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Greatest Boxers of all time...
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Julio Cesar Chavez – 107 Wins, 6 Losses
Julio Cesar Chavez was an impressive boxer. He went on a streak of 87 consecutive wins to start his career- a remarkable feat. The record was blemished after a controversial draw with Pernell Whitaker in 1993.
Four months after that draw, the legend from Mexico lost a split decision to Frankie Randall, and it seemed like Chavez was human after all. As you see by the record, he still was a bad man in the ring and became a Hall of Famer in 2011.
Julio Cesar Chavez was an impressive boxer. He went on a streak of 87 consecutive wins to start his career- a remarkable feat. The record was blemished after a controversial draw with Pernell Whitaker in 1993.
Four months after that draw, the legend from Mexico lost a split decision to Frankie Randall, and it seemed like Chavez was human after all. As you see by the record, he still was a bad man in the ring and became a Hall of Famer in 2011.
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Bernard Hopkins – 55 Wins, 8 Losses
Bernard Hopkins didn’t learn to box traditionally. He was taught at Graterford Prison while serving an 18-year sentence. Upon his release in 1988, Hopkins debuted and soon became one of history’s best pound-for-pound boxers.
Hopkins earned the nickname “The Alien” as he used great fundamentals to topple some of the best fighters in the world like Oscar De La Hoya and Winky Wright. Hopkins also had another remarkable accomplishment of defending his middleweight belt for a record 20 consecutive times.
Bernard Hopkins didn’t learn to box traditionally. He was taught at Graterford Prison while serving an 18-year sentence. Upon his release in 1988, Hopkins debuted and soon became one of history’s best pound-for-pound boxers.
Hopkins earned the nickname “The Alien” as he used great fundamentals to topple some of the best fighters in the world like Oscar De La Hoya and Winky Wright. Hopkins also had another remarkable accomplishment of defending his middleweight belt for a record 20 consecutive times.
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Michael Spinks (737.4 points; 31-1-0)
Considered to be one of the best light heavyweights of all time, Michael Spinks (known as “Jinx”) held world championships in both the light heavyweight class (he was the undisputed champ from 1983 to 1985) and the lineal heavyweight class (from 1985 to 1988). The only defeat of Jinx’s professional career came in his final fight, when he was knocked out by Mike Tyson in less than two minutes.
“Ninety-one seconds after it had started, the biggest heavyweight fight of all time was all over,” wrote Bleacher Report.
Spinks was only 31 when he retired, telling reporters at a press conference, “It’s tough. I’ve never retired from anything, other than from selling papers when I was a kid. I guess I’ve come a long way. I’ve accomplished what I wanted to accomplish in boxing. There’s not much more I can do now.”
Considered to be one of the best light heavyweights of all time, Michael Spinks (known as “Jinx”) held world championships in both the light heavyweight class (he was the undisputed champ from 1983 to 1985) and the lineal heavyweight class (from 1985 to 1988). The only defeat of Jinx’s professional career came in his final fight, when he was knocked out by Mike Tyson in less than two minutes.
“Ninety-one seconds after it had started, the biggest heavyweight fight of all time was all over,” wrote Bleacher Report.
Spinks was only 31 when he retired, telling reporters at a press conference, “It’s tough. I’ve never retired from anything, other than from selling papers when I was a kid. I guess I’ve come a long way. I’ve accomplished what I wanted to accomplish in boxing. There’s not much more I can do now.”
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Terence Crawford (740.5 points; 36-0-0)
Terence Crawford held multiple world championships in three weight classes: lightweight, light welterweight and welterweight. In 2017, he became the first male boxer to simultaneously hold all four major world titles in boxing (World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization) since Jermain Taylor in 2005. As of February 2020, Crawford is ranked at the second-best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec and ESPN, and the world’s best active welterweight by BoxRec.
