Category: Degrees of Separation

Degrees of Separation: Linking Scots Josh Taylor and Jimmy Wilde

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. …

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 wanted to link Scottish 140-pound titleholder Josh Taylor with arguably the greatest fighter Scotland has ever produced, Jimmy Wilde.

Taylor, 29, is still active. Wilde last fought in 1923. Yes, our work was cut out for us … but we did it.

Check it out:

Jimmy Wilde fought …

Pancho Villa, who fought …

Jimmy McLarnin, who fought …

Barney Ross, who fought …

Henry Armstrong, who fought …

Ray Robinson, who fought …

Denny Moyer, who fought …

Vito Antuofermo, who fought …

Marvin Hagler who fought …

Ray Leonard, who fought …

Hector Camacho, who fought …

Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …

Manny Pacquiao, who fought …

Lucas Matthysse, who fought …

Viktor Postol, who fought …

Josh Taylor

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Degrees of separation: Connecting John L. Sullivan to Deontay Wilder

Degrees of Separation: Linking Filipino greats Flash Elorde, Manny Pacquiao

Degrees of Separation: Linking Japanese greats Fighting Harada and Naoya Inoue

Degrees of Separation: Linking Tyson Fury to first U.K.-born heavyweight champ

Degrees of Separation: Connecting Canelo Alvarez with Mexican legends

Degrees of Separation: Linking the Mayweathers

Degrees of Separation: Linking Manny Pacquiao to Pancho Villa

Degrees of Separation: Linking Terence Crawford to Ace Hudkins

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. …

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 decided to focus on welterweight titleholder and pound-for-pounder Terence Crawford.

Crawford is without question the greatest fighter to ever come out of Nebraska, which isn’t saying much. The state isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of boxing.

That said, some good fighters have come from Nebraska. The best before Crawford might’ve been Ace Hudkins, a product of Lincoln who fought successfully from lightweight to light heavyweight from the early 1920s to early 1930s and ended up based in Los Angeles.

“The Nebraska Wildcat” twice fought the great Mickey Walker for the world middleweight title but came up short on the cards both times.

Could we link Hudkins to Crawford? We gave it a try. And we were successful even though Hudkins last fought in 1932, 88 years ago.

Check it out:

Ace Hudkins fought …

Mickey Walker, who fought …

Lou Brouillard, who fought …

Georgie Abrams, who fought …

Ray Robinson, who fought …

Joey Archer, who fought …

Emile Griffith, who fought …

Armando Muniz, who fought …

Carlos Palomino, who fought …

Wilfredo Rivera, who fought …

Shane Mosley, who fought …

Manny Pacquiao, who fought …

Jeff Horn, who fought …

Terence Crawford

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Degrees of separation: Connecting John L. Sullivan to Deontay Wilder

Degrees of Separation: Linking Filipino greats Flash Elorde, Manny Pacquiao

Degrees of Separation: Linking Japanese greats Fighting Harada and Naoya Inoue

Degrees of Separation: Linking Tyson Fury to first U.K.-born heavyweight champ

Degrees of Separation: Connecting Canelo Alvarez with Mexican legends

Degrees of Separation: Linking the Mayweathers

Degrees of Separation: Linking Manny Pacquiao to Pancho Villa

Degrees of Separation: Linking Manny Pacquiao to Pancho Villa

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. …

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 decided to feature Manny Pacquiao a second time. Earlier, we linked the future Hall of Famer to Filipino great Flash Elorde. We’re going back farther this time, connecting Pacquaio to the first Filipino to hold a world title, Pancho Villa.

Villa became flyweight champion when he stopped an aging Jimmy Wilde in  1923 and held the title until he died two years later, at only 23. Villa last fought in 1925, 95 years ago. So it took us 13 steps to connect him to Pacquiao.

