Lowest amount of fights to win a belt

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Lowest amount of fights to win a belt

Post by Grimm »

What fighter has the record for having the lowest amount of fights to win a belt.

Is it Spinks?
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Post by bollox »

Saensak Muangsurin won the WBC 140 title in his 3rd pro fight but there's a couple that won it earlier :o
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Post by thunderfromdownunder »

anthony mundine, he only had a few fights before capturing the WBA super middleweight title
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Post by thunderfromdownunder »

thunderfromdownunder wrote:anthony mundine, he only had a few fights before capturing the WBA super middleweight title
sorry i meant to say befor challenging for the IBF title (ten fights i think)
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Post by bollox »

thunderfromdownunder wrote:
thunderfromdownunder wrote:anthony mundine, he only had a few fights before capturing the WBA super middleweight title
sorry i meant to say befor challenging for the IBF title (ten fights i think)
Fenech won the IBF title in his 7th pro fight
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Post by Chopping Right »

1956 Olympic heavyweight gold medallist Pete Rademacher fought world champion Floyd Patterson in his very first pro fight. He lost, but he did have Patterson down.
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Post by Freiheit »

Veeraphol Sahaprom won the WBA 118 belt in his 4th fight.
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Post by Jaclem »

..when spinks won from ali it was for the legit and linear title...no matter what someof the alphabet boys might have said at the time...so i think that spinks is probably the correct answer.

i'm not saying the others listed here aren't legit...but i'm prety sure they were for alphabet titles.
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Post by Jaclem »

..and now that i've looked at the posts again i see that i am right. so..yeah...it's spinks.
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Saensak Muangsurin won the WBC light welter crown in his 3rd pro fight and Light Fly Paul Weir won a WBO belt in his 6th fight
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