Top 5 crazy boxing facts

[Ruthless-RKO]

1. Did you know that Len Wickwar stepped in the professional ring for impressive 463 times between 1928 and 1947. He won (336 times) and lost (127 times) more than any other boxer.

2. Young Otto is probably the guy no one wants to mess around with as he holds the record for most consecutive KO’s in the first round.

3. A two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman has made a lot more money by simply selling grills than from his prominent boxing career. Now that’s a punch that probably hurts.

4. Did you know that boxing gloves are superiorly more dangerous than bare knuckle boxing? They have, statistically, resulted in more casualties. They were not introduced into the ring for safety! Their purpose was to increase hit-to-head ratio and pomp up knockout drama.

5. John Heenan, a pro boxer was beaten badly enough one time in a bare knuckle match that an actual artist was hired to capture his injuries in oil for next generations to admire. Imagine what an impressive sight that was!

[gilgamesh]

I would think Gloves were introduced to protect fighters from breaking their hands too. Breaking your hand would be common as hell in Bareknuckle Boxing matches

[Keko]

I would think Gloves were introduced to protect fighters from breaking their hands too. Breaking your hand would be common as hell in Bareknuckle Boxing matches

That's right.

[Boxing Prospect]

A strange fact - recently passed Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej ruled his country during the reigns of EVERY Thai boxing world champion

His rule began in June 1946 and Thailand's first world champion was Pone Kingpetch, who was crowned in April 1960

[boxingknockout]

Pete Rademacher is the only man to challenge for the world heavyweight championship in his first pro fight against Floyd Patterson. He even scored a knockdown even though he ultimately got battered in 6 rounds

[keithmoonhangover]

2. Young Otto is probably the guy no one wants to mess around with as he holds the record for most consecutive KO’s in the first round.

That's wrong. Ali Raymi had far more. Ali had 20. Otto had 8. Edwin Valero had more that Otto as well. One Round Hogan had loads, but they weren't confirmed.

[Tony1244]

I think the whole Jimmy Young - Ron Lyle - Muhammad Ali thing was kind of weird.

Fact One: Young shutouts Lyle in upset in Hawaii basically winning every round.

Fact Two: Lyle gets the title fight and is ahead of Ali, after 10 rounds !

So a guy who gets shutout by a supposed Philly club fighter is ahead of the Great Ali after 10. Weird.

Foreman never being knocked down in his 80s, 90s comeback is also amazing.

[Ricky_]

Surely the "fan man" is the top crazy boxing fact.

[boxingknockout]

As per another thread Georges Carpentier fought at EVERY weight in boxing, even under the modern straw weight limit

[Enlightened-One]

As per another thread Georges Carpentier fought at EVERY weight in boxing, even under the modern straw weight limit

Is this actually a genuine claim, because his BoxRec resume doesn't quite tally to the sentence that you've written?

Very few of his fights had an official weight and from when he was 18 years old, he mainly campaigned in the modern day equivalent of super-middleweight and light heavyweight divisions. He's never "officially" weighed less than 105lbs, so how can he have campaigned as a straw weight? He's never weighed more than 175lbs either (unless you're only counting the handful of weight classes that existed 100 years ago, which kind of diminishes the original claim itself).

Am I missing something? I'm not saying you're wrong, as I'm not overly familiar with boxers that competed 100 years ago, but I just don't quite understand your claims.

[boxingknockout]

As per another thread Georges Carpentier fought at EVERY weight in boxing, even under the modern straw weight limit

Is this actually a genuine claim, because his BoxRec resume doesn't quite tally to the sentence that you've written?

Very few of his fights had an official weight and from when he was 18 years old, he mainly campaigned in the modern day equivalent of super-middleweight and light heavyweight divisions. He's never "officially" weighed less than 105lbs, so how can he have campaigned as a straw weight? He's never weighed more than 175lbs either (unless you're only counting the handful of weight classes that existed 100 years ago, which kind of diminishes the original claim itself).

Am I missing something? I'm not saying you're wrong, as I'm not overly familiar with boxers that competed 100 years ago, but I just don't quite understand your claims.

Well it's a long time ago so records are hazy but:
http://boxrec.com/boxer/10604

But the lowest registered weight is 105 lbs and he found for the world heavyweight championship against Jack Dempsey even though he only weighed 172 lbs