Professional boxing records that impress you

Jack Britton's streak of 341 consecutive fights without ko defeat.

Harry Greb going 45-0 in a single year (1919).

 

Joe Louis stands out for me.

 

Jimmy Wilde, Packey McFarland and Tommy Ryan have very impressive wins to losses (from their known records) 139-4-1, 106-1-6, and 89-2 (I don't think it's right to count his final "loss", and a lot of the draws were more lke exhibitions, and I've never went through them all) respectively. The incomplete records make the opposition hard to assess though.

 

Word, if he didn't come back from his 1st retirement, I have no doubt he goes down as the consensus no.1 heavyweight

 

Monzon (of course)
SRR
Pep
Locche
Emile Griffith's record has always impressed me due to his many career 15 rounders...oddly enough, that's a big deal to me.
Greb
Chavez
Lennox Lewis
Louis
Olivares
Bazooka Gomez
Maxie Rosenbloom
Tommy Loughran
Jofre

There'll be more later on

 

A few less obvious ones:

Duilio Loi: 115-3-8; all career losses avenged

Barney Ross: 55-1-1 streak with both blemishes avenged, 3 titles at different weights, and 8 wins over Hall of Famers.

Ezzard Charles: 39-1 streak against almost exclusively world class opposition, leading to the heavyweight championship of the world. Wins over Moore x 3, Bivins x3, Maxim x2, Walcott x2 and Louis, to name a few. Only loss to Elmer Ray avenged by stoppage.

 

There was a featherweight who always impressed me when it came to competition and what the glossy records really mean. He fought out of the west coast in the early to mid '60s and his name was Danny Valdez. i've met him a few times and thought he was a real good guy. He had a little motto he stood by where he said, "Don't show me the knockouts you have, show me who you fought." Anyways, there is a fight on his record that I find amazing. He takes on the #1 contender Ricardo Gonzalez who had a record of 95-5-6 while his own record was 14-5. A no-brainer, right? Except that Danny had already fought Dwight Hawkins (twice), Juan Ramirez (twice), Bobby Cervantes, Felix Cervantes and a young Manny Elias (twice). So he was already in the deep end of the pool very early. Long story short, he beats Gonzalez and then has the audacity to repeat the win. Now that is the kind of record that impresses me.

 

Pac winning titles from flw to lmw is fantastic. Not to mention that he won the lmw title by a brutal beat down.

 

It wouldn't have made any difference. The losses against Charles and Rocky don't count more against Louis than Ali's losses against Spinks and Holmes does against him in anyone's mind.

 

It shouldn't make a difference, but I disagree that it wouldn't make a difference. I just think 50 something and 1 record with his only loss avenged by a first round knockout would make him immovable from the top spot.

 

Gorilla Jones, 150 fights, zero ko losses

Maxie Rosenbloom, 300 fights, 2 Ko losses

Harry Greb, 300 fights, 2 Ko losses

Ray Robinson, 200 fights, 1 Ko loss w asterisk.

 

Not true. Louis lost to Rocky on television when the medium was brand. More saw him in that fight than practically any other and getting brutally KOed did impact a generation on Louis who never saw him in his prime.

 

Wilfredo Gomez 32 straight kos, with 16 of them title defenses.

Carlos Zarate 52/0 w 51 kos.