Toughest Ever Pro Debut

pinky mitchell the first ever light welter weight challenger.

His manager had claimed he had 40 fights or something but he realy was making his pro debut against mushy callahan and got battered and lost.

callaghna made a defence of his title but was beat in his second defence

 

I might well be wrong but I don't think thats correct mate......

 

I just checked, Mitchell had people like Lew Tendler, Jack Britton, Joe Dundee and Benny Leonard on his record before he beat Callaghan. No way can also those type of guys be fictional opponents.

 

i am wrong oops

there definitly was a division where the first fighter to co challenge for the title was a debutant

ill look it up i just got it in my head it was piky mitchell

sorry lads

 

Lennox fought Al Malcolm who, according to boxrec, wasn't a former British champ but was the reigning Midlands area heavyweight champ at the time of the fight.

Decent debut. Who was the Midlands Area champ when Audley turned pro?

 

Art Oliver fought his pro debut against Buddy Baer.

Buddy was Max Baers brother and still holds the record for the most first round knockouts behind only Jack Dempsey. He knocked Joe Louis out of the ring and gave him a tough fight.

 

A lot of the Thais who fight top level opposition early, are experienced Muay Thai fighters....

But going back to the Western world, I believe Bonecrusher fought and lost to future contender and then top class amateur James Broad on debut before beating future alphabet cruiser titlist Ricky Parkey in fight two.


Jones Jr was fighting fringe contenders by fight three.

Michael Carbajal debuted against Will Grigsby.

 

Ginger Ward may of made his debut against then 452 fight veteran Len Wickwar......

 

Can't believe no-one's mentioned Drago.

 

Choi has been brought up hard, as has Al Hamidi. Matched well he could be a decent domestic fighter, but he's fought a lot of decent prospects from the get-go (and deserved a win over John Murray if you believe the reports, never saw the fight myself)

 

Amir Khan fought...... on no never mind....

 

Pedro Mendoza;

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=134949&cat=boxer

 

Archie Moore fought a few debutants too.

Classic posters might have more of an idea though on this subject.

 

TBH I think its a case of incomplete boxrec records. :good

 

Can't believe Charlie Zelenoff hasn't got one vote?