Most Knockouts by Letter of the Alphabet

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Most Knockouts by Letter of the Alphabet – BoxRec
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A - Henry Armstrong 101
B - Billy Bird 124
C - Jorge Fernando Castro 90
D - Roberto Duran 70
E - Gustav Eder 59
F - Tiger Jack Fox 94
G - Fred Galiana 90
H - Tsuneo Horiguchi 88
I - Billy Irwin 30
J - Joe Jeannette 68
K - Alabama Kid 108
L - Sam Langford 127
M - Archie Moore 131
N - Andy Newton 77
O - George Odwell 110
P - Jesus Pimentel 69 - Willie Pep 65
Q - Dolph Quijano 43 - Manuel Quintero 42
R - Sugar Ray Robinson 108
S - Young Stribling 128
T - Duke Trammel 86
U - Cardenio Ulloa Barria 48 - Jose Manuel Urtain 42
V - Martin Vargas 63
W - Jimmy Wilde 99
X - Alfredo Xeque 14
Y - Tito Yanni 33
Z - Fritzie Zivic 82

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As you'd expect; quite a lot of ATG's in there..

Out of interest, how long did it take you to make that list?

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As you'd expect; quite a lot of ATG's in there..

Out of interest, how long did it take you to make that list?

Not as long as you would think. Most of them are on the old-time list (50 or more KO's), so they were easy. The others took a little time BUT not that long, maybe an hour or so.

[StarshipTrooper]

Most Knockouts by Letter of the Alphabet – BoxRec
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A - Henry Armstrong 101
B - Billy Bird 124
C - Jorge Fernando Castro 90
D - Roberto Duran 70
E - Gustav Eder 59
F - Tiger Jack Fox 94
G - Fred Galiana 90
H - Tsuneo Horiguchi 88
I - Billy Irwin 30
J - Joe Jeannette 68
K - Alabama Kid 108
L - Sam Langford 127
M - Archie Moore 131
N - Andy Newton 77
O - George Odwell 110
P - Jesus Pimentel 69 - Willie Pep 65
Q - Dolph Quijano 43 - Manuel Quintero 42
R - Sugar Ray Robinson 108
S - Young Stribling 128
T - Duke Trammel 86
U - Cardenio Ulloa Barria 48 - Jose Manuel Urtain 42
V - Martin Vargas 63
W - Jimmy Wilde 99
X - Alfredo Xeque 14
Y - Tito Yanni 33
Z - Fritzie Zivic 82

Billy Bird! Didn't he set a record for most fights?

Poet

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Billy Bird! Didn't he set a record for most fights?

Poet

Here's what I have:

