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Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 12:26
by alexpaterson
66 :witzend: its so annoying when the names come up at the end you just cant think :witzend:

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 22 Apr 2009, 15:07
by Phenomenal-Nutrition
102 couldn't spell Akiwande right

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 10:05
by T.M.K
Hi gents,

109 with 1 minute to go: However I'm having the Sergei Lyakovich as I tried to smany different spellings and it wouldn't take any of them, plus "PINKON Thomas" as IBO champion was missing the L so I gave myself that one too.

109 officially, 111 in reality.

Pleased with that :-)

"T.M.K"


ps: Lee Savold and Dannel Nicholson escaped me. :roll:

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 23 Apr 2009, 11:31
by Carbo
89. I was super impressive from Marciano through Holmes, but where I lost it was between the fourth champ and Johnson, and then ofter proliferation. Guys like Brian Neilson and Liakovich and Brewster that, stupidly, I just didn't think of.

Tough, tough game

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 30 Apr 2009, 10:26
by oliverfennell
T.M.K wrote:Hi gents,

109 with 1 minute to go: However I'm having the Sergei Lyakovich as I tried to smany different spellings and it wouldn't take any of them, plus "PINKON Thomas" as IBO champion was missing the L so I gave myself that one too.

109 officially, 111 in reality.

Pleased with that :-)

"T.M.K"


ps: Lee Savold and Dannel Nicholson escaped me. :roll:
Thought I was leading the pack with 106 until I read this. Like you, couldn't get Lyakovich right (that's how I've always seen it spelled).

Pinklon Thomas IS spelled correctly, although that may have been fixed since you played. I missed him, in any case. Couldn't for the life of me remember who beat Witherspoon, was sure it was Dokes.

Somehow I forgot Schmelling! :oops:

That only leaves Savold, Thunder and Nielsen. Somehow I remembered Nicholson!

Not at all bad, but then I am a heavyweight anorak. :TU: Well, used to be before the current crop came along...

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 30 Apr 2009, 14:56
by Adamj1987
87 but forgot roy jones, ruiz, berbick and riddick bowe

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 01 May 2009, 03:47
by Wheelchair
Nearly...... 109!

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 01 May 2009, 04:51
by oliverfennell
Adamj1987 wrote:87 but forgot roy jones, ruiz, berbick and riddick bowe
How could you forget the unforgettable Ruiz?! :lol:

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 01 May 2009, 04:54
by Adamj1987
oliverfennell wrote:
Adamj1987 wrote:87 but forgot roy jones, ruiz, berbick and riddick bowe
How could you forget the unforgettable Ruiz?! :lol:
because after sebastian bergman (a german physisist) hes probably the most boring person alive :TU:

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 01 May 2009, 12:50
by bennie
Can anyone name two world heavyweight champions stopped on their debut?

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 01 May 2009, 12:53
by alexpaterson
bennie wrote:Can anyone name two world heavyweight champions stopped on their debut?
No cant think but Jack Johnson was stopped in his 3rd fight who were they?

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 02 May 2009, 04:35
by bennie
alexpaterson wrote:
bennie wrote:Can anyone name two world heavyweight champions stopped on their debut?
No cant think but Jack Johnson was stopped in his 3rd fight who were they?
Mike Weaver was stopped on his debut by Howard Smith and Bonecrusher Smith by James Broad (Crusher had a brave manager).
They were not 'proper' world heavyweight champs, of course, but Weaver gave a peak Larry Holmes a great fight and Crusher went the full 12 with a young, smouldering Mike Tyson (it was dull, I know). In today's boxing climate there are probably even more world heavyweight champs who lost their debut.

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 02 May 2009, 07:09
by Coco
I can't believe I forgot Jimmy Thunder!

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 02 May 2009, 07:56
by Jeff Thomas
Great game 81.... lol

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 02 May 2009, 08:01
by Coco
Jeff Thomas wrote:Great game 81.... lol

Nice to see you over here mate

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 02 May 2009, 08:05
by Jeff Thomas
Coco wrote:
Jeff Thomas wrote:Great game 81.... lol

Nice to see you over here mate
Cheers mate.... I only popped on to take the piss out of someone... But read through the forum and to be honest it seems to be more to my liking then the other one I was on. Sorry Coco- who are you?... did see it on a post somewhere....

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 02 May 2009, 10:30
by T.M.K
oliverfennell wrote:
T.M.K wrote:Hi gents,

109 with 1 minute to go: However I'm having the Sergei Lyakovich as I tried to smany different spellings and it wouldn't take any of them, plus "PINKON Thomas" as IBO champion was missing the L so I gave myself that one too.

109 officially, 111 in reality.

Pleased with that :-)

"T.M.K"


ps: Lee Savold and Dannel Nicholson escaped me. :roll:
Thought I was leading the pack with 106 until I read this. Like you, couldn't get Lyakovich right (that's how I've always seen it spelled).

