ HOF head now you retired and worked at the circus what an amazing colourful life

 

I have been the President of the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame for over 23 years and their Historian for approx. 29. You can go to the following web site and read more.

http://www.wdyt.com/henry.shtml