FIGHTLINE
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MARCIANO TKO 8 LOUIS Oct. 26, 1951
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LOUIS KO 3 SHARKEY Aug. 18, 1936
DEMPSEY KO 7 SHARKEY July 21, 1927
ALI TKO 4 MOORE Nov. 15, 1962
HOLMES RTD 10 ALI Oct. 2, 1980
MARCIANO KO 9 MOORE Sept. 21, 1955
HOLMES UD 12 MERCER Feb. 7, 1992
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Fights only last a matter of minutes, but fighters are connected to each other by chains that extend for decades – even centuries – into the past. Their bond is a lineage built face-to-face – a young prospect struggles with the skills of an aging veteran whose nose was once broken by a fighter now enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. In that way, muscle memory carries knowledge and boxers face a piece of everyone their opponent has fought, everyone those people fought, and so on. Sometimes those chains are surprisingly short. For current Ring/WBA/ WBC/WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk, there are just nine opponents between him and the first Ring magazine heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey.
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KLITSCHKO TKO 6 MERCER June 29, 2002
FURY UD 12 KLITSCHKO Nov. 28, 2015
USYK SD 12 FURY May 18, 2024
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