The Quirky facts thread.

[BennyST]

jmm............

He slipped my mind.

Ah, well.

Both Rafa Marquez and Juan M. Marquez lost their first pro fights. The two boxing brothers are also married to two sisters....neither of them box though.

[The Surgeon]

Battling Siki used to wander into Parisian bars with his pet leopard on a silver chain. According to Larry Gaines Siki would buy everyone in the bar drinks and when it came to paying the bill he'd ask the bartender: "do you believe in God?" When the bartender replied that he did, Siki said "then believe God will pay the bill" and walked out. He got away with it a few times, until one bartender pulled a shotgun on him and asked the same question. Complete nutter.

GangSta!!!

[The Surgeon]

A Chinese man with a Team Tyson tattoo on his arm bumped into a member of Tyson's circle at a Tyson fight in Vegas and told him when asked about the tattoo that his grandmother had on her deathbed told him to follow Mike wherever

When told Tyson's reply was "What the **** was wrong with his grandmother!?"

[ИATAS]

-(not sure if this one is true) Ever wonder why they call them boxing "rings", even though they are square? In Ancient Rome, boxing rules were introduced and competitors were required to remain within a circular ring drawn on the arena floor. They have been known as "rings" ever since.

-Ali called Leon Spinks Dracula after the first fight. In training camp for the second, Ali brought a Crucifix and said "the man is too ugly to wear my crown. He has no teeth!"


-Pete Rademacher made his pro debut in a title bout

-the last time hopkins fought someone older than him was in 1998 (simon brown) [yeah I had to throw in a hopkins factoid ]

-Light heavyweight great Billy Conn was payed $2.50 for his first pro fight..... his manager took $2.00 of it because "You lost the fight, and besides you got to eat!"

-Speaking of Vampires. Anyone remember Vampire Johnson? He would come out to the ring in a coffin dressed in a complete Vampire outfit, cape and all.

[Kid McCoy]

Boxers who were never stopped in 100 or more fights:

Harry Stone (holds the record for something like 200 fights without a KO or TKO loss)
Panama Al Brown
Joe Lynch
Carlos Monzon
Mike Gibbons
Nel Tarleton
Gorilla Jones
Billy Graham
Kid Gavilan
Duilio Loi
Pete Sanstol
Pancho Villa
Pedro Carrasco

[McGoorty]

That's pretty funny too!

Speaking of Archie, in one of his fights with Yvon Durelle, Moore was knocked down 4 times! When he went back to his corner, his manager Doc Kearns told Archie that his wife was afraid that he was getting killed & that, "to comfort her & to show her he was all right", he should wave at her. Arcie said he would be glad to be didn't know where she was. (She was sitting right behind Archie's corner). Doc told her she was sitting just behind Durelle's corner so hurry up & wave at her before the bell rings for the next round. Archie stood up and "waved at his wife" while looking over at Durelle's corner. Story goes that when Archie stood up and waved at him, Durelle thought Archie was mocking him & it so demoralized Durelle that he ended up losing the fight.

Yeah, I reckon that could be right, but who wouldn't be ??... Durelle had hit him with freakish bombs and when Moore went down he went down hard, but each time Moore got up. Archie Moore was so old, he once fought with Alcibiades during the Pelloponesian War, He was known then as Archimongoosebiades,.......and let me tell you, that was a long time ago. Incidentally it's one of my favourite fights.

[NChristo]

Duran had a pet lion called Walla.
Bump.

[NChristo]

March 27th Wilfredo Gomez and Jeff Chandler defended their titles both by KOs in the 6th round and both exactly 2:28 in.

Eder Jofre is the mayor of Sau Paulo and Alexis Arguello was the mayor of Managua.

Monzon had 60 KO's, none in the first round.

Georges Carpentier scored a KO in every weightclass form Flyweight too Heavyweight.

Only 2 World title bouts were fought in Africa pre Ali - Foreman, Sugar Ramos - Floyd Robinson in Ghana and Dick Tiger - Gene Fullmer in Nigeria