Abe the Newsboy - Over a 1,000? BoxRec has only 12 bouts
Len Wickwar 465 1928-1947
Wildcat Monte 365 1923-1937 BoxRec has 344 bouts
Reggie Strickland 363 1987-2005
Jack Britton 350 1905-1930
Johnny Dundee 341 1910-1932
Billy Bird 329 1920-1950
Sam Langford 322 unconfirmed 1902-1926 BoxRec has 314
Tiger Jack Fox 321 1928-1950 BoxRec has 189
K.O. Morgan 320 1928-1944 BoxRec has 96
George Marsden 317 1927-1946
Harry Greb 302 1913-1926 BoxRec has 299
Ted (Kid) Lewis 300 1909-1929
Peter Buckley 300 1989-2006
Maxie Rosenbloom 299 1923-1939 BoxRec has 298
Harold Ratchford 292 1919-1939 BoxRec has 30
Young Stribling 290 1921-1933
Battling Levinsky 289 1910-1930
Kid Beebe 280 1900-1915 BoxRec has 150
Arnold (Kid) Sheppard 283 1923-1939
Eddie Anderson 275 1920-1936 BoxRec has 262
Young Erne 271 1900-1917
Baby Stribling 265 1923-1938 BoxRec has 98
Young Farrell 262 1917-1928
Memphis Pal Moore 256 1913-1930
Freddie Miller 252 1927-1940
Jack Dillon 252 1908-1923
Harry Stone 250 1923-1939 BoxRec has 212
Dave Shade 250 1918-1935
Frankie Mason 250 1907-1925
Joe Glick 247 1921-1934
Benny Bass 244 1919-1940 BoxRec has 242
Willie Pep 242 1940-1966 BoxRec has 241
Jackie Clark 239 1911-1926
Fritzie Zivic 233 1931-1949 BoxRec has 232
George Rose 234 1926-37
Benny Valger 230 1916-1932 BoxRec has 207
Buck Smith 226 1987-2006
Johnny King 225 1926-47
Jack Casey 224 1926-1942
Albert (Chalky) Wright 222 1928-1948
Andrés Selpa 220 1951-1968
Archie Moore 220 1936-1963
Tod Morgan 220 1920-1942
Harry Corbett 219 1921-1936 BoxRec has 69
Benny Leonard 218 1911-1932
Leo Houck 212 1902-1926
Kid Azteca 211 1932-1961
Kid Williams 209 1910-1929
Len “Tiger” Smith 207 1927-1940
Walter Mohr 206 1912-1922 BoxRec has 112
Sugar Ray Robinson 202 1940-1965 BoxRec has 200
Simmie Black 202 1971-1996
Chuck Wiggins 200 (?) 1914-1932* BoxRec has 187

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Abe the Newsboy - Over a 1,000? BoxRec has only 12 bouts

Bloody Hell;
must have looked like he'd been set alight and put out with a cricket bat!

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Abe the Newsboy - Over a 1,000? BoxRec has only 12 bouts

Bloody Hell;
must have looked like he'd been set alight and put out with a cricket bat!

His real name was Abe Hollandersky.

I have an autographed book called "The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy with U.S. Navy."

They claim that he had between 1,039 to 1,043 bouts. They also list nearly 500 of them.

The Ring Record Book listed Abe Hollandersky Number One for boxers with the most fights from the 1940s to the 1970s. (Many of his purported 1,000-plus victories were exhibitions fought on U.S. Navy ships. He also reputedly had hundreds of wrestling matches.)

Author of the autobiography (first self-published in 1930) entitled THE LIFE STORY OF ABE THE NEWSBOY (with the U.S. Navy) "HERO OF A THOUSAND FIGHTS." At page 384, he claimed to have fought more than 1,100 bouts. He said his last professional fight occurred 1927 in Honolulu, before Gov. Farrington, which he won.

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QUOTE:hhascup; Abe the Newsboy - Over a 1,000? BoxRec has only 12 bouts

You may have seen this before, but here's a great write-up about him

FIGHTER-WRITER ABE THE NEWSBOY BEAT A BEAR BUT LOST TO A KANGAROO
Harold Rosenthal
December 11, 1978
Every stand-up TV comedian has used the obit gag, the one where you don't get out of bed until you're sure your name isn't on the newspaper obituary page. With each passing year, I find myself researching that page for a fellow named Abraham Hollandersky. I may have missed Abe, because if he's still alive he'd be pushing the century mark.

It all started with a throw-away line in Nat Fleischer's bible of fistiana, The Ring Boxing Encyclopedia. Fleischer had a section reserved for pugilistic oddities that included facts like the greatest weight difference in a world championship fight—Primo Camera (270) vs. Tommy Loughran (184). Among other gems was an item about Abe the Newsboy. It read:

"Abraham Hollandersky, known as Abe the Newsboy, a world traveler, engaged in 1,309 contests in every part of the globe, and also in 387 wrestling matches between the years 1905 and 1918. Upon retirement, he wrote a book, The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy. Most of his bouts were aboard naval vessels."

