Professional boxers with little or no amatuer experience?

[dan_cov]

Joseph Parker has an interesting partial record.
15-11 and lost every fight in the WSB

Also lost to Erik Pfeiffer who was scheduled to fight Daniel Dubois not too long back

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

Anthony Yarde claims to have only had 12 amateur fights. Is that true? Dave Allen says he only had 10.

[TonyGe]

Hopkins had amature fights. Canelo had 50 or so. Duran had 20 to 30 No one really knows the exact number. These are all guys that I thought had no amateur fights.

[Rockin']

James Toney only had twenty or so amateur fights.

True dat. He had a couple of bouts out of my amateur gym which he left. Then I heard about him doing very well at the PAL National. he might have won it. Then he turned pro.

But he had like 50,000 sparring matches . He said he would spar everyday

As a pro that's true. As an amateur I never saw him work many rounds on the daily as an amateur. He fought alot of rounds in the gym as a pro though, a ton of 'em.......Rockin'

[QueensburyRules]

Sparring is training though. Very different.



Ohhh gotcha. Boxrec amateur info is spotty and incomplete a lot of the times

- -Correction!!!

All AMA records are filled with spotty and incomplete records, even modern.

Same with older pro records. Such is the background of what started in the James Figg era where boxing remained illegal for centuries.

Baseball was never illegal per say, thus more accessible to the people that attracted stat guys and other higher meticulous record keepers.