Check it out:

Pancho Villa fought …

Jimmy McLarnin, who fought …

Lou Ambers, who fought …

Henry Armstrong, who fought …

Ray Robinson, who fought …

Joey Archer, who fought …

Emile Griffith, who fought …

Bennie Briscoe, who fought …

Marvin Hagler, who fought …

Ray Leonard, who fought …

Hector Camacho, who fought …

Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …

Manny Pacquiao

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Degrees of separation: Connecting John L. Sullivan to Deontay Wilder

Degrees of Separation: Linking Filipino greats Flash Elorde, Manny Pacquiao

Degrees of Separation: Linking Japanese greats Fighting Harada and Naoya Inoue

Degrees of Separation: Linking Tyson Fury to first U.K.-born heavyweight champ

Degrees of Separation: Connecting Canelo Alvarez with Mexican legends

Degrees of Separation: Linking the Mayweathers

Degrees of Separation: Linking the Mayweathers

In this installment of Degrees of Separation, Boxing Junkie links the three fighting Mayweathers — Floyd Sr., Roger and Floyd Jr.

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 decided to link the late Roger Mayweather with his protege and nephew Floyd Mayweather Jr., who carried on where Uncle Roger left off when he fought for the last time in 1999.

We didn’t have to work too hard to connect them, only three steps.

Check it out:

Roger Mayweather fought …

Kostya Tszyu, who fought …

Ricky Hatton, who fought …

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

We also wanted to see how many steps it would take to link Roger Mayweather with older brother Floyd Mayweather Sr., who left boxing in 1985 but came back for one fight in 1990.

It took us five steps:

Floyd Mayweather Sr. fought …

Ray Leonard, who fought …

Hector Camacho, who fought …

Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …

Julio Cesar Chavez, who fought …

Roger Mayweather

And, finally, to complete the circle, we linked Floyd Sr. and Jr. in four steps:

Floyd Mayweather Sr. fought …

Ray Leonard, who fought …

Hector Camacho, who fought …

Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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Degrees of separation: Connecting John L. Sullivan to Deontay Wilder

Degrees of Separation: Linking Filipino greats Flash Elorde, Manny Pacquiao

Degrees of Separation: Linking Japanese greats Fighting Harada and Naoya Inoue

Degrees of Separation: Linking Tyson Fury to first U.K.-born heavyweight champ

Degrees of Separation: Connecting Canelo Alvarez with Mexican legends

Degrees of Separation: Linking Lomachenko to Klitschko? We did it

Boxing Junkie managed to link Ukrainian legends Vasiliy Lomachenko and Wladimir Klitschko in spite of their weight disparity.

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 decided to challenge ourselves. We set out to link arguably the two greatest Ukrainian fighters of all time — current lightweight titleholder Vasiliy Lomachenko and retired heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko — without knowing whether it was possible.

Remember, Lomachenko started his career at 126 pounds and currently fights at 135. Klitschko fought at more than 240 pounds. We wondered whether it would be possible to find the opponents necessary to bridge that enormous gap.

Also, we didn’t have much to work with in Lomachenko’s case; he has had only 15 opponents.

How did it go? Very well, thank you. It turned out to be fairly easy to link the two countrymen. It took more steps than we would’ve liked — 10 — but we’ll take that given what seemed to be a difficult task at best.

Check it out:

Vasiliy Lomachenko fought …

Jorge Linares, who fought …

Antonio DeMarco, who fought …

Adrien Broner, who fought …

Manny Pacquiao, who fought …

Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …

Bernard Hopkins, who fought …

Roy Jones Jr., who fought …

John Ruiz, who fought …

David Haye, who fought …

Wladimir Klitschko

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Degrees of separation: Connecting John L. Sullivan to Deontay Wilder

Degrees of Separation: Linking Filipino greats Flash Elorde, Manny Pacquiao

Degrees of Separation: Linking Japanese greats Fighting Harada and Naoya Inoue

Degrees of Separation: Linking Tyson Fury to first U.K.-born heavyweight champ

Degrees of Separation: Connecting Canelo Alvarez with Mexican legends

Degrees of Separation: Linking Filipino greats Flash Elorde, Manny Pacquiao

Boxing Junkie linked Manny Pacquiao (right) to countryman and Hall of Famer Flash Elorde in six steps in our Degrees of Separation feature.

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 arguably the two greatest Filipino boxers of all time: the late Flash Elorde, who last fought in 1971, and the still-active Manny Pacquiao.

Elorde (89-27-2, 33 KOs) was a world junior lightweight champion from 1960 to 1967 and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Pacquiao (62-7-2, 39 KOs) has won titles in eight weight divisions. The Hall awaits him.

