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Which three world champions grew up on the same street?


Name the all-time great who scored 59 knockouts in his career but not one in the first round?

umm, for some reason i am thinking LaMotta grew up on the same street as a fellow world champ.

could it be hagler, marciano and someone else?

carlos monzon

Thought it was Burley but He did it 4 times DD

im guessing its a pair of brothers who lived near someone else.

I'm also guessing its a big fighting city like New York or Philly. Still czn't work out who though. Hagler's half-bro, Robbie Sims was never a world champ was he?

bennie wrote:Which three world champions grew up on the same street?


Name the all-time great who scored 59 knockouts in his career but not one in the first round?

Klitschko brothers and Kotelnik?

Monzon?

Detroit boys as far as I can remember, I'm pretty sure it was Milton McCrory but can't remember for the life of me who the other two were now..

Detroit also sprang to mind for me....

Although maybe it's to do with Meldrick Taylor and Steve Little?

"T.M.K"

i know tommy hearns and milton mccory lived on the same block...

Loynesy wrote:i know tommy hearns and milton mccory lived on the same block...

his late brother Steve was an olympic champ, does that count?

May have been Duane Thomas not 100% sure though

Cotto and 2 other people from the same street were World Champs I think

I found this thread surprisingly uplifting. You were kind of struggling but also getting there at the same time.
Yes, Loynesy got Monzon first. The fiery Argentine scored those 59 knockouts but not one in the first round. He fought the last five years of his career with a bullet lodged in his shoulder.
Kevin also got much of it. The three world champs raised on Marx Street in the Motor City of Detroit were Duane Thomas, Milton McCrory and Jimmy Paul. Thomas was later shot and killed outside a store, Milton McCrory works in a car plant and Paul is a property magnate. Steve McCrory never won a world title, of course (although he challenged for one), and died some years ago.




Who is the world heavyweight champion with the most knockout wins?

Who refereed a world heavyweight title fight eight years before he challenged for the same title?

bennie wrote:I found this thread surprisingly uplifting. You were kind of struggling but also getting there at the same time.




Who is the world heavyweight champion with the most knockouts in his career?

Who refereed a world heavyweight title fight eight years before he challenged for the same title?

haha nice one, i had that impression too. you old tease, you.

most knockouts, god.... you don't mention if it's most ko's for, or against. or both. not that I'd get any closer I'm stumped

Counter-puncher wrote:

bennie wrote:I found this thread surprisingly uplifting. You were kind of struggling but also getting there at the same time.




Who is the world heavyweight champion with the most knockouts in his career?

Who refereed a world heavyweight title fight eight years before he challenged for the same title?

haha nice one, i had that impression too. you old tease, you.

most knockouts, god.... you don't mention if it's most ko's for, or against. or both. not that I'd get any closer I'm stumped

For. You would be surprised at the answer. That's actually a clue.

no it isn't a clue, as I knew it wouldn't be an 'obvious' one

trevor Berbick?

Counter-puncher wrote:no it isn't a clue, as I knew it wouldn't be an 'obvious' one

trevor Berbick?

'Fraid not.

Georges Carpentier, Primo Carnera... I think

bobmee wrote:Georges Carpentier, Primo Carnera... I think

Yes and yes.

The much-derided Carnera scored 69 career knockouts, the most ever for a world heavyweight champion; Ezzard Charles, "The Cincinnati Cobra", comes in second at 58. One of Ezzards's victims was Archie Moore in eight rounds (he licked Moore three times, twice on points). He also outscored an ageing Joe Louis, of course.

Carpentier, "The Orchid Man", refereed Jack Johnson's defence of his world heavyweight title against Frank Moran in 1914 in Paris (when Johnson was forced out of the States; he won on points over 20 rounds).
Carpentier challenged Jack Dempsey in 1921 for the same title. Carpentier really hurt Dempsey before he was overwhelmed and scored knockouts at every weight from flyweight upwards.

... and Brendan Ingle stole the story of how he came across Naz from Descamps story how he discovered Carpentier

Didn't George Foreman knock out more than Ezzard Charles? Think he did.

bobmee wrote:Didn't George Foreman knock out more than Ezzard Charles? Think he did.

You know a helluva more than me, Bob, so he must have done.

No, it's not that. I'm like everybody else, some things you get right, some things you don't. One big hitter that really fascinates me, who didn't even fight for the title, was Elmer 'Violent' Ray, who had an unbeaten run of more than 50 fights, beat Jersey Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles, but never got a title shot. According to the stats, which can only be approximate, he knocked out 70 of 86 people he beat (lost about 13). He's a bit mysterious, seems to have been born in Putnam County, Florida in either 1910 or 1911, and might have died in Los Angeles in the 1980s.

bobmee wrote:Didn't George Foreman knock out more than Ezzard Charles? Think he did.

Foreman had 68 KOs. Charles had just 52. Carnera actually had 72 BTW