most succesful boxing family

[littlepug]

Consisting of more than two members of same family I'm going with the spinks all 3 won world titles and also 2 Olympic gold

[Ambling Alp II]

I would lean towards them as well. However, you could argue for the Gibbons brothers, who have two Hall of Famers, Mike and Tommy. The Zivic brothers, are worth mentioning as well as Floyd and Tracy Patterson, Max and Buddy Baer, and the Mayweathers.

[raylawpc]

The Fullers: Don, Gene, and Jay

The Alis: Muhammad, Rahman, and Laila

The Quarrys: Jerry, Mike, and Bobby.

The Fraziers: Joe, Jackie and Marvis.

The Gardners: George, Billy, and Jimmy.

The Anayas: Tony, Sr., Tony, Jr., and Mike. I think a couple of other brothers boxed too.

The Foremans: George, Freeda and Monk.

[Dubblechin]

Definitely Leon, Michael and Cory Spinks (Leon's son). Each was recognized as a "world" champion (at heavyweight, light heavyweight and welterweight respectively). Plus, Leon and Michael both won Olympic Gold medals.

Three different "undisputed" champions and two Olympic Gold medals in one family is hard to beat.

Below them, I'd include the Klitschko brothers (two Ring champions and one Gold medal between them). The Canizales brothers (Gaby and Orlando) both won titles. I don't think anyone mentioned them, yet. There were the Curry brothers (Donald, Bruce and Graylin). Donald and Bruce both won titles. The Mayweathers (Brothers Roger, Floyd Sr. and Jeff ... followed by Floyd Jr.). Only Floyd Jr. and Roger were champs.

Someone mentioned Floyd Patterson and Tracy Harris Patterson. But Tracy was adopted as an adult by Floyd and he wasn't Floyd's natural son. Adopting an already successful boxer isn't the same as having a brother or son from the same gene pool. That said, Floyd's brother, Raymond, was also a fringe heavyweight in the 1960s.

[littlepug]

The Hilton brothers did pretty well, also the future looks bright for the smiths and almost forgot the mckenzies

[Duch]

Definitely Leon, Michael and Cory Spinks (Leon's son). Each was recognized as a "world" champion (at heavyweight, light heavyweight and welterweight respectively). Plus, Leon and Michael both won Olympic Gold medals.

Three different "undisputed" champions and two Olympic Gold medals in one family is hard to beat.

Below them, I'd include the Klitschko brothers (two Ring champions and one Gold medal between them). The Canizales brothers (Gaby and Orlando) both won titles. I don't think anyone mentioned them, yet. There were the Curry brothers (Donald, Bruce and Graylin). Donald and Bruce both won titles. The Mayweathers (Brothers Roger, Floyd Sr. and Jeff ... followed by Floyd Jr.). Only Floyd Jr. and Roger were champs.

Someone mentioned Floyd Patterson and Tracy Harris Patterson. But Tracy was adopted as an adult by Floyd and he wasn't Floyd's natural son. Adopting an already successful boxer isn't the same as having a brother or son from the same gene pool. That said, Floyd's brother, Raymond, was also a fringe heavyweight in the 1960s.

Consisting of more than two members of same family I'm going with the spinks all 3 won world titles and also 2 Olympic gold

[Broomhall]

The Canadian Hilton family have to be up there. Davey and Matt both world champions and real tough guys, Alex and Stewart also pros, Alex Canadian Middleweight champion and I think Stewart killed in a car accident.

The Dad and grandfather also boxers I seem to recall. Had chaotic and troubled lives but great fighters.

In Britain the Smiths are a pretty successful family with 4 pros, Paul and Stephen British champions, Paul due to box for world title and Stephen world ranked, Callum and Liam progressing well as pros-all top quality amateurs.

[DaveyMac]

The Bizzarro's from Erie, Pennsylvania have had I believe 12 professional fighters. Lou was 31-2 and fought Roberto Duran for the LW world title. Johnny Boy was 32-6 (Boxrec has him as 38-9 but they are combining the record of him and a cousin who went 6-3-1) and he won WBF, IBC and IBO titles, the latter of which he lost to Roger Mayweather. The older Johnny was 56-11 and fought Carlos Ortiz for the LW world title. A younger Lou was 24-3.

I'm working now on sorting out their records and biographical info for boxrec, (none of them were born with last name Florio), so their records aren't all perfectly accurate currently.

Regardless seems like they'd have to be in the discussion somewhere.

[Dubblechin]

Siblings ... Chris Byrd, Antoine Byrd, Tracy Byrd, Patrick Byrd (father Joe Byrd - who was an Olympic boxing coach) and their first cousin Lamon Brewster. Chris and Lamon won heavyweight titles. Traci won a couple of women's belts.

Mike Weaver and his triplet brothers (Floyd, Lloyd and Troy). Mike was a heavyweight champion. None of the triplets won titles (that I know of).

Julio Cesar Chavez, Chavez Jr. and Omar Chavez. Julio Senior and Junior were both champs.

Julio, Joel and Antonio Diaz. Julio was a lightweight champion. Antonio was a very exciting, top contender during his day. Joel is now a top trainer. They were all in Julio's corner when he fought Thurman.

Tim Witherspoon, Anthony Witherspoon and their cousin Chazz Witherspoon. Terrible Tim was the only champ of the bunch.

I'm sure there are also quite a few of distant or "half" brothers - like Mike Tyson and Cliff Couser (who had the same dad).

[Roars Like Me]

It's not the most successful as they have already been mentioned so an honourable nod goes to the Alvarez brothers of Canelo, Ramon, Ricardo and Rigoberto.

[Leonid]

Everyone is forgetting a recent record of Kamedas who became the first 3 brothers to hold world titles simultaneously.
Also former world champs Eric and Diego Morales have a younger brother Ivan, who is an undefeated prospect.

[palooka]

The Curry's - Bruce and Don were very good fighters.

The Ingles in Sheffield are a very successful boxing family - the father boxed and then trained and managed fighters with his sons.

[Tinnie]

The Famechons did quite well for themselves..... brothers Ray, Andre, Alfred and Emile.... Andre's son was "Fammo" Johnny Famechon....

.....it would be fascinating to see if there are any 3 successive generations of boxers within a family with any relative success

[Tomasino]

Juan and Rafael Marquez.

Ronnie Simms and Marvin Hagler.

[evrenb]

Has anyone mentioned the Ali's???

Muhammad - he was pretty good
Rahman - who was average
Laila - She was gorgeous...


just seen that they were mentioned earlier ....

[Cutman Scabbers]

Don't forget the Ruelas brothers!

[evrenb]

I know the original post said more than two family members but Khaosai and kaokor galaxy were very successful....

[Roars Like Me]

Has anyone mentioned the Ali's???

Muhammad - he was pretty good
Rahman - who was average
Laila - She was gorgeous...


just seen that they were mentioned earlier ....

Is Laila ugly now then

[evrenb]

Has anyone mentioned the Ali's???

Muhammad - he was pretty good
Rahman - who was average
Laila - She was gorgeous...


just seen that they were mentioned earlier ....

Is Laila ugly now then

Yes...all those punches on the nose!!!

[misterpunch]

phhhewwieeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bodyshot3]

The Toweels from South Africa deserve a nod.....

[Chuck1052]

How about Mike and Tommy Gibbons along with Mike's son, Jack? Another successful boxing family was the Zivics from Pittsburgh.

- Chuck Johnston