Is PBF 1st ever to retire without having ever taken a legitimate knockdown?

Zab got a clear KD against him in their fight making Floyd's glove touch the canvas briefly with a counter, but the referee missed it. And when he broke his hand against Carlos Hernandez, his glove touched the canvas then, which was called a KD.

 

sven "dick turpin" ottke? :think

 

And a legitimate WW opponent. (while Champion)

 

I agree I don't think that the official KD against Hernandez was really that meaningful but it is cancelled out by the fact that Zab was not given proper credit for his KD as he should have.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think Lamotta was ever down.

 

LaMotta was down against a light heavyweight contender by the name of Danny Nardico towards the end of Jakes career.

 

i maybe totally of the mark did corley not have mayweather down or was he just hurt?

 

Just hurt

 

We are all forgettign the obvious answer to this question. Wayne Mccolough

 

vitali has never tasted canvas (but look at the troy roberts fight)

 

Didn't he say he's still fighting on?

 

Vitali is fighting again soon if he can stay free of injuries, so the deal isn't really sealed on him yet.

 

Kid Gavilan is said to have never been floored.

 

I'm sure there are plenty of guys who retired without ever having been knocked down, just history doesn't necessarily remember their names. There are so many guys who aren't ATG quality fighters who are on the verge of retiring who have never been down (McCall, Baldomir, McCullough, Tackie, Glen Johnson - although he was once stopped on TKO without going down, etc.), and so many other second and third tier fighters who have only been down once on flash knockdowns (N'Dou, Andrade, Ding, Marion Wilson, etc.) that I have to imagine there have been many others, probably some of whom didn't even end their careers with winning records.

One prominent one who was never knocked down was George Chuvalo, thought to maybe have the best chin ever. Fought all the heavy hitters in the 70's, never touched the canvas once.