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Is never allowing yourself to be beaten the most important trait to possess as a boxer regarding History's placement?
NO!RoccoMarciano said:Is never allowing yourself to be beaten the most important trait to possess as a boxer regarding History's placement?
german former supermiddleweight champion sven ottke springs to mind, he retired back in 2004 as champion with 22 defences with around 34 wins, no defeats and no draws. (34-0-0).hhascup said:NO!
It's important BUT it's not the only thing. It's who you beat that is much more important then that.
I can name a lot of boxers that retired undefeated and very few if any of them would be rated on top of their division.
it says 0 next to the loss colum though.Brutus said:Sven Otke shouldave lost about 4 fights but almost all of his fights were in Germany and his opponents constantly got robbedþ
excellant work again henry, i wouldn't class any of those guys as the best in there division.hhascup said:Here's some of the more well known boxers that retired undefeated:
Rocky Marciano - World Heavyweight Champion - 49 (43) - 0 (0) - 0
Samson Dutch Boy Gym - WBF Super Flyweight Champion - 43 (36) - 0 (0) – 0
Jimmy Barry - World Paperweight Champion (110lbs) - 58 (38) - 0 (0) - 10
Jemal Hinton - WBC Continental Americas Super Bantamweight Campion - 22 (17) - 0 (0) – 0
Sven Ottke - WBA & IBF Super Middleweight Champion - 34 (6) - 0 (0) - 0
Ji Won Kim - IBF Super Bantamweight Champion - 16 (7) - 0 (0) - 2
Michael Loewe - WBO Welterweight Champion - 28 (10) - 0 (0) - 0
Ricardo Lopez - IBF Light Flyweight Champion - 51 (38) - 0 (0) - 1
Terry Marsh - IBF Light Welterweight Champion - 26 (10) - 0 (0) - 1
Ike Ibeabuchi - WBC International Heavyweight Champion - 20 (15) - 0 (0) - 0
Pichit Sitbangprachan IBF Flyweight Champion 24 (18) - 0 (0) – 0
Mzukisi Skweyiya - South African Non-White Bantamweight Champion - 21 (7) - 0 (0) – 1
Jack McAuliffe - World Lightweight Champion - 34 (23) - 0 (0) – 5
Edson Pedro Nascimento - UBC Ibero-American Lightweight Champion - 47 (40) - 0 (0) - 1
Horace Notice - Commonwealth (BE) Heavyweight Belt-holder - 16 (12) - 0 (0) - 0
Sven Ottke - WBA & IBF Super Middleweight Champion - 34 (6) - 0 (0) - 0
Laszlo Papp - EBU (European) Middleweight Champion - 27 (15) - 0 (0) - 2
Kirk Daley - (1988-1994) Former Jr. Middleweight Contender - 19 (18) - 0 (0) - 0
Scott Daley - (1986-1998) Former Middleweight Contender - 24 (24) - 0 (0) - 0
George Kandelaki - (1998-2003) Former Heavyweight Contender - 24 (18) - 0 (0) - 0
Rickey Womack (defeated Holyfield 3 times in the amateur) 13-0-1
Vinny Letizia - (1990-1993) Former Welterweight Contender 16 (14) - 0 (0) - 1
I have done a research and I found approx. 1,300 boxers that won at least 5 bouts, that have retired undefeated.
Like I said, I have researched this and found a lot more. In fact if you count all the boxers that had at least 5 wins, I came up with approx. 1,300 boxers that were undefeated.TommyGunn said:excellant work again henry, i wouldn't class any of those guys as the best in there division.
marciano, ottke, lopez could be argued in the top 5-10 in there weight classes IMO.
hey henry, do you know the names of all the guys with perfect records?hhascup said:Like I said, I have researched this and found a lot more. In fact if you count all the boxers that had at least 5 wins, I came up with approx. 1,300 boxers that were undefeated.
Yes I do, BUT it's too many put here. I am going to have in published in a few weeks.TommyGunn said:hey henry, do you know the names of all the guys with perfect records?
no draws or no contests?
