I don't know how correct I may or may not be but I thought Wilfredo Gomez held the rec. for most KO's in a row for a world champ with 32. It may be most defenses.... ... also, Puertorican boxer Wilfred Benitez holds the rec. for youngest fighter ever to win a world championship, did so at the age of 17 !!
Been looking it up and you might be right.... what the hell now! I had read that in Ring Magazine, so i went to make sure i read it right and sure enough thats what they put.... im gonna go check again :twisted: Still, about what you say... i didnt know that eather lol.... thank you :good
So to recap... - Joe Walcott fought men from lightweight all the way to heavyweight. - He is the person Arnold Raymond Cream, who you know better as "jersey joe walcott" named himself after. - He actually coined the phrase "the bigger they are the harder they fall." OR DID HE????? 1897 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&gl=us It was Joe Walcott, the Barbados Demon, welterweight champion of the world from 1901-1904, who actually coined the phrase "the bigger they are the harder they fall." Bob Fitzsimmons certainly popularized the saying before he faced Jim Jeffries, but it was Walcott who first said it. The phrase belonged to Walcott, who despite his short stature was extremely successful against much larger and heavier opponents. He had fantastic stamina and durability as well as a proven punch. A natural welterweight, he was one of the greatest "pound for pound" fighters in boxing history and fought men weighing from lightweight to heavyweight during his career. http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&gl=us Bob Fitzsimmons had proven himself to be the greatest middleweight of his era, a fearsome puncher with a veteran?s skills, before moving up and taking on some of the best big men in the game. With his fourteenth round knockout of Corbett in 1897, he had become the only middleweight champ to ever win the heavyweight title. It was he who invented and proved the saying, ?The bigger they are, the harder they fall.? Such was not true, he learned, with Jeffries. http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&gl=us Quote Verifer says http://books.google.com/books?id=d6J...20fall&f=false - Mayorga once said Oscar is a great fighter, he loves what he has done for latinos and the only problem with oscar is oscar is not as handsome as him. I believe that was leading up to Hoya vs Mosley 2. - Jersey Joe Walcott fought the heavyweight legend Joe Louis very-very strongly in 1947 and 1948. 10 years later, when Louis prepared for the fight vs Max Schmelling, Walcott was hired as his sparring partner. Walcott then was fired after working for 2 days only, because he knocked down Louis 3 times in a training. - Mike Tyson wears black trunks in his all fights? He wears the black trunks in the ring to show his deepest condolence for the passing away of his respected trainer, Cus d'Amato. This is a humane side of a Mike Tyson. - Willie Pep was paid only at 3 bucks per day as a sparring partner for Manuel Ortiz in 1938. Six years later, he fought Ortiz in Boston. Pep won in a 10 rounds duel, and he received US$ 20,000. - Gerald mcCleland vs Jay Bell is noted as the shortest world title match ever in the Guiness Book of Record. - Fernando Vargas is the youngest amature national champion in history (last time i checked) and is the youngest 154lb champion in history. - Mike Tyson earned around $12 million for his 91 second knockout of Michael Spinks in June 1988-that worked out at $132,000 per second! - David Diaz actually beat Judah to make it on the Olympic team - Mosleys says in the second Oscar fight his hands were hurting so bad he had to get a cortisone shot before the fight. - Mosleys high score in bowling is 242 - Harry Haft was a concentration camp boxing champion, who often was forced to fight to the death with his opponents by the nazi's. He went on to become a challenger to Rocky Marciano. - Ken Norton attended Northern Mississippi State University on a football scholarship before joining the Marine Corps, where he took up boxing, and became a three time All Marine heavyweight champion. - Ali vs Norton was the last fight to be held at yankee stadium. - Jeff Lacy dreamed he was going to lose to JC - Edwin Valero has 25 knockouts in 25 fights.... here are some other knockout streaks Acelino freitas had 29 Vitali Klit had 27 John 'The Beast' Mugabi had 26 Vargas 17 and to show you it sometimes really has nothing to do with how good a puncher you are Trinidad had only 5 consecutive stoppages to start off his career Tyson had 18 Marcaino 16 - When Oscar was a kid at school, the teacher asked what they wanted to be when they grow up. Some said doctor, astronaut and so on. Oscar said he wanted to be an olympic champion. Everyone started laughing. - That Tyson, despite being a native of NYC, only headlined at the Garden once - Dwight Muhammad Qawi fought his first top 10 opponent in prison Let me know if you see mistakes Thanks for the info guys I love little tidbits of lesser known things like this lol...
