boxing trivia

dougm1970

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dougm1970

did you know, the oldest ages of participants in a professional boxing match ??...

from boxrec via the new york times -

They fought for the farcical "Whiskerweight Championship of America." (Corporal William Jubb was 92 & George Washington Brown was 80.) They boasted "whiskers of the Kentucky colonel type and through the four rounds both vainly tried time and again to reach the button. Round one found octogenarians waving like palm trees in the gentle ocean breeze." Brown floored Jubb's false teeth in the third stanza. By the end of the bout "both aspirants were locked in an embrace on the floor [after falling during a clinch] as 2,000 tourists cheered.... Charles W. Eldridge, the referee, 101 years old, declared the battle a draw." New York Times

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=250894&cat=boxer

dougm1970

former world flyweight champion (as well as other weights) manny pacquaio and former world heavyweight champion rocky maricano....had the same reach - 67 inches.

dougm1970

on his first night as a pro, world heavyweight title challenger george chuvalo defeated four opponents...all by knockout.

dougm1970

this video was the first boxing match filmed....albeit a brief bit of film here...by thomas edison in 1894
this film is the first moment in all sports history recorded...so, the trivia bit.... boxing was the first sport ever filmed !!

dougm1970

did you know that former world heavyweight champion joe louis (who had 25 world title defences!!) earned 4.6 million dollars in his career, but after paying everyone (trainers, managers, gym fees and so on) he only pocketed 800,000 dollars...yet at the end of the 50's when he retired he got a tax bill for 1 million dollars !!

and...in order to get a shot at the world title as a black boxer at the time..joe louis had to sign a contract with then champion jimmy braddock agreeing to give braddock 10% of each and every purse he earned for the next ten years of his career !!

dougm1970

youngest pro boxer was 9 years old.

http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=103423&cat=boxer&pageID=2

dougm1970

jake lamotta (raging bull) lost over 100 stone in weight during his professional career....balooning in weight between bouts.

Big Ears

dougm1970 wrote: »

did you know that former world heavyweight champion joe louis (who had 25 world title defences!!) earned 4.6 million dollars in his career, but after paying everyone (trainers, managers, gym fees and so on) he only pocketed 800,000 dollars...yet at the end of the 50's when he retired he got a tax bill for 1 million dollars !!

and...in order to get a shot at the world title as a black boxer at the time..joe louis had to sign a contract with then champion jimmy braddock agreeing to give braddock 10% of each and every purse he earned for the next ten years of his career !!

Joe Louis also signed with Liverpool FC !, not that it was anything more than a publicity stunt, but it happened.

Also that had nothing to do with Louis being black, and it had everything to do with Braddock's manager being smart and having a serious eye for ability that went beyond any racial prejudice.

dougm1970

ah...big ears...hello again

i'll certainly take your word on what you put.