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Im just watchnig an old fight while im taping some of my archive fights and noticed a boxer called Steve Garber, and ex heavyweight who once fought Lennox Lewis amongst others. But Garber fought a bloke called Mick Cawdon 6 times in his career. Got me thinking. Who else fought the same opponent many times in their career?

The great Dick Tiger was pretty much the king of the repeat and all against A-Grade competition.....makes you wince when you look at his record.

4 times with Joey Giardello...who would want to do that?
4 fights with Allan Dean when he was UK based (but not A-Grade)
3 times with Gene Fullmer and they were back-to-back
2 with Jose Torres
2 with Emile Griffith
2 with the decent Pat McAteer
2 fights with Spider Webb

Throw-in fights with Yolande Pompey, Don Fullmer, Nino Benevenuti, Rubin Carter and Bob Foster and that's a collection.

Sugar Ray Robinson boxed Gene Fulmer 4 or 5 times as well as Jake LaMotte 5 or 6 times.

joey giardello? all depends on if someone has had a word in his ear before the fight

that's a hell of a list to take on though - big credit to tiger. that guy had balls

Rexob wrote:Sugar Ray Robinson boxed Gene Fulmer 4 or 5 times as well as Jake LaMotte 5 or 6 times.

It was 6 times with LaMotta, sometimes giving away nearly 20 lbs.

Robinson also fought Carl "Bobo" Olson 4 times.

Walcott and Charles had 4 bouts. Kid Gavilan had 3 or 4 with Johnny Bratton. Gavilan had 3 with Ike Williams.

Scypion wrote:

Rexob wrote:Sugar Ray Robinson boxed Gene Fulmer 4 or 5 times as well as Jake LaMotte 5 or 6 times.

It was 6 times with LaMotta, sometimes giving away nearly 20 lbs.

Robinson also fought Carl "Bobo" Olson 4 times.

Walcott and Charles had 4 bouts. Kid Gavilan had 3 or 4 with Johnny Bratton. Gavilan had 3 with Ike Williams.

Ezzard Charles also fought Jimmy Bivens 5 times, a prime Archie Moore 3 times, Joey Maxim 5 times, Rex Layne 3 times, Lloyd Marshall 3 times, Charley Burley twice, Elmer Ray twice, and Rocky Marciano twice.

seeing as its not mentioned so far....the obvious one...

Jack Britton vs. Ted (Kid) Lewis (20th meeting)

http://boxrec.com/media/index.php/Jack_ ... meeting%29

Holman Williams and Cocoa Kid faced each other 13 times, Kid taking the series 8-3-2.

Sam Langford went (unless I've miscounted):
7-2-3 v Joe Jeanette
8-2-6 v Sam McVea
2-12-2 v Harry Wills

Scypion wrote:

Scypion wrote:

Rexob wrote:Sugar Ray Robinson boxed Gene Fulmer 4 or 5 times as well as Jake LaMotte 5 or 6 times.

It was 6 times with LaMotta, sometimes giving away nearly 20 lbs.

Robinson also fought Carl "Bobo" Olson 4 times.

Walcott and Charles had 4 bouts. Kid Gavilan had 3 or 4 with Johnny Bratton. Gavilan had 3 with Ike Williams.

Ezzard Charles also fought Jimmy Bivens 5 times, a prime Archie Moore 3 times, Joey Maxim 5 times, Rex Layne 3 times, Lloyd Marshall 3 times, Charley Burley twice, Elmer Ray twice, and Rocky Marciano twice.

now that is a list of top talent.

Harry Greb fought:

Whitey Wenzel x 10
Fay Keiser x 9
Chuck Wiggins x 9
Clay Turner x 7
Jeff Smith x 7
Battling Levinsky x 6
Bob Moha x 6
Bob Roper x 6
Tommy Loughran x 6
Zulu Kid x 5
Soldier Bartfield x 5
George ko Brown x 5
Gene Tunney x 5
Harry Baker x 4
George Chip x 4
Young Fisher x 4
Jackie Clark x 4
Joe Borrell x 4
Larry Williams x 4
Bill Brennan x 4
Tommy Gibbons x 4
Tiger Flowers x 3
Johnny Wilson x 3
Billy Miske x 3

... plus another dozen men also 3 times each!

Looking at some of those names, what a fighter Greb was!

it almost defies belief

How about Holman Williams

Cocoa Kid about 13 times
Charley Burley 6
Kid Tunero 3
Jose Basora 3
Lloyd Marshall 3
Jack Chase 2
Archie Moore 2

Very under-rated fighter.

Why no mention of tough Irishman Chicago lt. heavy, JIM BARRY ? He fought Sam Langford 12 times. He also met Jennette, 3x, Sam McVey 3x. In fact just like Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, he boxed almost every top larger black fighter of his era. O'Brien met black fighters 33 times and Barry about 30.