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Which British champion's first three defences were all against the same opponent?

danny williams? shot in the dark....without checking the record.

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:Which British champion's first three defences were all against the same opponent?

Colin Power?

Great guesses off the top of your heads lad. But no.

Actually, I suppose this could have happened more than once but I only know one.

I'm guessing its a 50's heavyweight?

DavidPayne wrote:I'm guessing its a 50's heavyweight?

A big man who fought in three different decades.

Cooper.

henry cooper - won it off brian london and first three defences against joe erskine

Who won a British title in September 2000 - and lost it exactly a month later.

Tommy Waite?

I looked it up coz I was sick of being frustrated. Story of my life

Tommy Waite

DavidPayne wrote:Tommy Waite?

I looked it up coz I was sick of being frustrated. Story of my life

Yes, well done. Thought that was a hard one.

journeyman wrote:henry cooper - won it off brian london and first three defences against joe erskine

Yes, fought Erskine five times in all, losing the first two, winning the last three!

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:

journeyman wrote:henry cooper - won it off brian london and first three defences against joe erskine

Yes, fought Erskine five times in all, losing the first two, winning the last three!

They fought a couple of times as Amatuers as well.

What about two fighters meeting three times in succession for a genuine World title belt. Two of which ended in disqualification?

Norris and Santana wasn't it?

Great knowledge MW. Christ, it's frightening the stuff I've completely forgotten about! Norris-Santana was an absolutely hilarious series!

MightyWarrior wrote:Norris and Santana wasn't it?

That was one bizzare trilogy.

Spot on.

Yeah poor old Terry couldn't get it right, he kept knocking the bloke out, but somehow managed to hit him while he was on the canvas too, if I remember rightly.

Santana must be among the select band of few who've won a world title fights twice, while being flat out on the canvas ( or unconcious ).

MightyWarrior wrote:Yeah poor old Terry couldn't get it right, he kept knocking the bloke out, but somehow managed to hit him while he was on the canvas too, if I remember rightly.

Santana must be among the select band of few who've won a world title fights twice, while being flat out on the canvas ( or unconcious ).

You should have waited a couple of months (or in my case a couple of hours) until we'd forgotten this then asked that question - a corker!

Not a trivia question as such (cause I don't know the answer) but what was the name of the guy who also won a title when flat on his back via DQ a month or so after Santana's second match with Norris. I think he was an Argentinina and I'm not sure but memory seems to think that Frankie Randall was the champion.

You might be thinking of Juan Martin Coggi:

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=008166

Seem to remember it was a pretty awful clash of heads. Damned shit way to lose a world title too.

Ian 'Mr' McNeilly wrote:You might be thinking of Juan Martin Coggi:

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=008166

Seem to remember it was a pretty awful clash of heads. Damned shit way to lose a world title too.

Yes, thought so but wasn't 100% sure of the name. If I remember, Randall was doing a number at the time also.

Edit - just checked out his record and it was a TD and not a DQ win, so obviously Randall wasn't having things his own way - however, I still remember reading that there only looked like one winner at the time of the stoppage.

Did I dream it, or did some guy recently win a version of the world heavyweight title (at least I think it was heavyweight) three times running without winning any of them. Got like draws or No Contests three times in a row. Anyone know who I am thinking of, coz I can't think? It was in the last year or so.