It took us only six steps to link the two even though Elorde’s final fight took place almost a half century ago.

Check it out:

Flash Elorde fought …

Ismael Laguna, who fought …

Ken Buchanan, who fought …

Roberto Duran, who fought …

Hector Camacho, who fought …

Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …

Manny Pacquiao, who fought …

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Degrees of separation: Connecting John L. Sullivan to Deontay Wilder

Degrees of Separation: Linking Japanese greats Fighting Harada to Naoya Inoue

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. …

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

Degrees of Separation: Linking Tyson Fury to first U.K.-born heavyweight champ

In this installment of Degrees of Separation, we link Tyson Fury to the first U.K.-born heavyweight champion, Bob Fitzsimmons in 11 steps.

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 the first installment of the new Boxing Junkie feature, we connected heavyweight titleholder Deontay Wilder to the first heavyweight champ of the modern era, John L. Sullivan.

Now, in third installment, it’s the turn of lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, who faces Wilder in a rematch on Feb. 22. We link “The Gypsy King” to the first U.K.-born heavyweight champion, Bob Fitzsimmons, who won the heavyweight title in 1897 and last fought in 1914.

And it took us only 12 steps, which isn’t bad given the century-plus between the fighters’ careers.

Check it out:

Bob Fitzsimmons fought …

Jack Johnson, who fought …

Jess Willard, who fought …

Jack Dempsey, who fought …

Jack Sharkey, who fought …

Joe Louis, who fought …

Rocky Marciano, who fought …

Archie Moore, who fought …

Muhammad Ali, who fought …

Larry Holmes, who fought …

Ray Mercer, who fought …

Wladimir Klitschko, who fought …

Tyson Fury

 

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Degrees of separation: Connecting John L. Sullivan to Deontay Wilder

Degrees of Separation: Connecting Canelo Alvarez with Mexican legends

Boxing Junkie connects Canelo Alvarez to his legendary Mexican counterparts Julio Cesar Chavez, Ruben Olivares and Salvador Sanchez.

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 the second installment of the new Boxing Junkie feature, we connect Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez to three of his countrymen who are widely considered the best their nation has produced: Julio Cesar Chavez, Ruben Olivares and Salvador Sanchez.

Chavez last fought in 2005, Olivares in 1988 and Sanchez in 1982.

Check it out:

CHAVEZ TO ALVAREZ

Julio Cesar Chavez fought …

Oscar De La Hoya, who fought …

Shane Mosley, who fought …

Canelo Alvarez

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OLIVARES TO ALVAREZ

Ruben Olivares fought …

Rafael Gandarilla, who fought …

Tracy Harris Patterson, who fought …

Arturo Gatti, who fought …

Floyd Mayweather, who fought …

Canelo Alvarez

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SANCHEZ TO ALVAREZ

Salvador Sanchez fought …

Juan Laporte, who fought …

John John Molina, who fought …

Shane Mosley, who fought …

Canelo Alvarez

 

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Degrees of separation: Connecting John L. Sullivan to Deontay Wilder

Degrees of Separation: Connecting fighters from different eras

Boxing Junkie kicks off a new feature — “Degrees of Separation,” in which we connect fighters from different eras.

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.

To kick off the new Boxing Junkie feature, we were more ambitious than that. We connected the first modern heavyweight champion – John L. Sullivan – with the current No. 1 big man in the sport – Deontay Wilder. And we did it in 15 steps.

Check it out:

John L. Sullivan fought …

James J. Corbett, who fought …

James J. Jeffries, who fought …

Jack Johnson, who fought …

Jess Willard, who fought …

Jack Dempsey, who fought …

Jack Sharkey, who fought …

Joe Louis, who fought …

Rocky Marciano, who fought …

Archie Moore, who fought …

Muhammad Ali, who fought …

Larry Holmes, who fought …

Evander Holyfield, who fought …

Nikolai Valuev, who fought …

Sergei Liakhovich, who fought …

Deontay Wilder

Whew! That took a while. But, in our defense, we bridged more than a century. Sullivan last fought in 1892 and Wilder, of course, is still active.

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