Boxing's Iron Men: How did they win 100 Fights?

Fight a lot of bums in between. Lets take for example one of my fav fighters, Duran.

Can you imagine our elite fighters of today taking fights like these? Even as a tuneup?
1986-01-31 163 Manuel Zambrano 1-4-0
1987-05-16 163½ Victor Claudio 162½ 10-4-0
1980-02-24 147½ Wellington Wheatley 148 7-2-0
1980-01-13 146½ Joseph Nsubuga 148 15-1-0
1977-08-06 141¼ Bernardo Diaz 139¾ 2-4-0
1976-10-15 134¼ Alvaro Rojas 135 4-4-0
1976-05-04 139½ Saoul Mamby 138¾ 18-8-5


Line all those guys up for Shane Mosley, he would knock all of them out in 1 night and improve his record to 53-5-0 from 46-5-0.

Their just examples, there's a whole lot more guys who didnt belong in the same ring as him on his record, take them all out and he would have a normal looking record...ie 50-60 fights or so.

 

Well, boxrecs records arent complete.

But, simply enough- fight a lot.

 

fight a tons and tons of Bums.

 

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Maybe not, but if their record is registering 2-4-0 it is unlikely that they just happened to miss the 30 other fights the guy won actually making him 36-4-0. If anything, they missed out the 20 other fights split 10 wins and losses making the guy 12-14-0...still not very impressive.

Can you imagine Mosley, Mayweather or Pac fighting someone like that?

 

nicely done.

 

He did that, I saw a documentary about it.... It's called "Diggstown."

 

You know people really under rate those fighters with losing records. There were so many great fighters back then that even good fighters lost regularly. There was so much more competition. Even those guys with losing records were not the 'bums of today'. If you watch tape if its availible of any of the old time greats fighting these guys you will know that they were better than their record suggests.

 

Some of those records arent complete and Mamby became a titlist after he fought Duran.

 

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"Hes bigger, tougher, faster, younger than you are. He hasnt fought 22 rounds today but remember this....You are black!"

 

I love the idea of a fighter fighting 5-6 times a year, but fighting 3-4 C/D level fighters and 2 world caliber opponents. Not only does it serve as training for the fighter in question but at least we get to see the best fighters in the world more often than we're used to seeing. Julio Cesar Chavez was really the last of a dying breed in that regard. It also seems to me as if the posters who have contributed on this thread are almost making light of such a feat. Fighting 3-4 "Bums" and then 2 world caliber opponents in one year is certainly more taxing than what the elite fighters of today are doing, who get paid inordinate amounts of money for fighting 2-3 times a year.

 

He also lost 6 fights of his last 13 fights before Duran and lost 3 times in his next 6 fights. What Duran achieved there, 9 other fighters has achieved in the space of 19 fights.

It wasnt an impressive win, by any stretch of imagination. Perhaps he pulled himself together bit later and became a good fighter, but whilst fighting Duran, he was in the middle of a streak of losses.