At the time I first read The Ring entry, Casey Stengel and the Yankees were driving for an unprecedented fifth straight World Series crown and Charley Dressen was rewriting the rules on grammar in Brooklyn ("The Giants is dead"), but I put those sagas aside to chase Abe the Newsboy, or his ghost. The first thing to do, I decided, was to get a copy of The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy. I turned my request over to an organization called the Seven Bookhunters, "specialists in uncovering hard-to-find items." They eventually found the book: price $6.

The Life Story of Abe the Newsboy had been published by the Abe the Newsboy Publishing Co. My copy carried the imprint NINTH EDITION. Emblazoned in gold on the blue cover was:

Hero of a Thousand Fights
With the U.S. Navy
GOD BLESS AMERICA

The volume consisted of 472 pages of highly individualized prose, some pictures and reproductions of letters, mostly from admirals commending Abe's marvelous cooperation with the Navy. Abe also included an incomplete roster of his bouts, similar to the listings used for the world champs in The Ring Boxing Encyclopedia.

In the preface to the record section, which Abe also wrote, he listed himself as the heavyweight champion of Panama and South America, with a home address: New London, Conn.; born: 1888. The preface further advised:

"Abe the Newsboy is Fistiana's most unique son. During his picturesque career, begun in 1905 and yet unfinished, which is really a collection of records, he has had 387 wrestling matches and has fought 1,309 bouts under every flag of the world. Abe won the world's welterweight wrestling title in 1907, after 4 hours and 18 minutes, and at one time in Panama wrestled for 5 hours and 22 minutes. He fought five champions, among them Jack Ortega, who weighed 220 pounds and from whom he won the heavyweight title of Panama and South America in the 19th round of a scheduled 45-round bout. Today, Abe offers his service gratis to any boxing show held for charity. Below is a list of his opponents that Abe could recall."

The list discloses an interesting sidelight to Abe's amazing career. He picked on no aging opponents. Everyone who entered the ring with him was in the flush of youth. To wit, some samples of those he defeated in 1915: Young Dillon, Young Sam Langford, Young Kid Thomas, Young Gunboat Smith, Young Sailor, Young Gans, Young Gallagher, Young Jones, Young Martin, Young Ketchell, Young Larry, Young Mullin, Young Statton, Young Lolly, Young Ketchell (again), Young Fitzsimmons, Young Murray and Young Chester.

The following year Abe knocked off another aspiring crop. He beat Young Peck, Young Fitjimits (which could have been a sinus-impeded version of Young Fitzsimmons), Young McCoy, Young Manfact, Young McDonald, Young Conway, Young Johnson, Young Conner, Young White and Young O'Brien.

Abe absorbed plenty of punches in his world travels, including solid blows from a kangaroo in Australia, who scored a technical K.O. when he sent Abe sailing from the ring with a well-placed flail of his tail. The Newsboy won at least one contest from an animal, a decision over a muzzled bear in a wrestling match at a flea circus in New York City. This time Abe's opponent wound up outside the ring, a fact that cost Abe money.

The bear made two attempts to scrunch Abe's head into his thorax, irritating him to the point where he lashed out with a stout right to the bear's snout. The bear staggered and eventually floundered out of the ring, where it fell on a $150 bass viol and kicked a few holes in a piano. The bear's owner called a halt to the hostilities to prevent further damage to his valuable animal as well as to the surrounding instruments.

When Abe went to collect his purse, the irate promoter spoke of a couple of hundred dollars worth of damages. Abe finally settled for a dollar a minute, which turned out to be $1 because that was the length of time the bear was in the ring.

A friend of many admirals, Abe had a free ride wherever the U.S. fleet went in those peaceful days and, according to his autobiography, he had standing invitations from several Presidents to drop in at the White House. Andrew Carnegie once slipped him a $5 gold piece for a newspaper he delivered to the billionaire's yacht. Abe repaid this kindness by including Carnegie's picture in his book. When he needed money to underwrite Life Story (the Abe the Newsboy Publishing Co. opened and closed with one volume), the men of the fleet chipped in and presented Abe with a roll large enough to assure him of a friendly reception at printing plants.

