JIMMY YOUNG'S RECORD

phil · Post by **phil** » 28 Feb 2005, 09:37

It seems as if newspaper reports give 1990 as Young's fight bout and that he appeared to have won that. Boxing Central's report on his death gives him 35 victories - BOXREC has 34.......anybody shed any light on this?

Phil

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 28 Feb 2005, 15:05

Not directly, but in a Boxing News interview with Jimmy Young about 2 years ago (I have not got it with me at the moment) Jimmy claimed to have had about 6 more fights than listed in his record, he was very clear on this point.

The interviewer Tris Dixon, stated that Young had a near photographic memory with ragards to his career details

This made me assume that the extra bouts were maybe unlicenced fights (NSF)?

Unfortunatly I have no further information on this matter.

For what it's worth my 'gut' feeling is that Jimmy did have a few more fights than we have listed for him

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 02 Mar 2005, 13:02

From an article by Randy Gordon of the sweatscience.com

At the tail end of sports sections and sports columns around the country for the past week, there has been a tiny item saying something like, “Former heavyweight contender Jimmy Young died on February 20 at the age of 56. His most notable fight was a 15-round decision loss to Muhammad Ali for the world heavyweight championship in April 1976. In a career which lasted from 1969 until 1990, he also faced George Foreman, Ken Norton, Ron Lyle, Gerry Cooney and Earnie Shavers. His career record was 35-18-3 with 12 knockouts.” That was about it. Hardly anything more. Mostly less. He deserved so much better.

And

He fought on through the 1980s. Finally, and ironically, he hung up his gloves after two victories in 1990. They were two knockout victories - this from a worn-out old pug who couldn’t knock out opponents when he was in his prime.

I am more and more certain we may be missing some fights.