Time quiz

I'm bored - and should be working:

10 (can't count, sorry) boxers have made the cover of time magazine since Jack Dempsey in 1923. Mars bar if you can name them and the dates (give or take a year or 2)

1. Dempsey 1923
2. Tunney 1926 (Windy)
3. Schmeling 1929(CHRIS)
4. Carnera 1931 (Chris)
5. Louis 1941 (CHRIS)
6. SRR 1951 (CHRIS)
7. Clay 1966 (Chris)
8. Ali Frazier 1971 (Windy)
9. Ali (1978) (CHRIS)
10. Tyson (1988) (CHRIS)
11. Pacquiao

Complete guesses, but what the hell...

Joe Louis, 1937
Rocky Marciano, 1956
Ray Robinson, 1951
Muhammad Ali, 1974
Mike Tyson, 1987
Ray Leonard, 1980
Oscar De la Hoya, 1999
Max Schmeling, 2005
Manny Pacquiao, 2010

How's my aim?

Not too bad Chris!

Do you get a point if you can name the boxer, but not the year?

No Leonard, Marciano or DLH though.

Emile Griffith / Benny Paret, 1962
Henry Armstrong, 1938
Barney Ross, 1946
Floyd Patterson, 1956

Any of those any good?

Nope, none of them.

Perhaps I'm being unfair - Ali made the cover 3 times; in 1966, 1978 and once more - and the once more was with another boxer. Care for a guess at date and the other boxer's identity?

Must be Frazier, in 1971.

I guess Tunney would have made it in 1926, too.

Good work as always. Thought someone might pick Foreman

Anyway - one more to go.

Braddock in 1935, perhaps?

88Chris05 wrote:Braddock in 1935, perhaps?

Good shout, but no.

Primo Carnera in 1933?

Len Harvey / Jock McAvoy in 1938 for the first televised fight?

Well done!

Yours is a mars bar, if you ever choose to claim it.

Whats interesting about that list - is that all but 2 are HWs - and the people who DIDN'T make it - including

Marciano, JCC, ODLH, SRL, Duran.

These were transcendent stars. Shows Pacquiao's appeal that he DID make it.

Here is the Pacquiao article, complementary:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1935091-1,00.html

That's alright Oxy, you can keep it as a reward for the educational article.

Nice one, oxy, and very well done, Chris.