Harry Mullan’s Ultimate Encyclopedia of BOXING states that the longest unbeaten streak is Hal Bagwell.105-8 (183) 1938-48, Gloucester, UK. Boxrec shows his streak at 65-0-4. Packey Mc Farland (97) 1905-15, Chicago, IL, Boxrec shows a record of 107-1-5 and 70-0-5.
Pedro Carrasco (93), 1964-71, WBC Light Champion from Huelva, Spain. A previous European champion. He won the WDQ12 title over Mando Ramos, 31-4, then lost consecutive fights to Ramos.
Middleweight and welterweight champion “Sugar” Ray Robinson (91), 1943-51. It was 89-0-2. Robinson won his first 40 fights before losing to middleweight champion Jake ‘Bronx Bull’ LaMotta, 30-5-2. Five fights later, he defeated LaMotta for the title. He beat LaMotta in 4 out of 5 fights.
Robinson was 129-1-2 when he lost to Randy Turpin, 40-2-1, in London, United Kingdom, in July 1951. Two months later, in September at the New York Polo Grounds, he defeated Turpin by stoppage in 10 rounds. Five fights after losing to Turpin he defeated Henry ‘Homicide Hank’ Armstrong, 132-17-8, who held the featherweight, welterweight and then lightweight titles all at the same time. Of course, Armstrong was a former champion past his prime and possibly the second P4P boxer after Robinson.
More in the modern era was WBO, IBF and WBA Super Middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe from Wales, who arrived in the United States at 44-0, defeating former champion Bernard Hopkins, 48-4-1, who went to conquer another world. championship He then defeated former champion Roy Jones, Jr., 52-4, who was past his prime and never fought. Calzaghe had difficulties with his hands, which caused his retirement. He became a unified champion, defeating the WBA and WBC champion of Denmark Mikkel Kessler, 39-0, in the previous fight before Hopkins.
Mexico’s Julio ‘JC’ Chavez, 107-6-2, was 89-0-1 when he lost for the first time
Frankie “The Surgeon” Randall, 48-2-1. He would defeat Randall in the rematch. He was 96-1-1 when he lost to Olympic Gold Medalist Oscar De La Hoya, 21-0.
Of course, two champions who retired undefeated were heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, 49-0, and multi-division champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather, 50-0. Today, the undefeated with the most wins is former two-time world division champion Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford, 40-0. Current bantamweight champion Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez, who went 44-0 lost to Dimitrii Bivol, then 20-0.
Here you have it for the winningest boxers. Now, let’s take a brief look at boxers biggest losers. Kristian Laight, of the United Kingdom, 12-279-9, with the most losses. Still active is Fonz Alexander, 9-167-1, of the United Kingdom, currently ranked eleventh with the most losses.
The worst record is Bheki ‘Black Tiger’ Moyo, 0-73-2, of Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom. He retired in 2015. Miguel Urdaneta, 0-37-1, is still active in Venezuela. Also active are Jake Pollard, 1-80, of the United Kingdom, Ganadij Krajevskij, 1-74, of Lithuania and the United Kingdom, and Jake Osgood, 1-61, of the United Kingdom.
There you have it, boxing fans, the winningest and losingest boxers.
