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Any spring to mind?

Really nobody comes to mind. There are some good ones who won less than 70% though.

Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑15 Dec 2022, 17:06 Really nobody comes to mind. There are some good ones who won less than 70% though.

I thought you would have known one or two Alp. In my head, Freddie Pendleton and Battling Siki both had losing records, but not when I checked, they were far from it. I'll start us off with..........

Mark Wills (14-18-1) - Two wins over Greg Page and victories over Mike White and Derek Williams.

Big Foot Martin (20-31-1) - Good wins over Tim Witherspoon and Bert Cooper.

I'm sure that an old time World Champion finished with a losing record. Hmmmm.

good question...might be a former champ./contender who went the journeyman route . i noticed the other day that briedis prescott isnt holding onto a winning record by much these days

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑15 Dec 2022, 17:27 good question...might be a former champ./contender who went the journeyman route . i noticed the other day that briedis prescott isnt holding onto a winning record by much these days

I think it'll either be someone who was matched too strong too early, hit the heights and then lost a lot on the say back down (I thought Steve Robinson). Or A journeyman with some good wins. Or someone who stayed at the table for far too long (I thought Danny Williams).

Teddy 'Red Top' Davis - finished with a 71-75-6 record, yet, beat Paddy DeMarco, Charley Riley, George Araujo, Percy Bassett, Tommy Collins and went 15 rounds with Sandy Saddler for the featherweight title.

Milo Savage was sub .500 also

Kamil Sokolowski gonna be.

Leroy Caldwell and Roy Wallace were both very capable heavyweights with losing records.

Larry Gains.

Woller wrote: ↑16 Dec 2022, 08:13Larry Gains.

I don't think he had a losing record. Are we talking about the same guy?

https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/13324

My mistanke. I read it as good boxers ending with several losses. (English is not me first language)

Woller wrote: ↑16 Dec 2022, 12:15 My mistanke. I read it as good boxers ending with several losses. (English is not me first language)

No worries, brother.

scartissue wrote: ↑15 Dec 2022, 19:58 Teddy 'Red Top' Davis - finished with a 71-75-6 record, yet, beat Paddy DeMarco, Charley Riley, George Araujo, Percy Bassett, Tommy Collins and went 15 rounds with Sandy Saddler for the featherweight title.

That's gotta be the one I'd think.

Francisco Quiroz – former WBA Light-Flyweight champion finished with an 11-15 win-loss record.

Demarcus Corley

wrighty wrote: ↑18 Dec 2022, 09:07 Demarcus Corley

I doubt he'll ever catch all the way up to the amount of wins he has with the loss column, but damn if he ain't piling 'em on

His most recent one was in October this year, so he probably still has some more losses in him.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑18 Dec 2022, 13:47

wrighty wrote: ↑18 Dec 2022, 09:07 Demarcus Corley

I doubt he'll ever catch all the way up to the amount of wins he has with the loss column, but damn if he ain't piling 'em on

His most recent one was in October this year, so he probably still has some more losses in him.

He can turn it on at times. That Paul McCloskey fight was testament. I hope he is making money at least!

Darnell Boone was a decent fighter ending with a 24-25-5 record. Wins over the unbeaten Adonis Stevenson and
Willie Monroe Jnr plus he dropped Andre Ward and held Kovalev to a SD (might have dropped him as well)

Anytime this kind of comes up I'm reminded of Reggie Strickland who was far better than his record ever suggested because Reggie would purposely lose on purpose only to make a big bet on himself and beat some undefeated prospect and run away with the money.

How good Reggie really was nobody will ever really know but from basically welterweight to heavyweight he rarely ever got stopped. The few guys I knew who knew Reggie personally said that he had all the skills and abilities to have been a world champion if he wanted to be but it was just easier making money losing.

I think there was a thread similar to these a few years ago.
It was about how some famous boxer's ring records
would have greatly improverd
iF all fights over the age of 35 yrs old
were deemed nulified and void from their ring record.
I remember how fast a lot of once famous boxers
boxing abilities just about completly collapsed after age 36 yrs.

Jim Barry the useful 1900's heavyweight. Lots of newspaper losses in there.