Will There Ever Be a 100 win Boxer Again?

By Boxing News - 08/21/2023 - Comments

By Ken Hissner: It’s been a while since boxers fought two or three times a year. I doubt we will ever see one with 100 wins again. IBF Light Middleweight champion Luis “Yori Boy” Campas, at age 52 with 108 wins from Navojoa, Sonora, Mexico, might be an exception, still fighting.

I look at my 100-win list and see WBC Lightweight champion from Huelva, Spain, Pedro Carrasco, with 105 wins from 1962 to 1972.

Cuba’s Angel Robinson Garcia, 138 wins of Huelva, Spain from 1955-1978 from 1961 to 1966, a top ten contender.

Cuba’s “Pocket Cassius Clay” Jose Legra, 129 wins from 1960 to 1973 out of Madrid, Spain.

NABF and USBA champion Harold Brazier 105 wins from 1982 to 2004 from South Bend, Indiana.

WBC Lightweight champion Jose “El Zurdo” Luis Ramirez, 102 wins from 1973 to 1990 from Culiacan, Sonora, Mexico.

Four Division world champion Lightweight, Welterweight, Light Middleweight, and Middleweight champion Roberto “Hands of Stone” Duran, 103 wins from 1968 to 2001 from Panama City, Panama.

IBF Inter-Continental Welterweight champion Jeff “Flash” Malcolm, 100 wins from 1971 to 2002 from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
South African Lightweight champion Enoch Nhlapo, 100 wins from 1953 to 1973 from Johannesburg, South Africa.

World Light Heavyweight champion Archie “Old Mongoose” Moore, 186 wins from 1935 to 1963 from San Diego, California.

Oklahoma State champion Buck “Tombstone” Smith, 181 wins from 1987 to 2009 from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Spanish Lightweight champion Fred Galiana, 155 wins from 1950 to 1965 from Mataro, Spain.

Spanish Middleweight champion Luis Folledo had 131 wins from 1958 to 1969 from Madrid, Spain.

Joe Barrett, 114 wins from London, UK, from 1895 to 1922.

Eric Jones, 108 wins from Coalville, UK, from 1928 to 1944.

Super Feather, Lightweight, and Light Welterweight champion Julio “J.C.” Chavez 107 wins from Culiacan, Sonora, Mexico from 1980 to 2005.

Pacific Coast Light Heavyweight champion “Good Time” George Manley, 100, 99, or 94 wins? From Denver, Colorado, and from 1920 to 1935.

Australian Middleweight champion Alan Westbury, 100 wins from Newcastle, Australia from 1935 to 1946.

Babe Herman, 100 wins from New York, New York 1919 to 1932.
Toluco Lopez, 99 wins from Torreon, Mexico from 1953 to 1963.
World Bantamweight champion Manuel Ortiz, 99 wins from El Centro, California, from 1938 to 1955.

EBU Euro champion Aldo Spoldi, 99 wins from Castiglione, Lombardia, Italy, and New York from 1930 to 1945.

Some came close to 100 wins but fell short such as European Flyweight champion Salvatore “Tore” Burruni, with 99 wins from 1957 to 1969 from Alghero, Italy.

George “The Leiperville Shadow” Godfrey with 99 wins from 1919 to 1937 from Leiperville, Pennsylvania.

World Bantamweight champion Pete “Baby Cyclone” Sanstol 99 wins from Moi, Norway, and Brooklyn, New York, from 1926 to 1942.

Ernesto Miranda, 99 wins from San Luis, Argentina, and Badalona, Spain from 1955 to 1976 and fought two draws with Fly and Bantam world champion Eder Jofre.

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