If im wrong please correct.. just found these ones while doin a search through google to find some more facts i didnt know so i could add... - Emile Grifith has fought the most championship round (339) - Joe Loius has the most successful consecutive title defense with 25, his reign started in June of 1937 and ended 11 years and 7 months later -Archie Moore raked up 129 wins by KO during his career - Jimmy Wilde holds the record for the longest undefeated streak with 98 wins before his first defeat in 1923 (**EDIT** after a quick look on boxrec im pretty sure he fought alot of bums to get his record.. when he was 82-0 -2 he fought Albert Bouzonnie who was 0-2-0 at the time) - John L Sulivan became the first official recognized Heavyweight champion of the world when he defeated Dominick McCaffrey on August 29 in 1885 - The first fighter to hold 3 titles in 3 different weight classes simultaneousy was Henry Armstong. He held the featherweight title in 1937 , won the lightweight title in 1938 and the welterweight title also in 1938. This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected
The longest KO streak came from an unheralded fighter named Lamar Clark at 41. He was stopped by Ali in 2 rounds.
George Charpientier turned pro at age 16 and fought in all 8 traditional weight classes. He started as a flyweight, climaxed his career as a lightheavyweight champ then ended it with a loss to Jack Dempsey.
TB The white plauge. 1894-91 Jack "Nonpareil" Dempsey*, lost to Fitz because of TB. * A great and forgotten fighter. With out TB Fitz, would not then have been middle champ and for so long. Don't know how many matches they might have fought. But Dempsy was really the better man. Heavy weight Jack Demsey's real name was not Jack Dempsey. He took the name of the best fighter of the era before. Fitz was one and only(4 belt) Champ in three weight classes. Middle, Heavy and Lt. Heavy 1903 the first year of having a Lt. Heavy champ..he was the third champ that year.. Before that 160+ was a heavy weight. So the 167 pound Joe Choynski, was a heavy weight and fought bigger heavies...a most underrated man. Je Gans goes 42 rounds with Battling Nelson while dying of TB. 1893 When Sullivan fought Corbett it was $10,000 side bet and $25,000 purse. Winner..or in the case of the side bet..which was normally your gang's bet vs his gangs bet...$35,000 to the winner. 1894 early...Fitz Us and Aussi middle weight champ fights Hall the English Middle Champ, purse of $40,000, loser to get $2,500. Fitz wins... Time moves on and people get bigger, in my research of the Civil War, a man was thought Humongus at 6'3". nathan Hale was considered a big man at half a hand less than six foot or 5'10". And was a strong man, who could hop a fence his height with one hand on it. Once there was only lightweight, middleweight and Heavy weight. Then came welter.
Yankee Sullivan, and Smoke Morrison were the Heavy weight Champions long before The Boston Strong boy... Yankee Sullivan was responsible for the banning of Boxing in the US, when he beat to death some one who would not quit, even with his corner begging him. A very long fight. The next day the fallen figher's mother shows up, in tow from the reporter and asks @ "What have you done to my son." The upper-milddle classes get laws passed making boxin Illegal. Sulivan hung himslef in his cell, fearing the vigalanties of San Francisco would break him out to lynch him the next day. Boxing was dirty and linked with crooked gamblers heavy...and the gambler's gangs. Smoke Morrison had his own big gang, just like Poole another big time fighter of the 1840's, both fought for control of the NY underworld when not fighting in a ring. Yankee was champ, having beaten the English, American and Ausie champs.Some were massive long and brutal, bare fisted, brawls. I hate it...I had yesterday on my desk a clipping of Yankee Sullivan's fights, now it's some where in a box of files...I did not need it....I got so much old time cut it out, put it in a paper file and bury the file until needed.
So to recap... - Mike Tyson wears black trunks in his all fights? He wears the black trunks in the ring to show his deepest condolence for the passing away of his respected trainer, Cus d'Amato. This is a humane side of a Mike Tyson. - Willie Pep was paid only at 3 bucks per day as a sparring partner for Manuel Ortiz in 1938. Six years later, he fought Ortiz in Boston. Pep won in a 10 rounds duel, and he received US$ 20,000. - Gerald mcCleland vs Jay Bell is noted as the shortest world title match ever in the Guiness Book of Record. - Fernando Vargas is the youngest amature national champion in history (last time i checked) and is the youngest 154lb champion in history. - Mike Tyson earned around $12 million for his 91 second knockout of Michael Spinks in June 1988-that worked out at $132,000 per second! - David Diaz actually beat Judah to make it on the Olympic team - Mosleys says in the second Oscar fight his hands were hurting so bad he had to get a cortisone shot before the fight. - Mosleys high score in bowling is 242 - Harry Haft was a concentration camp boxing champion, who often was forced to fight to the death with his opponents by the nazi's. He went on to become a challenger to Rocky Marciano. - Ken Norton attended Northern Mississippi State University on a football scholarship before joining the Marine Corps, where he took up boxing, and became a three time All Marine heavyweight champion. - Ali vs Norton was the last fight to be held at yankee stadium. - Jeff Lacy dreamed he was going to lose to JC - Edwin Valero has 25 knockouts in 25 fights.... here