Is this fighter's record the strongest ever? Tunney Loughran Slattery T Gibbons M Gibbons Wilson Flowers Norfolk Allentown Joe Gans Brennan Madden Gunboat Smith Downey Mantell Bogash Ratner Renault Mctigue McCoy Levinsky Rosenbloom Dillon O Dowd Chip McGoorty Jeff Smith Walker 1 Heavyweight Champ 6 L Heavy Champs 11 Claimants to Middle weight Title 1Welter Champ At least 7 ATG's on the list.And usually conceding weight to his opponents ,anything up to 30lbs. Well, what do you say?
I would go with Maxie Rosenbloom. He fought 82 different boxers a total of 172 times, that were rated in the Top 10 at one time or another. Opponent-Time Rated-Months Rated-Highest Rating-Record Against Jimmy Delaney 2/25-2/27 3 8 - 0-1-0 Jack Delaney 2/25 –1/29 10 1 - 0-1-0 Young Stribling x2 2/25-2/33 54 1 - 0-2-0 Jimmy Slattery x7 2/25-2/32 50 1 - 3-4-0 Leo Lomski x6 2/26-4/31 34 1 - 3-1-2 George Manley x2 4/28-4/33 29 1 - 0-2-0 King Levinsky 11/30-8/36 52 2 - 1-0-0 Jim Braddock x2 2/28-4/38 48 C - 1-0-0 (1 NC) Cuban Bobby Brown x4 7/28-10/29 12 5 - 4-0-0 Tiger Jack Payne x4 9/28-8/29 9 6 - 3-0-1 Pete Latzo x2 2/25-7/31 28 C - 1-1-0 Lou Scozza x7 8/28-5/34 58 1 - 4-3-0 Charley Belanger x3 5/28-10/31 27 5 - 3-0-0 Fred Lenhart x3 9/29-5/38 41 2 - 1-1-1 Billy Jones x3 8/29-12/34 49 1 -2-1-0 Dave Maier 1/32-8/32 8 1 - 0-1-0 Al Gainer x2 11/30-2/42 98 1 - 1-0-1 Bob Olin 12/30-2/39 47 C - 0-1-0 Joe Knight x2 8/31-5/36 54 1 - 0-1-1 Adolf Heuser 4/32-2/40 40 1 - 1-0-0 Bob Godwin x7 12/31-5/35 36 1 - 3-1-3 Bob Pastor 12/36-2/43 67 1 - 0-0-1 Jimmy Adamick x2 2/38-2/39 8 6 - 1-1-0 Lou Nova 2/38-8/45 50 1 - 1-0-0 John Henry Lewis x5 1/33-1/40 86 C - 3-2-0 Tony Shucco x2 8/32-2/43 48 1 - 1-1-0 Clyde Chastain x3 4/30-6/34 5 1 - 0-1-2 Mickey Walker x2 2/25-9/34 67 C - 1-1-0 Johnny Miler x3 1/35-2/35 2 7 - 2-0-1 Leo Kelly x4 3/35-9/37 19 1 - 3-0-1 Tiger Jack Fox x3 6/37-11/44 36 1 - 1-1-1 Tiger Flowers x3 2/25-2/28 4 1 - 1-0-2 Johnny Wilson x2 2/25-2/25 1 5 - 2-0-0 Jock Malone 2/25-12/29 4 6 - 0-1-0 Dave Shade x2 2/25-2/35 78 1 - 2-0-0 Roland Todd 2/26-2/26 1 9 - 1-0-0 Phil Kaplan x2 2/26-9/30 18 2 - 2-0-0 Tommy Milligan 2/26-9/28 4 2 - 0-1-0 Jack McVey x2 2/26-4/31 37 3 - 2-0-0 Frankie Schoell x6 2/25-6/29 15 6 - 3-1-2 Ace Hudkins 2/26-2/32 36 1 - 1-0-0 Harry Ebbets 4/28-8/33 42 1 - 1-0-0 Harry Greb 2/25-2/26 2 1 - 0-1-0 Owen Phelps 10/31-12/32 3 7 - 1-0-0 Art Weigand 2/26-8/28 6 7 - 0-1-0 60-33-19 (1 NC) = 113 Roscoe Toles x1 6/37-5/43 49 4 - 1-0-0 Joe Anderson x4 2/27-12/28 6 4 - 3-0-1 Yale Okun xx2 2/26-6/32 8 2 - 1-0-1 Osk Till x2 2/27-4/29 2 6 - 2-0-0 Lee Ramage x4 5/32-5/37 21 7 - 1-2-1 Leroy Haynes x2 4/36-2/39 11 3 - 2-0-0 Larry Johnson x3 2/30-2/32 16 1 - 3-0-0 thats well in excess of 100 fights against the best middles, light heavies and heavies. Plenty of Hall of Famers as well. 73–35-22 (1 NC) = 131 He also fought the following boxers that were rated in the Top 10 at one time or another. Young Johnny Burns – 0-0-1 George Courtney – 1-0-0 Allentown Joe Gans – 1-0-0 Frank Moody – 1-0-0 Young Tony Marullo – 1-0-0 Tiger Thomas – 1-0-0 Harry Dillon – 1-0-0 Leo Williams – 2-0-0 Joe Sekyra – 1-0-0 George Hoffman – 1-0-0 Abie Bain – 1-0-0 Joe Banovic – 2-0-0 Dick Daniels – 1-0-0 Gordon Fortenbberry – 2-0-0 Don “Red” Barry – 1-0-0 Natie Brown - 1-0-0 KO Christner - 1-0-0 Rosy Rosales - 2-0-0 Wilson Dunn - 1-0-0 Charley Massera – 1-1-0 Leroy Brown - 1-0-0 Frank Rowsey – 3-0-0 Oscar Rankin - 1-0-0 Ford Smith - 1-0-0 Hank Hankinson – 0-2-0 Alberto Santiago Lovell – 0-1-0 Bob Nestell - 1-0-0 Al Ettore - 1-0-0 Battling Bozo – 1-0-3 Patsy Perroni - 1-0-0 106-39-26 (1 NC) = 172 That is by far the most Top 10 contenders that 1 boxer ever fought. The next highest is 109. If you go by percentage wise, Ali is on top with over 80% (49 out of 61). He also beat Ted Kid Lewis, BUT even though Lewis was a Champion, he was never rated in the Top 10 by Ring because they didn't have ratings until 1925 and Lewis was past his prime by then.
It would look fantastic if most had been legitimate WINS. Not ND, NC etc. I wont bother taking time to look mate, but I'd freely suggest there'd no more than 10 KO's in the list also. Not to mention most, if not all would have been over the 10 round distance.
I feel guilty enough when its slips out when I'm typing it on ESB. When did the fights in a boxers career stop being his "record"?
Impressive stuff hhascup, thank you. I still plump for Langford though. Started at 140 beat great heavyweights. These things are relative.