Most Heavyweight Title Defenses : Joe Louis, 25, reigned over a decade.
Most Light Heavyweight Title Defenses: Bob Foster 14
Most Middleweight Title Defenses: Carlos Monzon 14, Bernard Hopkins 20. Depends if you count consecutive or not.
Most Welterweight Title Defenses : Henry Armstrong 19, this was in a 2 year period!!!
Most Lightweight TItle Defenses: Roberto Duran 12
Most Featherweight Title Defenses: Eusebio Pedroza
Most Bantamweight Title Defenses: Orlando Canzinales 16

Highest Duck/Slip Percentage Rate for Heavyweight Champions: Joe Frazier (according to Bert Sugar)

Longest Title Reign: Joe Louis 11 years 7 months

Most 1st Round KOs: Young Otto 42

Youngest Known Pro Debut: Baby Arizmendi 10 years old.

Punches Thrown by Muhammad Ali in the 1st Round against Floyd Patterson : 0 punches thrown.

Largest Live Gate : Tony Zale vs Billy Pryor 135,000

Youngest to Ever Win a Title : Wilfred Benitez 17 years old

The Score Cards for the Thrilla in Manilla Going into the 15th: 166- 160 Ali, 166-162 Ali, 167-162 Ali

Fighter to Box the Most Title Fight Rounds : Emile Griffith 339 rounds boxed

Most Wins in Career History : Willie Pep 229 wins

Sonny Liston Received the first Million Dollar Purse ( Tunney got 990,000 and wrote himself a check for the other 10)

Most Defeats in a Career for a Champion: Fritzie Zivic 69 losses

Most Knock Outs in Career History: Archie Moore 145 KO's

Aaron "The Dixie Kid" Brown is the first known fighter to fight with the hands low style (later used by Muhammad Ali).

Archie "The Mongoose" Moore was the first known fighter to perfect the shoulder roll we see Mayweather use.

Most Fights Between 2 Fighters : Same Langford and Harry Wills fought each other 23 times in their career

Floyd Patterson was Knocked Down mosre than any other champion in their career, going down 20 times

Most Welterweight Title Defenses : Henry Armstrong 19, this was in a 2 year period!!!

Youngest Known Pro Debut: Baby Arizmendi 10 years old.


-a couple of stats that fall into the "HOLY SHIT" category

ya I agree and the crazy thing is about Armstrong is that he really went 24-0 in that time period but the belt was on the line 19 times

I could be wrong, but I think Tunney wrote the check to the promoter and asked for the million dollar check in return.

that sounds right flpanther I know it was some weird circumstances

haha pretty amazing that the first million dollar athlete was Tunney