Twenty Amazing Facts About Boxing
1. There are two forms of boxing – amateur and professional.
2. It is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds
3. Boxing as a sport dates back to ancient Greeks who made it part of Olympic games as early as 688 BC.
4. Onomastos Smyrnaios is the first winner in Olympic boxing of ancient Greek.
5. Boxing is also called pugilism.
6. Amateur boxing is an Olympic sport since its introduction in the 1904 Summer Olympic Games.
7. In Ancient Greek culture, the god, Apollo, was regarded as the inventor and guardian of the sport of boxing.
8. Archie Moore holds the record for most knockouts during a career — a staggering 141.
9. The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue match by a referee or if an opponent is disqualified for breaking a rule, resigning by throwing in a towel, or by judges’ scorecards at the end of the bout.
10. The most prolific boxer in history was Great Britain’s Len Wickwar who, between 1928 and 1947, fought 463 bouts. He also holds the records for the most wins (336) and most losses (127) of any boxer.
11. George Foreman has made more money selling his grills than for his boxing career in which he was a 2-time heavyweight champion.
12. The record for most first round KO’s is held by Wilfred Benitez.
13. The most heavyweight title defenses is 25 by Joe Louis.
14. The youngest boxer to win a title is Wilfred Benitez at 17.
15. Boxing gloves are actually more dangerous and result in more deaths than bareknuckle boxing. In fact, gloves were introduced into boxing not for safety reasons, but to increase hits to the head and dramatic knockouts.
16. In 1949, an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.
17. Hall of Fame boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of a fight because he had a dream that he was going to kill his opponent in the ring. After a priest and minister convinced Robinson to fight, Robinson went into the ring and killed his opponent, Jimmy Doyle.
18. Ronda Rousey, UFC Women’s bantamweight champion, claims that having a lot of sex before a match is good for female fighters because it boosts testosterone levels.
19. Boxer John Heenan got his ass handed to him so badly in an 1860 bare knuckle boxing match that they hired an artist to capture his rearranged face in oil.
20. Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali reportedly went two months without sex before a big fight, claiming it made him unbeatable in the ring.
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Thank you for that information, welcome and Paul Kevin this is how you post. Hope you learn from this poster.
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Yeah, @Master , we all know you like a bit of Cut and Paste. :cool:
Welcome to the forum @abhik143
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Thank you for that information, welcome and Paul Kevin this is how you post. Hope you learn from this poster.
I liked that opening post.
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I'd hardly call all of them "Amazing" facts.
But welcome.
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I think only a handful of those facts could fall under the "amazing" umbrella.
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Thank you for that information, welcome and Paul Kevin this is how you post. Hope you learn from this poster.
Fucking obsessed with Paul Kevin you are, ease up a bit man, give him a fucking brake.
This is verging on bullying and I won't tolerate it any longer.
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Anyone who has boxed Valuev has also fought a bear. The tradition lives!
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Thank you for that information, welcome and Paul Kevin this is how you post. Hope you learn from this poster.
Fucking obsessed with Paul Kevin you are, ease up a bit man, give him a fucking brake.
This is verging on bullying and I won't tolerate it any longer.
So now you are representing Paul Kevin? johnny cochran?
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Thank you for that information, welcome and Paul Kevin this is how you post. Hope you learn from this poster.
Fucking obsessed with Paul Kevin you are, ease up a bit man, give him a fucking brake.
This is verging on bullying and I won't tolerate it any longer.
So now you are representing Paul Kevin? johnny cochran?
Somebody should stick up for Paul Kevin.
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No one shuld stik up Paul Kevin
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Everyone should punch Paul Kevin in the face.
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Everyone should punch Paul Kevin in the face.
I would piss myself if you ever met PK and he kicked the shit out of you! ;D
Why don't we arrange a white collar event, you and him, 3 rounds Queensbury rules?
You do know PK is 6 foot 4" and touted as the next great HW Boxing/MMA Crossover star, don't you? ;D
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If he punches as poor as he posts I have nothing to worry about. :)
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He'll go to punch you, then change his mind.
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you will see changing in my posts onward
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Here's some more:
The famed Georges Carpentier started his career out in the Flyweight division and actually ended up as a Heavyweight though he did start boxing professionally at the tender age of 14!
Evander Holyfield turned down a role in the movie Rocky 5 purely because his character would be knocked out!
Harry Greb versus Mickey Walker fought each other in 1925 and was actually filmed, however the footage has never been found!
Jersey Joe Walcott retired 6 times before wining a world title!
American John Rankin is the tallest ever man to enter a boxing ring at the size of 7 feet 4 inches!
Sam Langford and Harry Wills fought each other 23 times
It took as long as the era of Michael Moorer for a Heavyweight Champion to be a southpaw!
Marciano had the shortest reach for a Heavyweight recorded at only 68 inches
Oscar De La Hoya is missing the middle toe on his left foot.
Rocky Marciano was mistakenly registered as a girl by hospital staff when he was born.
Joe Louis was born with a full set of teeth.
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Holyfield made the right decision about Rocky 5.
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7'4 is insane. Hometown boy too ;D. Trust me there is something in the water. Has to be one of the bigger weight differences at 104 lbs? John Rankin beat his only opponent with Ricardo Lopez sitting on his shoulders!
Somewhere there is an old dusty attic in some run down house with just ONE Greb film reel. We can only hope.
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Liam Neeson was an Irish amateur boxing champion.
Tommy Burns was, apparently, the shortest heavyweight boxing champion ever, at 5’7″
Smokin’ Joe Frazier was legally blind for most of his professional boxing career
Al Capone offered to fix a match in Jack Dempsey’s favour in the Dempsey-Tunney bout in Chicago, Illinois, but Dempsey refused.
Most Bouts: Len Wickwar 466
Most Championship fights: Jack Briton 39
Most Championship rounds: Emille Griffith 339
Longest span between winning titles: George Foreman 21 years, 10 months and 14 days
Biggest weight difference: Bob Fitzsimmons (174) KO2 Ed Dunkhorst (314) = 140lbs
