Festive boxing trivia quiz.

Let's see if we can revive this old chestnut while we're still enjoying the festive season and, presumably, in light hearted mood. You know the score ; somebody asks a question and the person who provides the correct answer asks the next question, and so on.

I'll get the ball rolling with a fairly easy one :

One of the most controversial title fights in heavyweight history is linked to a true legend of boxing ( not a heavyweight, ) by a major US city and a relative who is not yet famous but will become famous immediately after the fight in question.

Who are the relatives, which is the city and which is the title fight?

A relative to whom Windy?

To the true legend of boxing, Ghosty.

Well and truly stumped Windy, thought you said it was easy.

And you say its easy

Baffled isn the word!

Is this the one where a brother stepped in last minute and won the title??

Chicago, the long count fight, Jimmy and Dave Barry?

Yeah, what he said.

Imperial Ghosty wrote:Chicago, the long count fight, Jimmy and Dave Barry?

Bingo!

The second Dempsey v Tunney fight, held in Chicago, was steeped in controversy because of the ' long count.' Referee Dave Barry became infamous overnight due to his handling of the events. Barry was a native of Chicago and so was his brother, Jimmy, who was already a legend and regarded as one of the greatest bantamweights of all time. He was also one of the few men to have retired undefeated.

Well done, Ghosty. Your turn.

Who are the only 4 men to have held all four major world titles in the same division?

Simultaneously or not necessarily, Ghosty?

Doesn't have to be simultaneously.

Roy Jones, Lennox Lewis, think B-Hop did it, are you sure there's 4?

Jones and Lewis are No's.

Oscar, Hop, Darius M?

!? I am sure Roy Jones did! :O he even helf the coveted WBF title at the same time did he not?

Imperial Ghosty wrote:Doesn't have to be simultaneously.

In that case I don't have a prayer, so I will enjoy watching from the sidelines while the young guns show me how it's done.

Hopkins, Naz, Chavez, Oscar?

Hopkins is a yes, all others are a No.

Jones held the WBC, WBA, IBF, IBO, WBF but never held the WBO at light heavyweight.

HumanWindmill wrote:

Imperial Ghosty wrote:Doesn't have to be simultaneously.

In that case I don't have a prayer, so I will enjoy watching from the sidelines while the young guns show me how it's done.

And az.

HumanWindmill wrote:And az.

Windy you're a gem. Slightly unpolished one though.

Jermain Taylor beat B-Hop so i guess he is one?

azania wrote:

HumanWindmill wrote:And az.

Windy you're a gem. Slightly unpolished one though.

Why thank you, az, and so long as there isn't a ykocR aMracion thread within a light year of the two of us I feel precisely the same about you.

Taylor and Hopkins are two out of the four.

Jermain Taylor would be one as he beat B-Hop yes?

Bit late there wasn't I...

HumanWindmill wrote:

azania wrote:

HumanWindmill wrote:And az.

Windy you're a gem. Slightly unpolished one though.

Why thank you, az, and so long as there isn't a ykocR aMracion thread within a light year of the two of us I feel precisely the same about you.

You know I appreciate Wocky. Its all about perspectives old man.

Joe Calzaghe! Can't get the final one!

Virgil Hill

Calzaghe is the third one, just looking for the fourth and final one.

Hamed held them all at 126?

He never held the WBA title, it was stripped from Vazquez before their fight because of Hamed holding the WBO title.

AlexHuckerby wrote:Hamed held them all at 126?

That's what I thought - not simultaneously but am sure he held them all at one time or another.

Not Virgil Hill - he may have held them all but it woudl have been across two divisions.

I'm doing a bit of googling for this, because I'm properly stumped.

I'll give you a cryptic clue- Rendall Munroe.

Toshiaka Nishioka?

No it's a cryptic clue.

Hmm... This would work so much better if I knew what a cryptic clue was...

Munroe is "The Boxing Binman" so it is something to dow ith garbage which leads me to think Bowe threw his belt in the bin so it's Riddick Bowe?

Bowe, Hopkins, Taylor and Calzaghe are the four.

Imperial Ghosty wrote:No it's a cryptic clue.

I thought it could be an anagram so started looking at anagrams for Rendall Munroe - Mundane Roller was the best I could come up with.

Over to you Alex.

The Mundane Roller just sounds like the worst Boxing nickname ever.

Might be a bit easy for some but not sure:

Who was the first ever boxer to incorporate a style in which his hands were held low?

AlexHuckerby wrote:Might be a bit easy for some but not sure:

Who was the first ever boxer to incorporate a style in which his hands were held low?

James Figg

AlexHuckerby wrote:Might be a bit easy for some but not sure:

Who was the first ever boxer to incorporate a style in which his hands were held low?

Caveman

AlexHuckerby wrote:Might be a bit easy for some but not sure:

Who was the first ever boxer to incorporate a style in which his hands were held low?

Former US Presidential candidate, John McCain?

I don't understand the John McCain one...