Your Favorite & (Least) Favorite Boxing Records

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For me it's not so much a record but something that you just don't see nowadays and would never see

Sugar Ray Robinson was 40-0 when fought Jake La Motta. He'd already beaten La Motta even though he was a welterweight and La Motta was a middleweight (The 14 pounds difference didn't matter to him). They fight a second time and La Motta wins 15 round UD war but guess what ? They fight again 21 days later.

And if that doesn't impress you then this is just mind blowing..... Ray Robinson fights a ten rounder in between and then goes on to beat LaMotta again a week later !

After that Sugar Ray Robinson goes undefeated for 80 fights

Then he fights Joey Maxim for the light heavy weight title. When you think that SRR was 159 pounds and Maxim was 170 pounds but he didn't care about giving away 10 pound advantage. In those days you had to weigh in on the morning of the fight. Many people want this brought bk as they say it prevents injuries.

The fight was scheduled for Saturday at Yankee stadium but due to the weather it was called off and reschedule for Monday and they had to weight in again on Monday !

If that was today they'd be 10-15 pounds over weight due modern day fighters bulking up the night before.

SRR lost. His corner pulled him out due to exhaustion even though he was ahead on the cards. Another incredible fact was that bk then fighters didn't drink water between rounds.

Sports science wasn't really a thing bk then and hydration wasn't part of the trainers arsenal. It was so hot and tiring the ref past out in the 10th and a replacement ref comes in.