How many HW title-holders can you name?
by Chaos100 on Jan 20, 2011 9:12 PM EST
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I saw this ages ago, and I just remembered it. It may even be that I remember it having seen it on this very site, but I thought it would be worth the risk and put it on here for your collective pleasure and stuff. It definitely was on another site too, since I remember one reply in particular from a friend of mine who is not a member of this site, despite my prolonged efforts in that regard.... Anyway, apologies again if I'm replicating a previous post.
Contained at the link below is a quiz in which you have 10 minutes to name as many Heavyweight World Champions (which becomes 'HW World title-holders' pretty quickly) as you can. Post your scores in the comments, and we'll see how we get on!
Name as many heavyweight champions as you can.... starting..... when you click this link. :)
(Very very small spoiler.... the first time I did this I had a massive mental block and forgot Holyfield....)
Quick tip: you don't have to use first names, or anything fancy, you don't even have to press 'Enter'. Just type away, using surnames, and it automatically matches them as you go.
Enjoy!!
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Yeah I linked it before. It’s fun and worth linking again.
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Did you have another go?
I got 86 when I had a go last night, and still missed some really obvious ones. I remembered a few I’d missed the first time (or should I say because I remembered missing them the first time), so that helped.
In 2008 Lewis commented on a possible match up with Riddick Bowe. "He waits until I am in retirement to call out my name," said Lewis. "I will come out of retirement to beat up that guy. I'll beat him up for free."
ah, I've got no chance...
Looking at it initially was a bit like opening the start of a Pure Maths exam in college, and knowing that you are in an awful lot of trouble…lol
Actually, it wasn’t so bad. I got 51, and given that I thought that you had to put the names in the right dates (and therefore figured I might Just about scrape into double figures) I’m happy with that. Reading A.F’s piece earlier helped me with a few, too :)
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
I found the ones from before Ali difficult....
From Ali onwards (and the guy he won it from, obv) it became easier….
I entered the first one, but against my better judgement: I thought he was the bareknuckle boxing champion but had never won it with gloves on? I’m in a rush now so not gonna check, but I was surprised when his name came up….
In 2008 Lewis commented on a possible match up with Riddick Bowe. "He waits until I am in retirement to call out my name," said Lewis. "I will come out of retirement to beat up that guy. I'll beat him up for free."
I just did check, after all, curiosity got the better of me.
Well, it seems he was gloved champion after all, and I have no idea where I read that he had failed to win the title with gloves on. :/
In 2008 Lewis commented on a possible match up with Riddick Bowe. "He waits until I am in retirement to call out my name," said Lewis. "I will come out of retirement to beat up that guy. I'll beat him up for free."
Damn it, I wasted a LOT of time on mispellings. I must’ve blew a whole five minutes trying to spell Schmeling, Coetzee, Johannson, Akinwande, Liakovich and Igbragimov alone. Iggy was probably the worst… I must’ve spelt half of the Russian dictionary trying to spell that fucking asshole’s name.
Anyway, I managed to get 102. Some of the ones that got me were not surprising (Daimiani, Nicholson, Hart being guys I probably wouldn’t have remembered if you gave me a day). Unbelievably, I blanked on Frank Bruno’s name, even though I could picture the sunuvabitch in my head!!! Who are you, British guy!!! I also blanked on Hide getting the WBO title, Seldon getting the WBA and Jimmy Thunder being alive at all. I also missed John Tate, who’ve I’ve even used as an example in the past of how bad the 80’s heavyweight scene sucked. Just wouldn’t click for some reason.
If my brain was functioning today, I think I could’ve gotten damn near all of these. It’s funny, because going into it, I wouldn’t have thought I’d get this many. A lot of Tom, Dick and Harry’s have owned a title over the years.
"My God, kids today think that the laces are for tying up the gloves."
-- Fritzie Zivic
Well, you've just made sure that whoever goes now won't miss those guys.... ;)
102 is immense.
I got Hide, and all the weird Eastern European ones from recent days, but I also missed all the guys you missed bar Bruno. Never even heard of some of them (never heard of Jimmy Thunder, or some of the guys that won it early….) I got the very first 2, and then blanked up to Rocky, I think. But not getting “BF” is pure stupidity on my part, since I was reading about him just the other day.
Also missed 2, 3, and 4 from your second sentence. I wouldn’t have got Akinwande if you’d given me a week, simply because when I saw his name there I assumed it must have been a mistake. I can’t believe that guy ever won a world title.
In 2008 Lewis commented on a possible match up with Riddick Bowe. "He waits until I am in retirement to call out my name," said Lewis. "I will come out of retirement to beat up that guy. I'll beat him up for free."
I scored a 77
Proud to say I got every lineal champ from John L. to Wlad (not counting Johansson, whose name I couldn’t spell right). Obviously I missed out of quite a few of the “titlists.”
"We've come a long way, and I'm not talking about Virginia Slims, either." - Art Howe
I completely forgot Johanneson.
Which is funny, cos I got Patterson, and I usually put the two together in my mind in a word association sense.
In 2008 Lewis commented on a possible match up with Riddick Bowe. "He waits until I am in retirement to call out my name," said Lewis. "I will come out of retirement to beat up that guy. I'll beat him up for free."
81
Not sure if that’s better or worse than I did previously. Quite a few brain farts though.
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78
For some reason it would not accept Joe Louis nor Bob Fitzimmons, couldn’t get them to register (must have typos I was blind to). But I’m actually better at the early ones, like Jess Willard et al., even tho’ I’m not that old
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94
Forgot about Roy…and the Danish geezer!!
Hall of Shame here I come.
"Anytime you go thirty rounds with a guy, try to kill each other, and have the utmost respect for each other, no one understands that, but guys who have been to war understand it." - Micky Ward on Arturo Gatti.
I think anything over 75 is really decent.
jrok getting over 100 is fucking ludicrous, to be honest. And 94 is brilliant.
To put it another way, if I cheated and just counted all the names I’ve ever heard of, rather than all the ones I could remember in 10 minutes, I would still only get about 97/113…. to remember 90+ in ten minutes… damn.
Areglado said he spent the last two minutes trying to spell ‘the Danish geezer’s name…. lol
In 2008 Lewis commented on a possible match up with Riddick Bowe. "He waits until I am in retirement to call out my name," said Lewis. "I will come out of retirement to beat up that guy. I'll beat him up for free."
Cheers
I brushed past the forgettable Valuev, and lost precious time on Haye; who was coldly rejected. It’s either an older list , or one that recognises Jimmy Thunder , Francisco Damiani and Doc Nicholson, as more legit champs…
And yeah jrok’s a freak of nature
"Anytime you go thirty rounds with a guy, try to kill each other, and have the utmost respect for each other, no one understands that, but guys who have been to war understand it." - Micky Ward on Arturo Gatti.
I never want to see the name Sergei Liakhovic ever again!
I spent the latter half of the ten minutes trying to spell the bastard’s name! I got 88, which I’m pleased with. Tommy Morrison was one of the most obvious ones that evaded me. The spelling can be a bitch.
Still searching for an alive Dan Tucker.
Haha!!
This reminds me of jrok’spost above:
I must’ve spelt half of the Russian dictionary trying to spell that fucking asshole’s name.
Funny how the anger gets directed at the guy… It makes for some fun reading. :)
In 2008 Lewis commented on a possible match up with Riddick Bowe. "He waits until I am in retirement to call out my name," said Lewis. "I will come out of retirement to beat up that guy. I'll beat him up for free."
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