Who fought the most champions?

Harry Greb must be a prety good call.

He fought 18 lineal champions in all I believe.

 

BIG DEE HERE= I believe it was HARRY GREB as he fought and defeated 18 men who held or would hold world titles and not this half or quarter championship bull**** you have today. Eight divisions in boxing and one champion and all 100,000 Middleweights in the world are at your throat to get you. The men Harry greb beat were as follows MIDDLEWEIGHTCHAMPIONS Al McCoy, Mike O`Dowd, George Chip, Mickey Walker(Welterweight champ at the time of the defeat), Tiger Flowers, Johnny Wilson, Frank Klaus MIDDLEWEIGHT TITLE CLAIMANTS
Eddie McGoorty, Jeff Smith, Bryan Downey, Frank Mantell, LT.HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONS Battling Levinsky, Jack Dillon, Mike McTigue, Tommy Loughran,
Jimmy Slattery and Maxie Rosenbloom FUTURE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION Gene Tunney. I think this puts this thread to rest as far as fighting champions goes and how many HALL of FAMERS BEING RING MAGAZINE OR THE ONE IN
CANASTOTA, NY. Actually 19 if you count Mickey Walker twice as a welterweight and a middleweight.

 

yeah but back then only white people were allowed to fight for or become lineal champ, except for a few people. You're not really the undisputed champ if there is a coloured champ that has a strong claim to being superior.

 

Wow..."brownpimp"... It is true the color line was unjustifiably drawn in that era...That is a total shame! BUT Greb was not one of those men, he fought EVERYONE....Problably the greatest career record in history.

 

Greb was one of the few champions of that period who had nothing to do with the colour line.

He would fight any man and most animals.

 

Im not accusing him of ducking people, but alot of his 'extra' wins were very close newspaper decisions and no contests where people debate over who won. This is why his resume on this forum is turning into a mythical figure, people just want to give greb as many wins as possible so they can say he would smash monzon and hagler.

 

That is true re newpaper decisions...I recently noticed a change in Greb's record re his fight with Kid Norfolk...They changed it to a 'W' for Greb...:huh

 

exactly, if you have film, then yeah you can change it. But its all hypothetical. Not to mention that greb was an extremely dirty fighter, he would get dq'd all the time in todays era.