that many fights and hes still rated? i could understand fighting that many fights as a amature. Guzman last i heard had alot of amature fights that you dont see on his record
****, nearly 4000 rounds, 97 years old, and he's still kicking? Someone find out that dude's secret. This is something I've been thinking a little bit about lately...how it seems old timers had that many more rounds but seemingly are living longer or have a better quality of life after fighting than more recent fighters. I haven't done any kind of study or anything on it, but it'd be interesting to see whether that's really the case or whether that's just what I notice more.
The previous best I found was a welterweight with like 3600 rounds so...I guess that's the new record holder.
Guess what would have happened, if he wouldn't have retired at age of 29 (before coming back after 6 years of inactivity for four fights)
ahh thanks for the update. :good I'm wagering he was also a World War II vet given the time of his hiatus
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:CW7OmEW1twgJ:www.wickware.com/Newsletters/Volume%25201/Vol1_Issue22_20feb00.doc+len+wickwar&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=uk There's something about him in there, just use Ctrl+F and search lol. EDIT: To save time I'll just copy it out. Leonard WICKWAR (Len) was born on March 11th 1911 in the Leicester area. He died on April or may 1980, aged 69 years. He was married to Phyllis, had a son named Leon, who was born approx. 1940, and a daughter named Pearl, who was born about 1942 In 1965 he was working as a machine packer for an Engineering Company in Leicester. Onto his Boxing career: By 1965 he had completed “nearly 500 bouts”. From 1926 to 1947 he had amassed a total of 467 contests, beating the best at his weight. From the “Boxing News” of June 20th 1980, Leonard was described by his Manager George Biddles, as “The Greatest Boxer who never won a major title”. However he did win many worthwhile contests. He became the featherweight Champion of the Midlands in 1933, winning a purse of £100, and “The Ted Salmon’s Gold Championship Belt”, (which was, unfortunately, later stolen from a Leicester Pub, where it was on display). His final Professional Boxing match was on Feb 6th 1947, when he was beaten by Danny Cunningham of Methill, in a fight at St. James’s Hill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne”.
Yeah I noticed that as well I counted how many times he fought in 1929 and it amounted to 27 I'm pretty sure he has other years where he had even more fights that that.
