Six degrees of separation is a theory that everyone in the world is separated by no more than six social connections.
In other words, you know someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone who knows Queen Elizabeth. Or so the concept goes.
We’re borrowing the six degrees concept – well, sort of loosely – to connect fighters from the past to their more contemporary counterparts in our new occasional feature, “Degrees of Separation.”
Example: Let’s connect Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. to Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Super easy; we did it in two steps. Senior fought Grover Wiley, who fought Junior.
In this installment of the Boxing Junkie feature, we connect Hall of Famer “Fighting” Harada, who is generally recognized as the greatest Japanese fighter of all time, to countryman Naoya Inoue, the best from Japan today.
It took us more steps than we would’ve liked, 12, but we got there. Harada last fought 50 years ago.
Check it out:
Fighting Harada fought …
Lionel Rose, who fought …
Rafael Limon, who fought …
Hector Camacho, who fought …
Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …
Manny Pacquiao, who fought …
Adrien Broner, who fought …
Antonio DeMarco, who fought …
Jorge Linares, who fought …
Vassiliy Lomachenko, who fought …
Guillermo Rigondeaux, who fought …
Nonito Donaire, who fought …
Naoya Inoue
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Degrees of separation: Connecting John L. Sullivan to Deontay Wilder