Please list any interesting Boxing facts, trivia, legends, stories, etc.

[Director101]

Which culture is this? Sounds pretty crazy

Inuit in Canada.

 

[enswell****]

Atanarjuat FTW !!!

 

[Lazy Man]

Inuit in Canada.

Pretty awesome... thanks for sharing that one

 

[Sharkey]

Perhaps you folks can help with this. I remember reading an old article that mentioned who, I believe, was a 70s fighter and I recall he was either a champion in his division or a top contender. Black guy. Had wild hair and sideburns. It was reported that he would not bathe or shower for the duration of his entire training camp! He was quoting as saying that it kept him in a fighting mood. Anyone know who this was? How would you like to clinch with that?

Marvin Johnson.

 

[kingobould***]

The most prolific boxer in history was Great Britain's Len Wickwar who, between 1928 and 1947, fought 463 bouts. He also holds the records for the most wins (336) and most losses (127) of any boxer.

 

[kingobould***]

The name "Golden Gloves" was born in 1923 when a Chicago Tribune sports editor, Arch Ward, originated an amateur boxing tournament designed to help youth and promote amateur competition. The award given to each winner was a tiny golden boxing glove.

 

[Director101]

Atanarjuat FTW !!!

Haha, there's a scene in that movie demonstrating about what I talked about folks.

 

[Lazy Man]

The most prolific boxer in history was Great Britain's Len Wickwar who, between 1928 and 1947, fought 463 bouts. He also holds the records for the most wins (336) and most losses (127) of any boxer.

Pretty sure there are guys with more losses, at least now.

Reggie Strickland - Boxer

 

[Director101]

Pretty awesome... thanks for sharing that one

No problem...on a sidenote, your av is very disturbing.

 

[enswell****]

Looks like Sharkey beat me to it again.


Matt Lindland practices this smelly eccentricity much to the chagrin of his opponents.

 

[enswell****]

The name "Golden Gloves" was born in 1923 when a Chicago Tribune sports editor, Arch Ward, originated an amateur boxing tournament designed to help youth and promote amateur competition. The award given to each winner was a tiny golden boxing glove.

That's disputed.
Was it sports editor Paul Gallico (who once got knocked out by Dempsey but that's another story) of the New York Daily News and Capt Patterson who started Golden Gloves in 1927 or was it Arch Ward and Don Maxwell of the Chicago Tribune who started Golden Gloves?

 

[Kakimori]

This thread is excellent and wonderful and should go on forever.

 

[TheRatman]

Ok Boxing "Experts". here is a list of questions from a HW Boxing Quiz in 1962.

1. Until the last decade of the 19th century, boxing matches were fought without gloves. Who was the last bare knuckle heavyweight champion?

2. Who was the first fighter to win the heavyweight championship with gloves?

3. Only four heavyweight champions had undefeated records when they challenged for the title. Who were they?

4. Besides Jeffries and Marciano, only two other heavyweight champions have retired undefeated. Who are they?

5. Has any heavyweight champion ever refused to continue during a title fight?

6. There have been five foreigners to hold the heavyweight crown. Who are they?

7. There have been eight one-round knockouts in heavyweight championship fights. Three titleholders were involved in them. Who were they?

8. Who was the biggest heavyweight champion?

9. Many champions have been known by shortened or simplified versions of their real names, as have Joe Louis Barrow ( Joe Louis) and Rocco Marchegiano ( Rocky Marciano). Who were heavyweight titleholders Noah Brusso, Joseph Paul Zukauskas and Arnold Raymond Cream?



Remember this quiz was written in 1962, so all the answer had to have happen o before then.

Good luck and no cheating you bastards. :icon_chee

 

[ThirdPartyView]

Ok Boxing "Experts". here is a list of questions from a HW Boxing Quiz in 1962.

1. Until the last decade of the 19th century, boxing matches were fought without gloves. Who was the last bare knuckle heavyweight champion?

John L. Sullivan

2. Who was the first fighter to win the heavyweight championship with gloves?

John L. Sullivan (assuming we count the Dominick McCaffrey win as being for the MoQ HW title; otherwise, it's Jim Corbett)

3. Only four heavyweight champions had undefeated records when they challenged for the title. Who were they?

Jim Corbett, Jim Jeffries, Rocky Marciano and Ingemar Johannson. If you want to be smarmy, I guess you can also say Sullivan since he was undefeated when he won both the Bareknuckle and MoQ claims.

4. Besides Jeffries and Marciano, only two other heavyweight champions have retired undefeated. Who are they?

Gene Tunney retired as champion but he had lost to Harry Greb so he technically was defeated before. The only other one I can think of is Joe Louis, who had lost to Schmeling and later on came back to lose his lineal claim to Ezzard Charles (and then go on a brief streak only to be KOd by Marciano). And really, only Marciano ever left the sport for good as undefeated (since Jeffries was KOd by Johnson in 1910).

5. Has any heavyweight champion ever refused to continue during a title fight?

Jess Willard retired in the corner against Jack Dempsey. Do we count Max Schmeling claiming a low blow and Lou Brouillarding his way to a DQ win over Jack Sharkey for the vacant World Heavyweight Title? I'd say Liston, but the Liston-Ali I fight is after 1962.

