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Thread #99352   Message #1978179
Posted By: Jean(eanjay)
24-Feb-07 - 02:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
Subject: RE: BS: Worst prizefighter EVER?
I don't know anything about boxing so I decided to look at some websites on it because, for some reason, this thread appealed to me - probably because my father boxed in his youth in the army (and he was very good apparently) and he always enjoyed the sport. This is one of the things I found.

"Ask a hundred guys in the fight game who's the worst active boxer and you'll hear a hundred different names. Ask who's the worst boxer of the past 25 years and you'll probably hear only one: Bruce "The Mouse" Strauss.

Now 48 and living in Omaha, Strauss is able to laugh about his dubious career in the ring. "I hold three boxing records that I am especially proud of," he says. "I've been knocked out on every continent except the North Pole. I have been knocked out more than any other fighter. And I am the losing participant in the world's shortest fight - 11 seconds, counting the 10-count." "