Finding any boxer from the current number 1

[Shirow]

Just curious if anyone else does this. I've been doing this for years and years.

Whenever I want to find a boxer's record I never search by name, I click the current number 1 at their weight class and click through opponents until I get to them using my encyclopedic knowledge of the sport.

I watched some Calzaghe career retrospective on Youtube the other day and wondered after the shellacking that Jeff Lacy took how many fights he had after that and how long until he boxed again.

So I went..

Alvarez
Callum Smith
George Groves
Froch
Ward
Sullivan Barerra
Lacy

There might be a quicker way of doing that one but I always get there in the end. So is this just me?

The answers were 11 fights over almost 9 years and 9 months.

[bigjack]

Just curious if anyone else does this. I've been doing this for years and years.

Whenever I want to find a boxer's record I never search by name, I click the current number 1 at their weight class and click through opponents until I get to them using my encyclopedic knowledge of the sport.

I watched some Calzaghe career retrospective on Youtube the other day and wondered after the shellacking that Jeff Lacy took how many fights he had after that and how long until he boxed again.

So I went..

Alvarez
Callum Smith
George Groves
Froch
Ward
Sullivan Barerra
Lacy

There might be a quicker way of doing that one but I always get there in the end. So is this just me?

The answers were 11 fights over almost 9 years and 9 months.

Not just you,i always do the same,especially if I can't spell a certain name I just go from opponent to opponent to fnd them

[watsupdoc87]

Done it last night to find silva. Knew he just beat Chavez jr so clicked on Canelo and scrolled down to his fight with jr through to silva

[Boxerbeetle]

Yeah I do the same, although I’m too modest to say I have an “encyclopedic knowledge of the sport” Have gone down the rabbit hole plenty of times and ended up looking at some super obscure guys/shows as a result.

[TheGman]

Just curious if anyone else does this. I've been doing this for years and years.

Whenever I want to find a boxer's record I never search by name, I click the current number 1 at their weight class and click through opponents until I get to them using my encyclopedic knowledge of the sport.

I watched some Calzaghe career retrospective on Youtube the other day and wondered after the shellacking that Jeff Lacy took how many fights he had after that and how long until he boxed again.

So I went..

Alvarez
Callum Smith
George Groves
Froch
Ward
Sullivan Barerra
Lacy

There might be a quicker way of doing that one but I always get there in the end. So is this just me?

The answers were 11 fights over almost 9 years and 9 months.

Me too but then end up down a rabbit hole of who fought who and forget who I was checking out in the first place lol

[Shirow]

Yeah I do the same, although I’m too modest to say I have an “encyclopedic knowledge of the sport” Have gone down the rabbit hole plenty of times and ended up looking at some super obscure guys/shows as a result.

My encyclopedic knowledge line was just me teeing myself up for someone to get from Canelo to Lacy in 3 or something.
And yeah, more often than not I end up seeing names of boxers is forgotten about and seeing what they did with their careers.

[My T Sharp]

Canelo
Yildirim
Glen Johnson
Roy Jones Jr
Lacy

[gp.]

Alvarez
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
Andy Lee
Peter Quillan
J'Leon Love
Rufus Defibaugh

[gp.]

And continuing from above, in reverse order:
Rufus Defibaugh
J'Leon Love
Peter Quillan
Andy Lee
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr
Alvarez
Mayweather Jr
De La Hoya
Bernard Hopkins
Roy Jones Jr
John Ruiz
Holyfield
George Foreman
Muhammad Ali


14 steps between the Greatest of All Time and a guy who posts rubbish here about bare knuckle gypsy fights.