are some other knockout streaks Acelino freitas had 29 Vitali Klit had 27 John 'The Beast' Mugabi had 26 Vargas 17 and to show you it sometimes really has nothing to do with how good a puncher you are Trinidad had only 5 consecutive stoppages to start off his career Tyson had 18 Marcaino 16 - The longest KO streak came from an unheralded fighter named Lamar Clark at 41. He was stopped by Ali in 2 rounds. - When Oscar was a kid at school, the teacher asked what they wanted to be when they grow up. Some said doctor, astronaut and so on. Oscar said he wanted to be an olympic champion. Everyone started laughing. - That Tyson, despite being a native of NYC, only headlined at the Garden once - Dwight Muhammad Qawi fought his first top 10 opponent in prison - Jermaine Taylor's favourite sport isn't even boxing, he doesn't watch fights or anything, it's just a job to him. - George Charpientier turned pro at age 16 and fought in all 8 traditional weight classes. He started as a flyweight, climaxed his career as a lightheavyweight champ then ended it with a loss to Jack Dempsey. - Emile Grifith has fought the most championship round (339) - Joe Loius has the most successful consecutive title defense with 25, his reign started in June of 1937 and ended 11 years and 7 months later -Archie Moore raked up 129 wins by KO during his career - Jimmy Wilde holds the record for the longest undefeated streak with 98 wins before his first defeat in 1923 (**EDIT** after a quick look on boxrec im pretty sure he fought alot of bums to get his record.. when he was 82-0 -2 he fought Albert Bouzonnie who was 0-2-0 at the time) - John L Sulivan became the first official recognized Heavyweight champion of the world when he defeated Dominick McCaffrey on August 29 in 1885 - The first fighter to hold 3 titles in 3 different weight classes simultaneousy was Henry Armstong. He held the featherweight title in 1937 , won the lightweight title in 1938 and the welterweight title also in 1938. This content is protected This content is protected This content is protected - Heavy weight Jack Demsey's real name was not Jack Dempsey. He took the name of the best fighter of the era before. - Joe Walcott fought men from lightweight all the way to heavyweight. - He is the person Arnold Raymond Cream, who you know better as "jersey joe walcott" named himself after. - He actually coined the phrase "the bigger they are the harder they fall." OR DID HE????? 1897 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall" http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&gl=us It was Joe Walcott, the Barbados Demon, welterweight champion of the world from 1901-1904, who actually coined the phrase "the bigger they are the harder they fall." Bob Fitzsimmons certainly popularized the saying before he faced Jim Jeffries, but it was Walcott who first said it. The phrase belonged to Walcott, who despite his short stature was extremely successful against much larger and heavier opponents. He had fantastic stamina and durability as well as a proven punch. A natural welterweight, he was one of the greatest "pound for pound" fighters in boxing history and fought men weighing from lightweight to heavyweight during his career. http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&gl=us Bob Fitzsimmons had proven himself to be the greatest middleweight of his era, a fearsome puncher with a veteran?s skills, before moving up and taking on some of the best big men in the game. With his fourteenth round knockout of Corbett in 1897, he had become the only middleweight champ to ever win the heavyweight title. It was he who invented and proved the saying, ?The bigger they are, the harder they fall.? Such was not true, he learned, with Jeffries. http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache...&ct=clnk&gl=us Quote Verifer says http://books.google.com/books?id=d6J...20fall&f=false - Mayorga once said Oscar is a great fighter, he loves what he has done for latinos and the only problem with oscar is oscar is not as handsome as him. I believe that was leading up to Hoya vs Mosley 2. - Jersey Joe Walcott fought the heavyweight legend Joe Louis very-very strongly in 1947 and 1948. 10 years later, when Louis prepared for the fight vs Max Schmelling, Walcott was hired as his sparring partner. Walcott then was fired after working for 2 days only, because he knocked down Louis 3 times in a training. Let me know if you see mistakes Thanks for the info guys I love little tidbits of lesser known things like this lol...
muhammad ali beat 6 former olympians as a pro floyd patterson,joe frazier,george foreman,leon spinks,henry cooper and rudi lubbers
The first million dollar purse was won by Sonny Liston (vs Floyd Patterson) Chris Eubank has appeared in adverts for Jaffa Cakes Joe Louis uttered two of boxings most famous observations "He can run but he cant hide" and "Everyone has a plan until they get hit". One of the Marquess Of Queensbury's rules was not to wear shoes or boots with springs. Joe Calzaghe made his professional debut on the undercard of Lewis vs Bruno Many old phrases originate from boxing: A crowd would gather around a roped off section, the ropes held up by stakes in the ground. An organiser would go round with a whip to collect money from the punters to pay the fighters (Having a whip round) and place the money in a purse (The fighers pay) which would then be hung from the stake (the stakes). The referee would make a mark/line/scratch in the dirt with his foot and the fighters would approach this to start the fight. (Toeing the line, Coming up to sctratch, Coming up to the mark) All true!