Let's bump the numbers up a bit... oh let's say 49-0-0, and only including the HW division.hhascup said:Yes I do, BUT it's too many put here. I am going to have in published in a few weeks.
Here's a couple more:
Agustin Senin – (1967-1972) Spanish & EBU (European) Bantamweight Champion - 42 (21) - 0 (0) – 1
Gurcharan Singh (2001-2004) Former Cruiserweight 17 (10) - 0 (0) - 0
Jimmy Wilde (Moisés Ortenberg) - (1935-1943) Argentina - 37 (15) - 0 (0) - 5
RoccoMarciano said:Let's bump the numbers up a bit... oh let's say 49-0-0, and only including the HW division.
Glad you know.. comparing him to fighters that only fought 5 times or so is silly!hhascup said:We all know the answer to that one, Rocky Marciano.
RoccoMarciano said:Glad you know.. comparing him to fighters that only fought 5 times or so is silly!
Those current guys will likely have as much success as Valuev, if you catch my drift. The closest has what.... 13 to go......hhascup said:There many that retired undefeated and had a lot more then 5 wins (not bouts).
Once again, It's not your record that you go by, It's who you fought that is more important.
Here's some current Heavyweights that are undefeated.
Faruq Saleem is 36 (32) - 0 (0) - 0
Joe Mesi is 35 (28) - 0 (0) - 0
Malik Scott is 29 (10) - 0 (0) - 0
JD Chapman is 27 (24) - 0 (0) - 0
Donnell Holmes is 27 (24) - 0 (0) - 2
David Rodriguez is 26 (25) - 0 (0) - 0
Alonzo Butler is 26 (19) - 0 (0) - 1
Travis Walker is 25 (19) - 0 (0) - 1
Chazz Witherspoon is 19 (13) - 0 (0) - 0
TommyGunn said:german former supermiddleweight champion sven ottke springs to mind, he retired back in 2004 as champion with 22 defences with around 34 wins, no defeats and no draws. (34-0-0).
in reality though ottke isnt rated in the top 5 168 guys ever.
Any 49-0-0? Except for one.hhascup said:Jimmy Barry - World Paperweight Champion (110lbs) - 58 (38) - 0 (0) - 10
Ricardo Lopez - IBF Light Flyweight Champion - 51 (38) - 0 (0) - 1
Rocky Marciano - World Heavyweight Champion - 49 (43) - 0 (0) - 0
Edson Pedro Nascimento - UBC Ibero-American Lightweight Champion - 47 (40) - 0 (0) - 1
Samson Dutch Boy Gym - WBF Super Flyweight Champion - 43 (36) - 0 (0) – 0
Agustin Senin – (1967-1972) Spanish & EBU (European) Bantamweight Champion - 42 (21) - 0 (0) – 1
Jimmy Wilde (Moisés Ortenberg) - (1935-1943) Argentina - 37 (15) - 0 (0) - 5
Young Mitchell – American Featherweight, Australian Lightweight, PC Welterweight, and PC Middleweight Claimant - 35-0-6 (BoxRec only has 5-0-4)
Sven Ottke - WBA & IBF Super Middleweight Champion - 34 (6) - 0 (0) - 0
Jack McAuliffe - World Lightweight Champion - 34 (23) - 0 (0) – 5
Bobby Campbell - Lightweight - (1935-1940) 30 (3) - 0 (0) - 3
Also, still active:
Paul Spadafora (1995-2007) The Pittsburgh Kid Welterweight 40 (16) - 0 (0) - 1
If he kept boxing he wouldn't be undefeated either.RoccoMarciano said:Any 49-0-0? Except for one.
i still dont know what the judges were thinking, i had Pernell winning that fight easy, imo one of the worst robberys ever.hhascup said:If he kept boxing he wouldn't be undefeated either.
Julio Cesar Chavez was 87-0-0 when he fought Pernell Whitaker to a draw.