6. There have been five foreigners to hold the heavyweight crown. Who are they?

I'll assume non-US born champions, so that would be Bob Fitzsimmons, Max Schmeling, Ingemar Johansson, Primo Carnera & Tommy Burns.

7. There have been eight one-round knockouts in heavyweight championship fights. Three titleholders were involved in them. Who were they?

Joe Louis, Tommy Burns & Jim Jeffries.

8. Who was the biggest heavyweight champion?

Jess Willard

9. Many champions have been known by shortened or simplified versions of their real names, as have Joe Louis Barrow ( Joe Louis) and Rocco Marchegiano ( Rocky Marciano). Who were heavyweight titleholders Noah Brusso, Joseph Paul Zukauskas and Arnold Raymond Cream?

Tommy Burns, Jack Sharkey & 'Jersey' Joe Walcott

Edit: The hardest part of the quiz, IMO was the 'Noah Brusso' part of Q #9, btw.

 

[TheRatman]

Dam that was fast THP. Here is the answer and you got 7 and 2/3 out of 9.


1. Until the last decade of the 19th century, boxing matches were fought without gloves. Who was the last bare knuckle heavyweight champion?

John L. Sullivan of Roxbury, Mass. He gained the American heavyweight title when he knocked out Paddy Ryan in nine rounds on February 7, 1882. He defended his title against Jake Kilrain on July 8, 1889 in he last bare knuckle championship fight, mocking out Kilrain after 75 rounds.

2. Who was the first fighter to win the heavyweight championship with gloves?

James J. Corbett, who knocked out John L. Sullivan in 21 rounds on September 7, 1892. It was the first championship in which gloves (five ounces) were used.

3. Only four heavyweight champions had undefeated records when they challenged for the title. Who were they?

John L. Sullivan, James J. Jeffries, Rocky Marciano and Ingemar Johansson. Jeffries took the title from Bob Fitzsimmons in 1889, defended it successfully six times, finally retired in 1905 from lack of opposition. Marciano knocked out Jersey Joe Walcott for the championship in 1952 and retired undefeated in 1956, having defended his title six times. Johansson, European heavyweight champion, held the world title for less than a year. On June 26, 1959 he won the championship by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the third round. In a rematch on June 20, 1960 Johansson was knocked out by Patterson in the fifth round, the latter becoming the first heavyweight champion to regain his title. Johansson's second and last attempt to beat Patterson (March 13, 1961) ended in a sixth-round knockout.

4. Besides Jeffries and Marciano, only two other heavyweight champions have retired undefeated. Who are they?

Gene Tunney and Joe Louis. Tunney, who won the world heavyweight title from Jack Dempsey in 1926 and successfully defended it the following year in the celebrated "Long Count" battle, retired from the ring in July, 1928 after his second defense of the title. Louis held the crown for a record 11 years 8 months. He won the title on June 22, 1937 when he knocked out James J. Braddock, and he retired on March 1, 1949, having successfully defended his title 25 times.

5. Has any heavyweight champion ever refused to continue during a title fight?

Yes. Jess Willard's seconds threw in the towel after the third round of his bloody bout with Jack Dempsey on July 4, 1919. ( Willard had become champion in 1915, but had defended the title only once, in 1916, in a fight that ended in no decision

6. There have been five foreigners to hold the heavyweight crown. Who are they?

Bob Fitzsimmons of England (1897-99); Tommy Burns of Canada (1906-08); Max Schmeling of Germany (1930-32); Primo Carnera of Italy (1933-34) and Ingemar Johansson of Sweden (1959-60).

7. There have been eight one-round knockouts in heavyweight championship fights. Three titleholders were involved in them. Who were they?

Joe Louis knocked out five of his challengers in one round ( Max Schmeling, John Henry Lewis, Jack Roper, Buddy Baer and Tami Mauriello). Earlier in the century Champion Tommy Burns took care of two aspirants, Bill Squires and Jem Roche, in one round each, knocking out the latter in the record time of 1:28. And in 1953 Rocky Marciano stopped Jersey Joe Walcott in 2:25 of the first round.

8. Who was the biggest heavyweight champion?

Although Jess Willard was the tallest, at 6 feet 6� inches, Primo Carnera was the real giant of the ring in every other physical respect. He weighed 267 pounds, had a reach of 85� inches, a 48-inch chest (with six inches expansion) and a 38-inch waist. He also had the largest biceps (18� inches), neck (20 inches), calf (20 inches), thigh (30 inches), fist (14� inches) and forearm (16 inches). Before he was "discovered" by U.S. promoters Carnera had worked as a strong man in a circus sideshow.

9. Many champions have been known by shortened or simplified versions of their real names, as have Joe Louis Barrow ( Joe Louis) and Rocco Marchegiano ( Rocky Marciano). Who were heavyweight titleholders Noah Brusso, Joseph Paul Zukauskas and Arnold Raymond Cream?