Abe also did a stint in the movies, capitalizing on his craggy features for tough-guy bits. The biggest crisis of his film career came when he was cast as a cab driver; he was behind the wheel before the director discovered Abe didn't know how to drive.

Abe got to know the Hollywood and Los Angeles cultural crowd of the '20s and '30s on a semi-social basis, and Damon Runyon, a journalistic and movie-writing titan of the time, was a pal. Abe got Runyon into his book, too, in a somewhat wonderful tribute. He wrote:

"Mr. Runyon has helped me so many times I can't find words to express my feelings of gratitude to him. He is as good a fellow as he is a writer."

Unlike Runyon, Abe Hollandersky wasn't much of a writer, though he did seem to be quite a fellow.

The comment on Young Fitjimits was hillarious..

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I have that book and the one I have is the Deluxe Third edition. It contains 467 pages, including over 230 illustrations and he autographed the copy I have.

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Here's what I have:

Abe the Newsboy - Over a 1,000? BoxRec has only 12 bouts
Len Wickwar 465 1928-1947
Wildcat Monte 365 1923-1937 BoxRec has 344 bouts
Reggie Strickland 363 1987-2005
Jack Britton 350 1905-1930
Johnny Dundee 341 1910-1932
Billy Bird 329 1920-1950
Sam Langford 322 unconfirmed 1902-1926 BoxRec has 314
Tiger Jack Fox 321 1928-1950 BoxRec has 189
K.O. Morgan 320 1928-1944 BoxRec has 96
George Marsden 317 1927-1946
Harry Greb 302 1913-1926 BoxRec has 299
Ted (Kid) Lewis 300 1909-1929
Peter Buckley 300 1989-2006
Maxie Rosenbloom 299 1923-1939 BoxRec has 298
Harold Ratchford 292 1919-1939 BoxRec has 30
Young Stribling 290 1921-1933
Battling Levinsky 289 1910-1930
Kid Beebe 280 1900-1915 BoxRec has 150
Arnold (Kid) Sheppard 283 1923-1939
Eddie Anderson 275 1920-1936 BoxRec has 262
Young Erne 271 1900-1917
Baby Stribling 265 1923-1938 BoxRec has 98
Young Farrell 262 1917-1928
Memphis Pal Moore 256 1913-1930
Freddie Miller 252 1927-1940
Jack Dillon 252 1908-1923
Harry Stone 250 1923-1939 BoxRec has 212
Dave Shade 250 1918-1935
Frankie Mason 250 1907-1925
Joe Glick 247 1921-1934
Benny Bass 244 1919-1940 BoxRec has 242
Willie Pep 242 1940-1966 BoxRec has 241
Jackie Clark 239 1911-1926
Fritzie Zivic 233 1931-1949 BoxRec has 232
George Rose 234 1926-37
Benny Valger 230 1916-1932 BoxRec has 207
Buck Smith 226 1987-2006
Johnny King 225 1926-47
Jack Casey 224 1926-1942
Albert (Chalky) Wright 222 1928-1948
Andrés Selpa 220 1951-1968
Archie Moore 220 1936-1963
Tod Morgan 220 1920-1942
Harry Corbett 219 1921-1936 BoxRec has 69
Benny Leonard 218 1911-1932
Leo Houck 212 1902-1926
Kid Azteca 211 1932-1961
Kid Williams 209 1910-1929
Len “Tiger” Smith 207 1927-1940
Walter Mohr 206 1912-1922 BoxRec has 112
Sugar Ray Robinson 202 1940-1965 BoxRec has 200
Simmie Black 202 1971-1996
Chuck Wiggins 200 (?) 1914-1932* BoxRec has 187

Wow! Great stuff Henry

Poet