Surprising boxing numbers

Foreman was his daddy then AND 20 years later. :giggle:

 

You could add that during the last ten years, Vitali has won only one fight in less than eight rounds

 

I liked my Ezzard Charles stat, personally.opcorn:

 

It's no 11 years, but it was pretty cool I guess.

 

Didnae say it wiz, mate. It was an agenda driven polemic stat so I accept the deafening silence as long as the general point's made.:Thumbs:

 

It's slightly misleading, though. From what I remember, there was a big stink over the Florida commission using their own judges rather than from whatever sanctioning body offered up their belt from the fight.

I remember HBO saying there were two sets of judges that night, and offered up the sanctioning body judges' scores. I also remember McCallum winning/deserving 3-4 rounds in that fight, especially a few of the early rounds.

 

Word.

 

Perhaps not a surprise more so than just an interesting fact, but:

In the 13 years that Joe Louis reigned as heavyweight champ, the world title changed hands 40 times in the other seven weight classes.

 

Very cool when you consider there was only one title per weight class back then.

 

I was watching a Joe Louis 'greatest KOs' clip on youtube the other day. His highlight reel makes Tyson & Foreman's look like Chris Byrd's. Half those KOs look more like 19th century industrial accidents. Terrifying & beautiful.

 

5.7 changes per weight class on average :bears: That's a dominant reign.

 

40/(no. weight classes (7?))

= ~6 times !!!!

Now that is amazing - while the belt changed hands on average 6 times in a given weight class, the heavyweight title didn't change at all.

 

That's not surprising.

 

That's not surprising...but perhaps it makes it surprising that he was involved in two fights that broke compubox records for punches thrown in 12 round heavyweight fights.

 

:: I'm just tossing shit out there.

 

7 hours 19 minutes, 110 rounds. The longest fight in history.

 

Yeah, Ruiz-Rahman felt that way

 

I don't know the numbers, but if you look at ring deaths in usa televised fights from 1999 to 2005 and from 2006 to 2011, I'm guessing it's about 5-0 and maybe higher.

 

Despite his rep as a boring fighter, Wlad has the third highest-ever total of knockouts/stoppages in heavyweight title fights - 14, which is only behind Ali (17) and Louis (22).

In 20 heavyweight title fights, Evander Holyfield has fewer knockouts (4) than does Sven Ottke in super middleweight title fights (5, out of 22)

 

The second one is very surprising.

 

More so than Hagler only being 11 years older than Hopkins ::?

 

Well obviously not. We're all still recovering from that.

 

I love how people try to use won-loss records of guys who fought 20 times a year with far fewer soft-touches as a means of comparison to guys who fight once or twice a year with far more soft touches

 

Particularly when the vast majority of said loses came when a guy was firstly past prime, then shot, then super shot and then flat out punch drunk.

In Charles case the only two legit loses he suffered in his prime were influenced by severe weight drain in his last two fights at 168. A prime spent fighting the best resume in boxing history.

Greatest fighter ever, IMHO.:Thumbs:

 

In Mid 1987 there was a tall young super-talented active Natural Middleweight NABF titlist who was undefeated, 26-0 and his name was Michael "Second to" Nunn.


The reigning champion at that weight elected to fight a 4 years retired, blown up Welterweight, recovering from a detached retina, dropped in his previous fight past prime fighter instead.

Bald head and goatie doesn't necessarily translate into big cojones....

 

5-0? what does that mean? we're not there with you, engrossed in your lazy version of English. if it's worth posting, it's worth communicating. as it stands, you've managed to blabber and not much else.

 

"elected?" what the fuck are you talking about? you're clearly a Hagler-hater to suggest that: a.) he was afraid of Nunn, and b.) he somehow leveraged SRL as a means for avoiding Nunn and c.) that Hagler wasn't making the only sensible decision there were when he agreed to fight SRL while he could...

 

easily top 5... phenomenal

 

you are quickly becoming the Il Duce of revisionism around here

 

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I just wanted to bait YOU in particular...