Edited reality in boxing records.

[bradlee180]

I'm not even sure when they started to always announce fighters' records at the beginning of the fight.

Up to the late 1960s, ring announcers would give the fighter's name, his weight, where he's from, and what color trunks, but his record wasn't announced.

Records were being announced in the 1970s during ring introductions, but not all the time at every boxing event.


EDIT:
Records weren't seen as that important, and neither was being undefeated.
As long as a guy fought with Heart and put on a Great entertaining fight, people would pay to watch him again even if he came out on the losing end.
It's why Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta fought 6 times, even though Jake only won 1 of the fights. They put on exciting fights, and the people liked watching them fight each other.
With only 8 weight classes and only 1 Champ per class, and fighters having maybe 10 or 12 fights per year, naturally EVERY top fighter had losses...