boxer whos had the most pro fights???

Wales · Post by **Wales** » 16 Feb 2005, 13:29

Any ideas?

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 16 Feb 2005, 14:32

The USA's Reggie Strickland has had about 357 and counting I don't know of anotheer active fighter who has had more.

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=004741

Matt Teague · Post by **Matt Teague** » 16 Feb 2005, 17:12

Past Boxer Len Wickwar had 464 fights between 1928-1947 an amazing record, In 1932 boxing 50 times and 1933 49 times. Talk about being hardcore.

jomothepure · Post by **jomothepure** » 16 Feb 2005, 17:20

I was going to say that must of hurt a bit, but he's actually got a very impressive record (336-84-42) http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=024129

iowaboxfan · Post by **iowaboxfan** » 16 Feb 2005, 17:32

Wickwar fought a lot of guys 3-6 times. He aslo took on 3 different guys is the same night, beating them all. Impressive.

Wales · Post by **Wales** » 16 Feb 2005, 19:09

always makes me chuckle when classic boxing fans bang on about the ammount of fights classic boxers had yet how would the media and fans react to someone like hoopkins, mayweather morales etc.. fighting a fighter thats 0-0-0 in their30th, 35th, 40th fight and so on.

Bladder · Post by **Bladder** » 17 Feb 2005, 17:29

Wales wrote:always makes me chuckle when classic boxing fans bang on about the ammount of fights classic boxers had yet how would the media and fans react to someone like hoopkins, mayweather morales etc.. fighting a fighter thats 0-0-0 in their30th, 35th, 40th fight and so on.

The 0-0-0 fighters most likely haven't had their records entered yet.

Or maybe they all decided to retire after making their pro debut against Len Wickwar.

Boxrec is a looooooooooong way from being anywhere near complete.

So stop chuckling.

JC · Post by JC » 17 Feb 2005, 17:43

I see he got disqualified against Jackie Berg, be interesting to know what happen there.

JC · Post by JC » 17 Feb 2005, 17:51

Only two fighter had more fights than Len Wickwar

Jack Britton
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=011897

Johnny Dundee
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=011862

Dundee must have had an increadible chin he lost 60 of his 343 fights but was only knocked out twice. He was a true great (as was britton) but could have been even greater had he been blessed wth more power.

Bladder · Post by **Bladder** » 17 Feb 2005, 18:24

J-C wrote:Only two fighter had more fights than Len Wickwar

Jack Britton
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=011897

Johnny Dundee
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=011862

Dundee must have had an increadible chin he lost 60 of his 343 fights but was only knocked out twice. He was a true great (as was britton) but could have been even greater had he been blessed wth more power.

They had LESS fights than Wickwar. Wickwar had 460+ fights. The link to his record is a few posts previous.

Impressive records nonetheless.

JC · Post by JC » 17 Feb 2005, 18:47

Bladder wrote:
J-C wrote:Only two fighter had more fights than Len Wickwar

Jack Britton
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=011897

Johnny Dundee
http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=011862

Dundee must have had an increadible chin he lost 60 of his 343 fights but was only knocked out twice. He was a true great (as was britton) but could have been even greater had he been blessed wth more power.
They had LESS fights than Wickwar. Wickwar had 460+ fights. The link to his record is a few posts previous.

Impressive records nonetheless.

Yeah sorry that's what i meant wickwar had the most these two are second and third. But i suppose Strickland has now surpassed these two which is a shame in someways as Britton and Dundee were both hall of famers and wickwar had a good record. Not that I dond't have respect for boxrec favorite Reggie

Ric · Post by **Ric** » 17 Feb 2005, 20:17

Here's a work in progress:
http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php?t ... _200_bouts

Wales · Post by **Wales** » 17 Feb 2005, 20:48

The 0-0-0 fighters most likely haven't had their records entered yet.

Or maybe they all decided to retire after making their pro debut against Len Wickwar.

Boxrec is a looooooooooong way from being anywhere near complete.

So stop chuckling.

I'd be more iclined to say the 0-0-0 fighter were at best club fighters performing exhibitions, at best they are 3-5-1 (random fight record) fighters in the ring in order for the local crowd to see the "champions" showcase their skills.

Loynesy · Post by **Loynesy** » 17 Feb 2005, 21:11

Also - a lot of the fellas had fights in the booths. Where does exhibition end and pro fight start?

jimglen · Post by **jimglen** » 18 Feb 2005, 01:14

Booth fights were fought in two different ways, first in the way that they came to be famous for and mistakenly known!

1) Fighters taking on 'all-comers' from the local public, the fair ground audience...
2) The "Pro's" who toured with the Booth's or showed up at the Booth's would fight 'ligitimate' recorded payed but UNSANCTIONED Pro fights against one another! This is how so many British fighters fought 200 and 300 recorded but UNSANCTIONED Pro fights and in some cases many more

This became such a problem for the BBB of C. that they eventually put a BAN on Pro's fighting in these Unsanctioned events (1947), without them first collecting their dues ($) from fighters and Booth proprietors alike, that any Pro's found to be taking part in such events "could" lose their Boxing Licience.

Historians claim that this was the beginning of the eventual 'demise of the Famous British Boxing Booths... Bert Gilroy for example fought a reported 238 'recorded' Pro fights with just 29 losses and a further 300 or more 'booth' fights against all-comers (the Fair ground public), this was done by almost ALL of the British fighters in those days.