Quiz
Posted: 14 Jul 2003, 12:18
Which boxer faced both in the ring...Jack Dempsey AND Joe Louis
......at a time when they were Champions ?
......at a time when they were Champions ?
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Posted: 14 Jul 2003, 15:04
Didn't Max Schmeling fight an exhibition with Dempsey once? Maybe that was the answer he's looking for.
Posted: 14 Jul 2003, 15:39
BINGO Cuban Hawk !!!The Cuban Hawk wrote:Didn't Max Schmeling fight an exhibition with Dempsey once? Maybe that was the answer he's looking for.
A 19year old Max Schmeling fought Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey in an exhibition back in February 1925 in Cologne (Germany)
...and his two fights with Joe Louis in 1936 (non-title-fight) and 1938 against Champion Joe are well known.
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Posted: 15 Jul 2003, 01:21
terap wrote:Friedie,
Here is one for you.
WHO IS THE ONLY FIGHTER TO BEAT BOTH FLOYD PATTERSON AND SUGAR RAY ROBINSON?
Joey Maxim
Posted: 15 Jul 2003, 12:34
there is no fighter who won three LEGITIMATE UNDISPUTED TITLES......while remaining undefeated.
I don't know what the answer is, but when it's posted i'm going to argue about it.
I don't know what the answer is, but when it's posted i'm going to argue about it.
Posted: 15 Jul 2003, 18:33
I am in total accord with terap on the three world titles business...armstrong and fitzsimmons and that is it...period.
re: Robinson/ maxim...the sugar man actually surprised me in doing as well as he did, as robinson spent so much of his time fightng welterweights and maxim fought a lot of good heavyweights and had a hell of chin and his not being a big puncher was deceptive as far as his strength was concerned.....the two do not necessarily correlate and he could move big guys around in the clinches.
it was pretty well known at the time of their fight that even if Robinson won he was not going to fight in that division....that he wanted to add the title to his rersume and retire. it wasn't so much his punch not being effective against the bigger boys...he was not a strong middleweight...like lamotta for example, who could rough house with anybody. plus..robinson would not have grown into that weight class....160 was his maximum.
there is a slight parrallell to this except for the retirement bit:
Benny Leonard was lightweight champion of the world when he challenged Jack Britton for the welterweight title. probably just wanted the pay day as he knocked Britton down and then blatantly hit him while he was down and got disqualified. The word was he had no intention of fighting as the welterweight champion at that time.
back to the three title quiz: is the "answer" DelaHoya? Actually there are so many "titles" I have no idea who it is...it's just that I think Delahoya had one of those wbo things at one time.
re: Robinson/ maxim...the sugar man actually surprised me in doing as well as he did, as robinson spent so much of his time fightng welterweights and maxim fought a lot of good heavyweights and had a hell of chin and his not being a big puncher was deceptive as far as his strength was concerned.....the two do not necessarily correlate and he could move big guys around in the clinches.
it was pretty well known at the time of their fight that even if Robinson won he was not going to fight in that division....that he wanted to add the title to his rersume and retire. it wasn't so much his punch not being effective against the bigger boys...he was not a strong middleweight...like lamotta for example, who could rough house with anybody. plus..robinson would not have grown into that weight class....160 was his maximum.
there is a slight parrallell to this except for the retirement bit:
Benny Leonard was lightweight champion of the world when he challenged Jack Britton for the welterweight title. probably just wanted the pay day as he knocked Britton down and then blatantly hit him while he was down and got disqualified. The word was he had no intention of fighting as the welterweight champion at that time.
back to the three title quiz: is the "answer" DelaHoya? Actually there are so many "titles" I have no idea who it is...it's just that I think Delahoya had one of those wbo things at one time.
Posted: 15 Jul 2003, 19:10
I thought Patterson was horribly robbed against Maxim. I rank that among the worst decisions I've ever seen.
Posted: 18 Jul 2003, 01:44
....uh....may I ask whom is the fighter the question asks about.....and remind me please of which titles he won.
thank you.
thank you.