The Quirky facts thread.

[IronDanHamza]

The longest fight of all time was a draw between Andy Bowen and Jack Burke, 110 rounds, 7 hours, 19 minutes. In New Orleans, April 6th, 1893.

I believe.

[IronDanHamza]

Alexis Arguello
Jack Britton
Pipino Cuevas
Henry Armstrong
Manuel Ortiz
Benny Leonard
Benny Lynch
Joe Brown
Billy Conn
Bernard Hopkins
Pone Kingpetch

HOF'ers that lost their very first pro fight.

*I counted Kingpetch because I avidly believe he should be in the HOF.

[New England]

During public training exhibitions, Jack Johnson wrapped his penis in 'complimentary' gauze.

standard procedure for any self respecting band in the 80's haha





tim bradley ran 24 miles absent mindedly on the day of a weigh in
he stopped when he came to and realized what he was doing.
obviously, he won the fight


carlos monzon cracked a reporter on the mouth and broke his jaw
he was also an honest to goodness chain smoker


erik morales lived above a gym as a youth


george foreman has five sons named george


jack johnson fought two exhibitions at 67 years old.


barney ross became a morphine addict after being wounded in battle

[fitefanSHO]

Dickie Eklund did NOT knock down Sugar Ray Leonard, despite the fact that he and his sycophantic followers have been making this claim for over 30 years now.

[Terry A]

When Joe Louis Koed Tony Galento, a reporter said that "Joe hit Galento so hard they could have counted him out in the air!"

[Terry A]

When Duane Bobick got KOed by Ken Norton in 58 seconds, Curtis Cokes said "Bobick trained for 6 months & didn't even get a chance to use his stool!"

[any craic lad?]

I always enjoy the Chavez Rosario one where Chavez though Rosario was trying toput a hex on him and so wore his trademark red bandana into the ring so as to protect him from the hex

[Terry A]

When Ron Stander was getting ready to step n the ring vs Joe Frazier, a reporter asked her for her thoughts on Stander's chances. She said "It's like putting a Volkswagen in the Indy 500."

Remember when Sonny Liston knocked down Wepner and the ref asked him "How many fingers do I have up?" And Wepner said "How many guesses do I get?"

Jake LaMotta says every Christmas Eve, his dad would go outside & shoot his gun, then come back inside & tell us that Santa Claus just committed suicide.

"So he didn't have to buy us any presents."

[RubenSonny]

standard procedure for any self respecting band in the 80's haha

carlos monzon cracked a reporter on the mouth and broke his jaw
he was also an honest to goodness chain smoker

Nicolino Locches corner would poorly cover him between rounds whilst he was smoking.

[RubenSonny]

alexis arguello
jack britton
pipino cuevas
henry armstrong
manuel ortiz
benny leonard
benny lynch
joe brown
billy conn
bernard hopkins
pone kingpetch

hof'ers that lost their very first pro fight.

*i counted kingpetch because i avidly believe he should be in the hof.

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