Terence Crawford held multiple world championships in three weight classes: lightweight, light welterweight and welterweight. In 2017, he became the first male boxer to simultaneously hold all four major world titles in boxing (World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization) since Jermain Taylor in 2005. As of February 2020, Crawford is ranked at the second-best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec and ESPN, and the world’s best active welterweight by BoxRec.
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Joey Maxim (751.8 points; 83-29-4)
He was born Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli, but he took the ring name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world’s first self-acting machine gun, due to his ability to throw a high number of left jabs.
Maxim (below, left) became world champion in 1950 after he defeated British boxer Freddie Mills (below, right) in London. Their bout is particularly memorable due to the fact that underdog Maxim knocked Mills out in the 10th round, embedding three of Mills’ teeth in his left glove in the process. It would be Mills’ last fight.
He was born Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli, but he took the ring name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world’s first self-acting machine gun, due to his ability to throw a high number of left jabs.
Maxim (below, left) became world champion in 1950 after he defeated British boxer Freddie Mills (below, right) in London. Their bout is particularly memorable due to the fact that underdog Maxim knocked Mills out in the 10th round, embedding three of Mills’ teeth in his left glove in the process. It would be Mills’ last fight.
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Oscar Valdez 29-0 (23 KO's)
Oscar Valdez crowned himself as a two-weight boxing king with a thunderous, one-punch knockout win over Miguel Berchelt at a behind-closed-doors Top Rank show Saturday in Las Vegas.
Berchelt was unconscious before he hit the canvas and took an uncomfortable amount of time to recover.
He was rushed to hospital, given a CT scan, and cleared to be discharged. Leading boxing executive Lou DiBella said the damage done has the potential to destroy his career.
Berchelt was no pushover in the weekend's super featherweight title fight, as the long-reigning WBC champ was touted as the favorite ahead of the bout.
Valdez dominated the match, scoring three knockdowns that included an ice-cold, buzzer-beating finish in the 10th.
he 30-year-old Mexican fighter controlled the distance, tempo, and the match with his jab - landing 46 of 206 thrown for a 22.3% accuracy rate, according to Compubox data sent to Insider.
In the opening rounds, the power difference began to take hold as Bechelt had already started bleeding.
In the fourth, Valdez's patented left hook - which he had been landing effectively earlier in the match - visibly dazed Berchelt before more punches backed him into the ropes.
As the ropes were deemed to have helped keep Berchelt on his feet, the referee Russell Mora ruled it a knockdown and Valdez was now flying high on the scorecards.
A punching flurry in the ninth added another knockdown to Valdez's ledger and concerns rose that the referee, or Berchelt's corner, should wave the bout off.
The fight continued and Valdez made the decision for them, sending Berchelt face-first to the floor with another left hook.
Watch the finish right here:
Oscar Valdez crowned himself as a two-weight boxing king with a thunderous, one-punch knockout win over Miguel Berchelt at a behind-closed-doors Top Rank show Saturday in Las Vegas.
Berchelt was unconscious before he hit the canvas and took an uncomfortable amount of time to recover.
He was rushed to hospital, given a CT scan, and cleared to be discharged. Leading boxing executive Lou DiBella said the damage done has the potential to destroy his career.
Berchelt was no pushover in the weekend's super featherweight title fight, as the long-reigning WBC champ was touted as the favorite ahead of the bout.
Valdez dominated the match, scoring three knockdowns that included an ice-cold, buzzer-beating finish in the 10th.
he 30-year-old Mexican fighter controlled the distance, tempo, and the match with his jab - landing 46 of 206 thrown for a 22.3% accuracy rate, according to Compubox data sent to Insider.
In the opening rounds, the power difference began to take hold as Bechelt had already started bleeding.
In the fourth, Valdez's patented left hook - which he had been landing effectively earlier in the match - visibly dazed Berchelt before more punches backed him into the ropes.
As the ropes were deemed to have helped keep Berchelt on his feet, the referee Russell Mora ruled it a knockdown and Valdez was now flying high on the scorecards.
