Greatest two year streak in boxing?

Leonard beat Benitez, Duran and Hearns in less than two years.

 

People fought more often back then. It's not like Moore would be having 20 fights a year in the 80s.

 

Ezz Charles, if we take from his apparent robbery from Violent Elmer, up to him beating walcott for the title, is comparable. Take away the robbery and his 7/8yr streak is one of the best if not THE best in history

 

1918-19 Harry Greb

 

1922-23 Greb >

 

Charles' run from his comeback after facing Marshall and Military up until he won the title took four years; which includes his entire light-heavyweight prime. From Sep. 1947 till Sep. '49 he beat:

Archie Moore
Jersey Joe Walcott
Jimmy Bivins
Lloyd Marshall
Joey Maxim
Sam Baroudi
Fitzie Fitzpatrick
Elmer Ray
Joe Baksi
Gus Lesnevich

... as well as winning the heavyweight title.

 

Harry Greb from 1918-1919:

Mike Gibbons
Mike O'Dowd (draw)
Jack Dillon
Leo Houck X2
Eddie McGoorty
Jeff Smith
Billy Miske
Battling Levinsky X4
Mike McTigue X2
Willie Meehan
Augie Ratner
Soldier Bartfield X3
Bill Brennan X3

 

Quite a lot tbh

 

Trinidad from 99-01 Whitaker to Joppy. A little over two years but who cares.

 

Now if people list a 2 year span, of course it might actually encompass nearly 3 years...Such as January 1980-December 1982.
So if we want to be fair & accurate, let's decide if it can be that long as long as it happens to fall within calender years.

OR decide it must be no more than 24 months. If so, why not make it regardless of whether it falls neatly from start to end dates within a calender year.

Either way...How about SRR? I will, eave it to people more knowledgeable than me to select which of his runs is the best.
But he fought 199 bouts, sometimes with incredible frequency.
At one point he was 122-1-2!
Only losing to Lamotta, who outweighed him by 16 lbs.

Some of these guys were really good or Wolrd Class. Although nobody fights so many folks & all of them are excellent, just looking at teh record of his opponents, even at the start of his career they were pretty decent overall.
And got better, but from October 1940 through October 1941, he had an insane 26 fights!
Imagine literally fighting just over twice a month.

In his final calender year, when he turned, 44, he had 14 fights!
Then he was finally losing a fair amount, but somewhere between these dates & in his WW run you may well find the best ever run.