Interesting facts

I'll start off. Edison Miranda used to eat CATS...

what you got?

 

When David Tua was a child his father used to put him in fights with grown men for money..

 

When golota was an amateur back in Poland he once bumped into a bouncer at a club. golota knocked him out on the spot but other bouncers ganged up on him and beat the shit out of him.

 

The 1st Person Sugar Ray Leonard EVER KO'ed was his Older Brother...


REED

 

haha really???

amateur fight or just sparring???

 

David Tua is fat.

 

that's a fact yet somehow not THAT interesting...now if you said back in the day he was thin

 

Ricardo Lopez likes to read classic literature.

 

Demarcus Corley loves wearing women's underwear

 

A lot of people probably already know this but for those who don't; Marving Hagler fought Roy Jones Sr.

 

speaking of a guy like ricardo..he's been retired for 6 years now...a guy like him...now that no longer in the sport...Do you think he let him self go and baloon up to a healthy 130 lbs?

 

i didn't ! i didn't even knew roid sr boxed ! i guess that answers the question who came first the chicken or the egg...the chicken and then it laid an egg to another chicken ::

 

Jack Sharkey was the only man to have faced both Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis. When asked to pick a winner between the two he declined to say, but added that if the fight was in a phone booth Dempsey would have won.

 

Hector Camacho paid kids in the streets so that they would try to beat up his son (I can't blame him though)

 

The most expensive boxing autograph is Marvin Hart's

 

:laughing:

 

Most Championship rounds
Emille Griffith-----339

Longest span between winning titles
George Foreman----21 years, 10 months and 14 days

Biggest weight difference
Bob Fitzsimmons (174) KO2 Ed Dunkhorst (314)-140lbs(1900)

 

Sparring...

Initially, Ray Followed his Older Brother to the Gym...After Going for Awhile, Ray Asked his Brother to Spar 1 Day...

The Brother thought Ray was Crazy, but Obliged him Anyways, Thinking he'd Teach Ray a Lesson...

Then he Got KO'ed...


REED

 

while messing around drunk in Atlantic City, Ponce De Leon KTFOed Edwin Valero with one punch.

 

If the great Featherweight champion Sandy Saddler and Rocky Marciano
where to fight, Saddler would have a 2 inch reach advantage, 70 inches
to Marciano's 68.

Floyd Patterson was knocked down more than any other modern Heavyweight champion, 20 times

When he was asked by Gil Clancy on air who would win the up-comming fight between Maurice Blocker and Glenwood Brown, Buddy McGirt replied "the black guy"

 

When Nigel benn was at the height of his powers he got knocked out by a friend of mine at a nightclub in London.

 

Big boned :nono:

 

Ali upstaged? Ali was on a plane when a stewardess asked him to fasten
his seat belt, Ali told the lady "Superman dont need no seat belt". The
stewardess told the champ "Superman dont need no plane!"

The first mouthpiece was used in 1915 in a bout between Ted "Kid" Lewis
and Jack Britton.

Jim Watt fromer WBC lightweight champions when asked about his "white
complexion" by a reporter said, "I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves".

 

Indeed, and Papa Trinidad fought Salvador Sanchez and was iced in 5

 

Are they friends? Where did you hear this one?

 

Joe DeGuardia knocked out Lou Del Valle cold with one punch.

Fight Night Round 3's original cover was supposed to have had Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward together on the cover, but not fighting(as it is now). They brought them into chicago, and on the day of the photoshoot, they showed up completely wasted from drinking all night. The photos came out terrible, so EA sports decided to run a photo that was hanging on one of the developer's walls.

 

yea i remember hearing about that when we were in AC w/ Wayne Johnsen's trainer.

he also said that Ward was pissed when he saw himself get KOed in the promo since he's actually never been counted out before. ::

 

The deceased guy whom Mike Tyson dedicated the Lou Savarese fight to ("I dedicate this fight to my brother Darryl Baum"), is the guy who shot 50 Cent.

50 Cent later purchased Mike Tyson's old home.