I KO'd one of the all time best fighters..I also licked Three hall of fame boxers, but fate intervened, and I never won a title...Who was I ?
Joe Shugrue. He stopped Benny Leonard and also defeated Freddie Welsh,Charley White and Owen Moran before retiring due to a detatched retina. Am I close??
young griffo,it is Joe Shugrue...That was a tough one...Shugrue from NJ was a great young fighter who had to retire at the age of twenty one,in 1915, due to an eye injury...b.b.
I thought of him too, BUT Charley White is not in the International Boxing Hall of Fame, so I didn't think it was him. Joe Shugrue had two brothers, Johnny and William, who were also boxers. Shugrue retired from boxing in 1915 due to a detached retina in his right eye that made the eye completely blind. Also, he suffered from a cataract that left him with only partial vision in the left eye. In his last two fights, both six rounders in Philadelphia, Shugrue claimed that he could barely see, and concluded that he must retire. (New York Times, 02-21-1960.) After retiring from the ring, Joe Shugrue worked in vaudeville, and later opened up a tavern and gymnasium in Waterbury CT in 1920. He was a truant officer in Jersey City from 1925 until September 1959. On June 15, 1969 Shugrue was inducted into the New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame as part of its first class, along with Mickey Walker, James J. Braddock, Frankie Nelson, Cal McCarthy, Johnny Buff, Jeff Smith, Frankie Burns, Johnny Dundee, Gus Lesnevich, Joe Jeannette, Jack De Mave, Cy Smith, Charlie Seiger, and Irish Bobby Brady.
Hmm... the first few names to put in my head were Lloyd Marshall, Jimmy Bivins, and Charley Burley. Marshall stopped Ezzard Charles. He also beat Joey Maxim, Holman Williams, Jake Lamotta, Charley Burley, Lou Brouillard, Teddy Yarosz, and Ken Overlin among others. He beat more than 3 HOFers though, so he isn't the right answer.
Bivins stopped Moore. He also beat Charles and Burley among others. Pretty sure he beat more than 3 HOFers as well.
