Fighters who had a loss early but became unbeatable later on

Charlie zelenof

 

James Smith

 

Yep, he is definitely unbeatable in his delusional mind. I’ve even heard him say he was brainwashed when he told Elle Sechback that he lost to Wilder. I like how he always runs out the ring in fear.

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I don’t know about “unbeatable”, but here are some cases of long runs without losses:

Roberto Duran losing to Esteban a DeJesús in 1973, then going 7 years and over 40 fights without losing.

Carlos Monzon had some early losses, then finished his career fighting for about 11 years with no losses. I know there were some draws and wins that were supposed to controversial, thought I haven’t seen it.

Marvin Hagler went 11 years and 36 or so fights without a loss. Willie Monroe to Sugar Ray Leonard. By most accounts, Monroe was the only clear loss Hagler had in his career. The Leonard fight was very close and disputed to this day, he shouldn’t have lost that decision to Boogaloo Watts, and also the draw to Vito was BS.

Sugar Ray Robinson was 40-0 when he lost to Jake LaMotta, who was 16 lbs heavier. After that, Robinson didn’t lose for 8 years and was 129-1-2 when he lost to Randy Turpin. There supposedly were some debatable decisions between there, but officially Ray was 89-0-2 from the end of the 2nd LaMotta fight til the 1st Turpin bout.

 

Not unbeatable but came good at the end of his career and did well for himself.

Braddock.

 

The first name I thought of!

 

First to mention Loma

 

Bernard Hopkins

 

Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

 

Came in here to mention Monzon, but was beaten to the punch.

 

Marquez? He lost his debut match then had a steady run before losing again.

 

Carlos Monzon!

Good shout outs in the thread so far...

 

Looking at Badou Jacks record the other day which is an odd one who seems to have improved with age.

 

After Wladimir Klitchsko's loss against Brewster he went 10.5 years undefeated, and just over 10 years as undefeated HW champion of the world.

That is some comeback from 3 early career losses.