Pinklon Thomas IS spelled correctly, although that may have been fixed since you played. I missed him, in any case. Couldn't for the life of me remember who beat Witherspoon, was sure it was Dokes.

Somehow I forgot Schmelling! :oops:

That only leaves Savold, Thunder and Nielsen. Somehow I remembered Nicholson!

Not at all bad, but then I am a heavyweight anorak. :TU: Well, used to be before the current crop came along...
Hi there Mr Fennell,

the WBC reign is listed as Pinklon Thomas, but in the 90's era I was missing an IBO champion who the author listed as "Pinkon" with no L, therefore it would not accept me "mis"spelling it ..... if you see what I mean.

:-)

"T.M.K"

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 07 May 2009, 02:49
by oliverfennell
T.M.K wrote:
oliverfennell wrote:
T.M.K wrote:Hi gents,

109 with 1 minute to go: However I'm having the Sergei Lyakovich as I tried to smany different spellings and it wouldn't take any of them, plus "PINKON Thomas" as IBO champion was missing the L so I gave myself that one too.

109 officially, 111 in reality.

Pleased with that :-)

"T.M.K"


ps: Lee Savold and Dannel Nicholson escaped me. :roll:
Thought I was leading the pack with 106 until I read this. Like you, couldn't get Lyakovich right (that's how I've always seen it spelled).

Pinklon Thomas IS spelled correctly, although that may have been fixed since you played. I missed him, in any case. Couldn't for the life of me remember who beat Witherspoon, was sure it was Dokes.

Somehow I forgot Schmelling! :oops:

That only leaves Savold, Thunder and Nielsen. Somehow I remembered Nicholson!

Not at all bad, but then I am a heavyweight anorak. :TU: Well, used to be before the current crop came along...
Hi there Mr Fennell,

the WBC reign is listed as Pinklon Thomas, but in the 90's era I was missing an IBO champion who the author listed as "Pinkon" with no L, therefore it would not accept me "mis"spelling it ..... if you see what I mean.

:-)

"T.M.K"
Ah, but did you know the game will accept surnames alone?

You would have gotten even more with the extra time that frees up!

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 07 May 2009, 02:50
by oliverfennell
bennie wrote:Can anyone name two world heavyweight champions stopped on their debut?
How about the only former world heavyweight champion to lose to a debutant AFTER winning his title?

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 07 May 2009, 03:53
by wouter
T.M.K wrote:Hi gents,

109 with 1 minute to go: However I'm having the Sergei Lyakovich as I tried to smany different spellings and it wouldn't take any of them, plus "PINKON Thomas" as IBO champion was missing the L so I gave myself that one too.

109 officially, 111 in reality.

Pleased with that :-)

"T.M.K"


ps: Lee Savold and Dannel Nicholson escaped me. :roll:
\

Same here. 109 with much time lost by spelling Lykhovich's name right. I somehow missed Bonecrusher Smith (as well as three IBO titlists).

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 07 May 2009, 10:00
by T.M.K
oliverfennell wrote:
bennie wrote:Can anyone name two world heavyweight champions stopped on their debut?
How about the only former world heavyweight champion to lose to a debutant AFTER winning his title?
Think that was Leon Spinks (vs the chap who used to post on here?)

"T.M.K"

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 07 May 2009, 23:13
by Grilling Machine
69, but that's not bad for me. I picked up some lesser-known ones but had a few bad misses.

Missed (with an asterisk for the ones I've never heard of):

Bob Fitzsimmons
Jim Jeffries
Marvin Hart*
Tommy Burns*
Max Schmeling
Jack Sharkey
Primo Carnera
Max Baer
Ezzard Charles
Lee Savold*
Jersey Joe
Ernie Terrell
Jimmy Ellis
Leon Spinks
John Tate
Mike Weaver
Michael Dokes
Gerrie Coetzee
Greg Page
Tony Tubbs
Michael Spinks
Bonecrusher Smith
Tony Tucker
Francesco Damiani*
Buster Douglas
Herbie Hide
Danell Nicholson*
Jimmy Thunder
Bruce Seldon
Brian Nielsen
John Ruiz
Hasim Rahman
Corrie Sanders
Lamon Brewster
Sergei Liakhovich
Shannon Briggs
Sultan Ibragimov
Samuel Peter

Re: Heavyweight game. Can you get them all

Posted: 08 May 2009, 02:59
by oliverfennell
T.M.K wrote:
oliverfennell wrote:
bennie wrote:Can anyone name two world heavyweight champions stopped on their debut?
How about the only former world heavyweight champion to lose to a debutant AFTER winning his title?
Think that was Leon Spinks (vs the chap who used to post on here?)

"T.M.K"
Yep, John Carlo beat Leon Spinks for the distinction of being the only boxer to beat a former world heavyweight champion on his debut.

A feat that is somehow overshadowed in certain circles by later featuring in the only pro boxing match between two BoxRec posters (Johnny Bombs v American Clubfighter).