Which Fighters Became Great Champs despite having several losses early on?

just afew early fights?

yeh Johnny Nelson that famous Sheffield Ticket seller

 

Greg you'll know, was Cuevas undefeated when he fought Hearns???

 

I think Jack Johnson's first 13 were 4 wins, 3 losses, 4 draws, and 2 no-decisions.

 

Danny Lopez

 

He'd lost 6 before he won the title but he did turn pro young. He was a month short of his 14th birthday.
One of those losses was to Andy Hawk Price who also had a win over Carlos Palomino.
McVey might of even been at Price's war against Dave Boy Green.

 

Cuevas was not undefeated he had a heap of losses. I had to think twice there you freaked me out i got worried thinking Cuevas was undefeated.

also i just flicked through his record on boxrec he might have had alot of losses but he had decent anmes on his CV

just saw your post now

 

Wow, how did he get them on his CV? Must have been some unique fighter, i will look him up:good:rofl

 

he got them because i cocked up my spelling thats why.

by the way you did no all the mistakes you picked me up on for are mild signs of Dsylexia thanks for making me aware of them

 

**** you know i never meant it maliciously, and no i never knew that, how could i have? I was just keeping up my part in the back and forth game we've been playing at lately.

I wasn't to know, sorry if i hurt any feelings, last thing i would want to happen.

 

im not dyslexic im just saying the stuff you have pointed out are common signs of dyslexia just very very mild not affecting nothingreally.

just thought it was weird as i have never noticed it before and it happens when i write with a pen aswell.

dont woory the game is still on

 

Man really that's not good doing that to me, i thought i'd insulted you cos you're dyslexic, i'm not playing no more!

Anyway i really gotta go out now, later

 

see ya

just saying those was signs of it. Im not fussed as it aint bad and its all in good spirit

 

He lost a number of fights in the time between coming to America and eventually winning the title, most of them on disputed and/or split decisions.

 

World Champions who lost there professional debut: Alexis Arguello, Bruno Arcari, Henry Armstrong, Rodolfo Blanco, Jack Britton, Joe Brown, Victor Callejas, Miguel Canto, Freddie Castillo, Jesus Castillo, Frank Cedeno, Chang-Ho Choi, Billy Conn, Roberto Cruz, Carlos Teo Cruz, Pipino Cuevas, Jose Dundee, Harry Forbes, Nestor Giovanni, S T Gordon, Bernard Hopkins, Daniel Jiminez, Sung Jun Kim, Tae-Shik Kim, Tippy Larkin, Alfredo Layne, Benny Leonard, Benny Lynch, Tacy Macalos, Eddie Martin, Manny Melchor, Manuel Ortiz, Freddie Pendleton, Eddie Perkins, Bonecrusher Smith, Seung-Il Suk, Wilfredo Vasquez, Mike Weaver & Prince Charles Williams.

 

Monzon lost 3 and drew 3 of his early fights, then went undefeated for the rest of his career.