Strange facts you probably don't know...

dan_cov

Give us some strange/interesting boxing facts that we probably don't know...

I'll start off...

David Tua's birth-name is; Mafaufau Tavita Lio Mafaufau Sanerivi Talimatasi.

Sam Langford and Harry Wills fought each other 18 times (documented) but is said to be 23 times.

brickcityboxing

Tim tebow and manny pacquiao were born in the same hospital in Manila.

edgarg

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Originally Posted by dan_cov

Give us some strange/interesting boxing facts that we probably don't know...

I'll start off...

David Tua's birth-name is; Mafaufau Tavita Lio Mafaufau Sanerivi Talimatasi.

Sam Langford and Harry Wills fought each other 18 times (documented) but is said to be 23 times.

I'll just give you one lead, which will contain dozens of unknown facts. Look up the life of Young Stribling, probably the most popular boxer in American history. I read about him when I was very young. He was the perfect citizen and everything a fighter should be.

Well...I'll mention a few more. Ted "Kid" Lewis fought professionally at high level all the way from Flyweight to Heavyweight. He fought Jack Britton for the welterweight title 20 times, even though He lived in England and Britton was American. In his mid 70's he jumped on and KO'd a purse snatcher (maybe a mugger).

-Huey-

Jinkee wants to name their next kid Juan Manuel.

MANIAC310

everyone that knows even a little bit about boxing knows about Langford and Wills. Wills and Jack Dempsey never happening etc

they're both overrated and romanticized by old wannabe historians

Exocet

Despite both representing Ukraine, Wlad was born in Kazakhstan and Vitali in Kyrgyzstan.

MANIAC310

Panama Al Brown & Emilie Griffith were homosexuals

BIg Smoke

Marvin Hagler had his first kid (I suppose it was with Bertha?) at 16.

toshmurph

Matthew Macklin although being born in England considers himself Irish, in fact when he was a teenager he would come back to Ireland every summer for holidays and to play the Irish sport Hurling, he was so good at it that he played County level for Tipperary, his mother and fathers home county.

(Anybody unfamiliar with hurling should youtube it, phenomenally physical game!)

MVOLT

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