New Year's trivia: 5 easy(?) questions for the boxing historian.

[Bundana]

"He never won the world heavyweight crown... but he fought more men who challenged for this title than any other non-champion."

Well, hhascup... by this i mean fighters who challenged, successfully or unsuccessfully, for the heavyweight crown. So we're counting both champs, and challengers who didn't win the title.

Good job with the first two questions - you got both Ted Kid Lewis and Angel Robinson Garcia right!

But as I mentioned earlier, we have to go back to 1908 to find the answer to question 3... so it's not Louis Salica.

[Bundana]

I think number 5 is jerry quarry.

Jerry quarry is right up there... but it's not him.

[GJC]

Jerry quarry is right up there... but it's not him.

Jesse Ferguson?

[Rocker]

3. Matt Wells

[Bundana]

Jesse Ferguson?

You are very close... Ferguson is actually runner-up in this category!

[Bundana]

3. Matt Wells

Exactly! He outpointed future champ Valdemar Holberg in the 1908 Olympics.

[hhascup]

5. Joe Bugner

[Bundana]

5. Joe Bugner

Yes my man, you are right - again!

This means, that we now have all the answers we were looking for.

Thanks to all who played along. Many good suggestions - even those that weren't spot on. Hope you had some fun.

[hhascup]

Yes my man, you are right - again!

This means, that we now have all the answers we were looking for.

Thanks to all who played along. Many good suggestions - even those that weren't spot on. Hope you had some fun.

No thank you!

I should have gotten the Olympic question too but I tried to answer it without doing any research and that is what I get. PLUS, I have done a lot of research on the Olympic Games on all sports in the past, for the local papers around New Jersey and New York.

I got into it too late to get the one on Walcott. We put up a monument of him in Camden New Jersey a few years ago and I was the guest speaker.

http://www.trufanboxing.com/origin11.jpg

That's me in the middle, along with Pierre Benoist and Pete Nozza.

Thanks again, Henry Hascup

[Bundana]

No thank you!

I should have gotten the Olympic question too but I tried to answer it without doing any research and that is what I get. PLUS, I have done a lot of research on the Olympic Games on all sports in the past, for the local papers around New Jersey and New York.

I got into it too late to get the one on Walcott. We put up a monument of him in Camden New Jersey a few years ago and I was the guest speaker.

http://www.trufanboxing.com/origin11.jpg

That's me in the middle, along with Pierre Benoist and Pete Nozza.

Thanks again, Henry Hascup

Yes, I can understand, that the Walcott question would have been a piece of cake - if you had seen it in time! Nice to "meet" a true boxing fan.

All the best, Bundana.