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New Year's trivia: 5 easy(?) questions for the boxing historian.
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Originally posted by GJC View Post1) Willie Pep
2) Fritzie Zivic
3) Can't think beyond Lewis/Bowe!
4) Walcott
5) James Tillis?
1. At 23 years and 9 months when he reached 100, Pep would seem like the logical choice here... but he is, amazingly, beaten by more than 5 years by the man we're looking for! As mentioned earlier, he was a world champ - and of course we have to go pretty far back in time.
2. Zivic of course lost an awful lot of fights - but not that many to world champs. Our man here never got a title shot, and was never even a top contender. But during his career he met 15 men, who - at one time or another - held a world title... and lost to each and every one of them!
3. Ok, this is a difficult one... as this particular olympic fight dates all the way back to 1908 in London.
5. It's not Tillis... but you're right; he's from the same era.
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He never won the world heavyweight crown... but he fought more men who challenged for this title than any other non-champion.
I am not sure what your looking for here. Do you want who fought the most Champions or who fought the most Title challengers.
Bert Cooper fought Foreman, Mercer, Bowe, Holyfield, Moorer, Bryd and Weaver PLUS he fought several more that challenged for the Title.
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