Fighters who have never been stopped/knocked down
I thought one of the more incredible streaks in boxing ended last week when Peter sent James Toney to the canvas. It was Toney's first knockdown in over 12 years, and even the knockdown against Roy Jones was half punch/half slip.
However, Toney has still never been stopped in 79 career fights.
Who are the other fighters of the modern era who have never been stopped?
Even most of the great fighters of the modern era have been stopped at least once in their career. Ali, Ray Leonard, Duran, Frazier, Foreman, Norton, Hearns, Trinidad, Barrera, Holyfield, Tyson, Morales, Pacquiao, Azumah Nelson, Lewis, De La Hoya, Chavez, Holmes, Spinks, were all stopped at one time or another.
Off the top of my head, the only longtime fighters who have never lost by KO or TKO are Toney, Hopkins, Mosley, Hagler, Bowe, Lopez. Whitaker lost by TKO in his last fight, but it was because he hurt his shoulder throwing a punch, he was never stopped by an opponent. Winky has never been stopped, although he was knocked down 5 times in a fight once.
I know guys like Mayweather, Taylor, Tarver haven't been stopped, but they haven't fought the same number of fights as the other guys. Let's make it a minimum of 40 career fights. Who else is on the list?
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Ike Quartey
Juan Manuel Marquez
Joel Casamayor
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Ike Quartey
Juan Manuel Marquez
Joel Casamayor
Casamayor has been down a couple of times. Ike too.
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Ike Quartey
Juan Manuel Marquez
Joel Casamayor
Casamayor has been down a couple of times. Ike too.
Read his post again. I think he's looking for fighters who never been stopped. Cuz damn near every one he named has been dropped before
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Ike Quartey
Juan Manuel Marquez
Joel Casamayor
Casamayor has been down a couple of times. Ike too.
Read his post again. I think he's looking for fighters who never been stopped. Cuz damn near every one he named has been dropped before
Ya primarily I'm looking for guys who have never been stopped. So someone like Quartey qualifies, even though he's been knocked down.
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Hagler was never stopped and only down once, which was contentious.
Chris Eubank was only stopped on eye swelling.
Hatton and Calzaghe are both past 40 fights without stoppages although at least 30 each of the fights have been mismatches at the stage of their career.
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Oh, one more thing, before someone tries to post it, Valuev doesn't count!
When your best opponent is John Ruiz, you lose the privilege of making my list.
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Barry Mcguigan was only stopped on a cut too, and has never been on the canvas as a pro.
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Winky Wright
Vitali Klitschko
Ike Ibeabuchi
Joe Calzaghe
Jermain Taylor
Arthur Abraham
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Ricky Hatton
Juan Manuel Marquez
I'm sure that there are more...but those are the only ones that really click right off the button for me as fighters that have never been knocked out...some of those have'nt been downed either.
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Winky Wright
Vitali Klitschko
Ike Ibeabuchi
Joe Calzaghe
Jermain Taylor
Arthur Abraham
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Ricky Hatton
Juan Manuel Marquez
I'm sure that there are more...but those are the only ones that really click right off the button for me as fighters that have never been knocked out...some of those have'nt been downed either.
Sorry...I missed this:
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I know guys like Mayweather, Taylor, Tarver haven't been stopped, but they haven't fought the same number of fights as the other guys. Let's make it a minimum of 40 career fights. Who else is on the list?
Before posting my list...but I'll still leave it at that.
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Hopkins has never been stopped.
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Hopkins has never been stopped.
True...but he's been dropped 3 or 4 times.
Twice by Mercado, once by Mills Lane, & I think...that Echols downed him on a slip.
Hopkins is one tuff fwocker...still can never understand how people don't dig on my guy...but to each his or her own.
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Hagler was never stopped and only down once, which was contentious.
What was the argument over? Was it a slip?
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Oh, one more thing, before someone tries to post it, Valuev doesn't count!
Now that aint right. >:mad
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When your best opponent is John Ruiz, you lose the privilege of making my list.
You should be ashamed of yourself. John Ruiz has wrestled the best of 'em out of a win.
:coolclick: ;D
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Hagler was never stopped and only down once, which was contentious.
What was the argument over? Was it a slip?
Yeah it was first round, he was caught on his heels against Juan Domingo Roldan.