Tommy Burns, Jack Sharkey and Jersey Joe Walcott—in that order.

A heavyweight championship boxing quiz to excite the - 09.24.62 - SI Vault

 

[ThirdPartyView]

3. Only four heavyweight champions had undefeated records when they challenged for the title. Who were they?

John L. Sullivan, James J. Jeffries, Rocky Marciano and Ingemar Johansson. Jeffries took the title from Bob Fitzsimmons in 1889, defended it successfully six times, finally retired in 1905 from lack of opposition. Marciano knocked out Jersey Joe Walcott for the championship in 1952 and retired undefeated in 1956, having defended his title six times. Johansson, European heavyweight champion, held the world title for less than a year. On June 26, 1959 he won the championship by knocking out Floyd Patterson in the third round. In a rematch on June 20, 1960 Johansson was knocked out by Patterson in the fifth round, the latter becoming the first heavyweight champion to regain his title. Johansson's second and last attempt to beat Patterson (March 13, 1961) ended in a sixth-round knockout.

Corbett was also undefeated entering the Sullivan fight, so I'm confused about them not mentioning him.

7. There have been eight one-round knockouts in heavyweight championship fights. Three titleholders were involved in them. Who were they?

Joe Louis knocked out five of his challengers in one round ( Max Schmeling, John Henry Lewis, Jack Roper, Buddy Baer and Tami Mauriello). Earlier in the century Champion Tommy Burns took care of two aspirants, Bill Squires and Jem Roche, in one round each, knocking out the latter in the record time of 1:28. And in 1953 Rocky Marciano stopped Jersey Joe Walcott in 2:25 of the first round.

I'm guessing this is what I got 'wrong', but I checked my files and Boxrec and Jim Jeffries did knock out Jack Finnegan in a round, so technically there were 4 titleholders with a total of 9 KOs in a round (and putting in either Jeffries or Marciano as the 3rd man leads to 8 KOs combined).

Edit: Here is a listing of the historian-regarded lineal MoQ HW claim, hence why I made Sullivan my first choice (with a conditional) as MoQ (gloved) HW champion.

 

[kingobould***]

Pretty sure there are guys with more losses, at least now.

Reggie Strickland - Boxer

yep he does hold the record now. I would of stopped one short of breaking that awful record.

 

[kingobould***]

That's disputed.
Was it sports editor Paul Gallico (who once got knocked out by Dempsey but that's another story) of the New York Daily News and Capt Patterson who started Golden Gloves in 1927 or was it Arch Ward and Don Maxwell of the Chicago Tribune who started Golden Gloves?

what are those guys back stories for coming up with golden gloves?

 

[enswell****]

This took a little thinkin', cobwebs had to be shaken out..


Ok Boxing "Experts". here is a list of questions from a HW Boxing Quiz in 1962.

1. Until the last decade of the 19th century, boxing matches were fought without gloves. Who was the last bare knuckle heavyweight champion?

1. John L. Sullivan


2. Who was the first fighter to win the heavyweight championship with gloves?

2. Jim Corbett


3. Only four heavyweight champions had undefeated records when they challenged for the title. Who were they?

3. James J. Jeffries, Rocky Marciano, Muhammad Ali. (John L. Sullivan?)


4. Besides Jeffries and Marciano, only two other heavyweight champions have retired undefeated. Who are they?

4. Kind of a dodgy question. Gene Tunney and Joe Louis both retired as Champs, but both had been defeated before winning the Title.


5. Has any heavyweight champion ever refused to continue during a title fight?

5. Yes. Liston against Ali. Willard against Dempsey. Primo against Baer. Willard and Primo took horrific prolonged beatings from murderous punchers though.


6. There have been five foreigners to hold the heavyweight crown. Who are they?

6. Bob Fitzsimmons, Tommy Burns, Max Schmeling, Primo Carnera, Ingemar Johanson.


7. There have been eight one-round knockouts in heavyweight championship fights. Three titleholders were involved in them. Who were they?

7. Sonny Liston. Joe Louis. Ali.


8. Who was the biggest heavyweight champion?

8. Primo Carnera.


9. Many champions have been known by shortened or simplified versions of their real names, as have Joe Louis Barrow ( Joe Louis) and Rocco Marchegiano ( Rocky Marciano). Who were heavyweight titleholders Noah Brusso, Joseph Paul Zukauskas and Arnold Raymond Cream?

9. Noah Brusso- Tommy Burns
Joseph Paul Zukauskas- Jack Sharkey
Arnold Raymond Cream - Jersey Joe Walcott


Remember this quiz was written in 1962, so all the answer had to have happen o before then.

Good luck and no cheating you bastards. :icon_chee


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Felt like I was taking a test in school...


^ That's not too bad, memory only, fellas..

 

[kingobould***]

Archie Moore holds the record for most knockouts during a career -- a staggering 141.

Lamar Clark holds the record for the most consecutive knockouts with 44 in a row between 1958 and 1960.

The youngest and oldest world champions were Wilfred Benitez at age 17 (junior welterweight title, 1976) and George Foreman at age 45 (heavyweight title, 1994).