Best & Worst Heavyweight records by their 20th fight

Post some Heavyweight records that are good by their 20th fight. A lot of modern day heavyweights seem to get chit for their records not being strong by their 20th fight. Looking through heavyweight legends in history it's hard to find many with good records by that point in their career. I'll post some later, In work currently.

Comments (10)

Redd_Foxx

The early stages of a person's career can vary wildly. What matters is what happens once they're in the mix. Wasn't it almost 30 fights before Tyson fought anyone with a pulse?

9y ago

joe_strong

all those guys were shot until he fought chisora and was dominated. tried to make a comeback and got ko'd by a wilder opponent lmao. Sure they had seen better days but still nice names on the resume at the time. Duhaupas & Chisora ain't duds. Both are tough SOBs...

9y ago

Sugar_Adam_Ali

Leon spinks

9y ago

daggum

Helenius... Chisora, Peter, Liahkovich & Brewster by 17 fights... By 20 fights you can also add in journeymen Sherman Williams, Sprott, Bidenko & Oloukun... Helenius was on the path to stardom until he hurt himself in the Chisora fight. He is still trying to get back into contention since then... all those guys were shot until he fought chisora and was dominated. tried to make a comeback and got ko'd by a wilder opponent lmao.

9y ago

daggum

Helenius KO'd 3 former champs, best record? Has anyone ever KO'd 3 former champs and not get a title fight? those guys were all completely shot. also there are 4 champs in every division now so its a little different. they are tossing belts around like a hot potato.

9y ago

jiopsi

Helenius KO'd 3 former champs, best record? Has anyone ever KO'd 3 former champs and not get a title fight?

9y ago

soul_survivor

Holyfield in his 7th pro hw fight became undisputed heavyweight champ.

9y ago

joe_strong

9y ago

boliodogs

Things are different today. Boxers used to fight as much as 6 times a year. Today they rarely fight more than twice a year. They get to be contenders with fewer fights. If they waited until they had 40 pro fights on their record they would be old men. Today's boxers also turn pro at an older age. Mexican boxers are the exception to the rule. They start young and fight often like Canelo.

9y ago

Sadiqkingofko

Gerald Washington (Mansour, Chambers, Austin) Ali (Liston, Cooper, Moore, and Doug Jones) Fraizer (Mathis, Chuvalo, and Doug Jones) Lewis (Tyrell Biggs) Tyson (Tills) Fury (Chisora and Johnson) Joshua (Martin and Breazeale) Pulev (Thompson, Ustinov, and Dimitrenko) Povetkin (Chambers, Byrd, and Donald) Parker (Takam) Jennings (Perez and Spilika) James J Jefferies (He was heavyweight champ before 20 fights)

9y ago