I averaged 4 knockout losses per year for decades

Over a very long career, I only ever saw action into the seventh round 9 times.

I fought one future champion (twice), and a few contenders but scores of unknowns.

 

My mistake - he fought two future champs (one of them twice).

FYI everyone, Bukkake won this via PM already. He has deemed to leave it open if the rest of you want to puzzle it out (honor system here, if anyone happened to see the result before either of us edited our post kindly keep it to yourself).

 

I'm afraid so. :yep

I did round up (slightly) from 3.84 but it is indeed more than 80 KO losses.

 

You get the silver medal! :good

Simmie it is.

Sean O'Grady knocked him out six years before winning the WBA lightweight title, and Bones Adams picked up two decisions on his way up the ladder before winning the WBA super bantamweight title six years later.This ATG of tomato cans is notable for having the most KO losses in professional boxing history - just four shy of a hundred! The number could be even higher since he used aliases to dupe boxing commissions throughout the seventies, eighties and nineties.

 

That's interesting about Grim fighting both Gans and Johnson. He appears to have had an equally colorful career as a loser by trade, but had about the opposite reputation from Black (Grim was reportedly well renowned for his ability to soak up abuse).

To his credit, Simmie at least put together more than five wins (35 documented, against 162 losses). :yep Grim, though, beat up then-novice Luther McCarty and unofficially won by disqualification - which is probably better than any official victory of Black's. (on their records the McCarty bout is listed as a draw).

 

I'd be very interested to know myself, actually.

The State of Illinois (where he fought several times) declined to renew his expired license past '93 but he fought on for a few years more, mostly in Tennessee (where a good number of his wins occurred - in fact he finished up with a four-win streak there).

Tennessee did not have a standalone athletic commission enacted until 2008. :-(