A punching flurry in the ninth added another knockdown to Valdez's ledger and concerns rose that the referee, or Berchelt's corner, should wave the bout off.
The fight continued and Valdez made the decision for them, sending Berchelt face-first to the floor with another left hook.
Watch the finish right here:
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Max Schmeling (762.4 points; 56-10-4)
German boxer Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. To date, he remains the only boxer to win the title on a foul.
After Schmeling’s death in 2005, at the age of 99, The Guardian wrote that he would “primarily be remembered as the boxer who lost the most politically charged sporting bout in history.” It’s a reference to his one-round defeat as a so-called member of Hitler’s “master race” by the American Joe Louis, aka the “Brown Bomber,” at New York’s Yankee Stadium in June 1938 (the photo below shows them weighing in). Two years earlier, in 1936, Schmeling had knocked Louis out in the twelfth round of a non-title fight.
Despite being lauded by Nazis, Schmeling didn’t support Hitler. At one point, he sheltered two Jewish boys in his Berlin apartment during Kristalnacht, the brutal Nazi attack on Germany’s Jews.
German boxer Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. To date, he remains the only boxer to win the title on a foul.
After Schmeling’s death in 2005, at the age of 99, The Guardian wrote that he would “primarily be remembered as the boxer who lost the most politically charged sporting bout in history.” It’s a reference to his one-round defeat as a so-called member of Hitler’s “master race” by the American Joe Louis, aka the “Brown Bomber,” at New York’s Yankee Stadium in June 1938 (the photo below shows them weighing in). Two years earlier, in 1936, Schmeling had knocked Louis out in the twelfth round of a non-title fight.
Despite being lauded by Nazis, Schmeling didn’t support Hitler. At one point, he sheltered two Jewish boys in his Berlin apartment during Kristalnacht, the brutal Nazi attack on Germany’s Jews.
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Nicolino Locche (777.6 points; 117-4-14)
Argentinian Nicolino Locche is often hailed as one of the finest defensive boxers of all time. One of the standout moments of his career was winning the world junior welterweight title in Tokyo in December 1968, defeating the reigning champ, Paul Fujii of Hawaii, in a technical knock-out. When Locche was asked by a reporter how he felt after the fight, he lit a cigarette and replied: “What fight?”
A lifelong heavy smoker, Locche suffered from ill health, undergoing a triple heart bypass in 1994. In 2005, he died of heart failure.
Argentinian Nicolino Locche is often hailed as one of the finest defensive boxers of all time. One of the standout moments of his career was winning the world junior welterweight title in Tokyo in December 1968, defeating the reigning champ, Paul Fujii of Hawaii, in a technical knock-out. When Locche was asked by a reporter how he felt after the fight, he lit a cigarette and replied: “What fight?”
A lifelong heavy smoker, Locche suffered from ill health, undergoing a triple heart bypass in 1994. In 2005, he died of heart failure.
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Emile Griffith (786.1 points; 85-24-2)
Hailing from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Emile Alphonse Griffith (below, right) was a world champion in the welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight classes. His 1962 title match with Benny Paret (below, left) was one of his best-known bouts, for various reasons. At the pre-match weig- in, Paret taunted Griffith (who was openly bisexual) by touching his buttocks and making a homophobic remark. It didn’t work: Griffith won the bout by knockout and Paret never recovered consciousness, dying in the hospital 10 days later.
Griffith died in 2013 after spending two years in an extended care facility in New York.
Hailing from the U.S. Virgin Islands, Emile Alphonse Griffith (below, right) was a world champion in the welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight classes. His 1962 title match with Benny Paret (below, left) was one of his best-known bouts, for various reasons. At the pre-match weig- in, Paret taunted Griffith (who was openly bisexual) by touching his buttocks and making a homophobic remark. It didn’t work: Griffith won the bout by knockout and Paret never recovered consciousness, dying in the hospital 10 days later.
Griffith died in 2013 after spending two years in an extended care facility in New York.