Most padded record in the sport?
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You cannot fight the very best comp more than a few times a year the old timers you mentioned fought a few times a month in some stretches can only do that with cans, at the end of the day a 30 to 60 fight modern record from a top fighter is equal to the 100s fought by those guys, wasnt it Joe Louis who had the bum a mth moniker.A lot of ATG fighters fought through dozens of mismatches as stay-busy fights to earn a check in between big fights. They weren't trying to pad their record so much as earn a paycheck and stay in fighting shape. Robinson, Moore, Pep, while in their prime were fighting a lot of novices and no-hopers in between title fights. Back when there were a lot more live local venues.
I always thought Hopkins did a fair amount of padding while he was chasing Monzon's title defense record at middleweight. Sven Ottke's entire career was padded.Comment
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Haha, look at some of his opponents' names:Pongsaklek Wonjongkam
https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/034051
Now there's other names sprinkled in there but he once had a 4 fight streak with his opponent's combined record was 0-1-0.
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