Most prolific active boxer of recent times?

[HattonTheHammer]

Modern fighters are much less susceptible to wear tear and permanent damage than their past counterparts.
Past fighters fought TOO regularly and in the interests of safety, no elite fighter should fight more than three times a year.

Agree to a certain extent

But for me a fighter should fight as much as he feels is physically possible for him.

If say Wlad klitchsko fights twice in a year and on both occasions blows his opponents away he is merely wasting his time in the gym when he could be fighting.

When you fight amateur you have to on some occasions fight 3-4 times in a night.

Some boxers out there at the moment could easily manage 5-6 fights a year still but choose not to because they know the real money is there to be earned from fights that need 2-3 months of promoting.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Agree to a certain extent

But for me a fighter should fight as much as he feels is physically possible for him.

If say Wlad klitchsko fights twice in a year and on both occasions blows his opponents away he is merely wasting his time in the gym when he could be fighting.

When you fight amateur you have to on some occasions fight 3-4 times in a night.

Some boxers out there at the moment could easily manage 5-6 fights a year still but choose not to because they know the real money is there to be earned from fights that need 2-3 months of promoting.

A fighter can feel ready to fight every day of the year.
However if he does he simply counteracts his own fitness and preparation, decreases his chance of winning and causes totally treatable injuries to become permanent.
Wear and tear comes as much from training as the fight.

I've fought amateur for the past ten years and boxers are no longer allowed to compete more than once a day because of fatigue and injury.

Even if a boxer did fight four times in one day in the past he wouldn't meet near the demands of a professional boxing contest.

[Mikkel_K]

95 KO losses sounds really, really bad, but it might also be because he knows when to stay down. It could be much worse with guys like Gatti who just keep coming back and gets more and more thrown in his face.

It's the accumulation of punches that do the real damage, and if you go down easily you just might be able to escape that.

Btw I'd say the most prolific active fighters of a certain standard should be either Jorge Castro (130-11-3 = 144) or perhaps Yori Boy Campas (91-12-0 = 103).

[CutMeMick]

I think James Toney is going for bout #81 vs. Rahman...

Castros career started in 87, Toneys career started in 88, Campas in 87 also.