I was unbeatable til i killed my opponent---

What weight are we looking at Burt?

 

I found this which could be of interest:

http://www.ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_svinth_b_0700.htm

Complete history of ring deaths.

Quite sad looking through all those names

 

My God, that is a long list... very sad indeed.

 

This site is very good But I did find some mistakes. I even talked to them about it. They have George Gardiner killing Jack Root back in 1902, But Root lived until 1963, and even fought until 1906 and also fought Gardiner 3 more times.

Root down three times in 17th -- A wire report by Scripps erroneously reported that Root died following this bout.
The Manuel Velasquez Boxing Fatality Collection states Root died of injuries sustained in this bout.

I have added several deaths to this site as well. I believe it's something like 1500 now.

 

I was looking through that looking for the answer, then got sidetracked by all the deaths, mainly the pre-1890 ones.

 

It's amazing how information gets mixed up like that, especially since they fought again 3 times.

I was surprised at the huge list on there, I always thought the number of ring fatalities was around 500...never even imagined it was as high as that.

 

http://www.ejmas.com/jcs/jcsart_svinth_a_0700.htm

 

Thanks

 

Definitely quite sad, at least there hasn't been many which are recent, and we don't hear of it much nowadays. You have to respect anyone who steps in a ring really, even in smaller fights etc. It only takes a little carelessness from refs/official, sometimes even fighters, for these tragedies to take place. It's a great shame.