by Natasa Shepherd

Created on: July 01, 2009

There is a good chance that you, the reader, have never heard of Reggie Strickland and for good reason. Reggie Strickland will go down in history as one of the worst boxers that has ever lived.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio Reggie started his professional boxing career at the age young age of 19 and things didn't go to plan at all. His first fight ended in a unanimous decision loss, something that can happen to any amateur boxer that is stepping into the ring for the first time as a pro. Shaking off the cobwebs Reggie got back into the ring two months later against another new pro, Thomas Burton. Reggie battered Thomas so badly that the referee would no longer allow him to fight, things were looking up. Maybe Reggie could salvage a professional career yet.

For the next year he would fight as a terrifying pace of a fight every month, something that hadn't been seen since the dark ages of boxing. Needless to say, he lost every fight. He would then only fight once the next year, possibly contemplating ending his career which had come to a horrible record of 1-7-0. But if that were the case I wouldn't be here now writing about him.

Reggie would push on, boxing at the amazingly frequent pace that at some points was just out of control, for example in the month of September 1990, Reggie boxed at an abnormally fast pace:

On the 12th he fought Pat Coleman and lost on points
On the 14th he fought Albert Grady and won via split decision (Grady was also amassing a horrible record at the time, as he was 0-6-0 going into the fight)
On the 18th he fought Mickle Orr and lost on points
And finally on the 20th he fought Michael Taylor and lost on points.

What's more surprising about this arrangement of fights? Well on that week and 1 day boxing bender Reggie was on, he had fought 5 times with 4 of those fights being in different states. Starting in Illinois, Reggie went through Wisconsin, Indiana and ended in Kentucky. This wouldn't be the first time Reggie would do something crazy like that.

From 1987 all the way to 2005, Reggie had boxed a total of 363 times, boxing in 2033 rounds of action. Of these 363 matches Reggie had participated in he won 66 of them with just 14 coming by way of knockout. He lost 276 of these fights and holds what must be the record for the highest number of draws in a professional career with 17 fights declared a tie.

It would be crazy to say that there was a boxer worse than Reggie Strickland, but they do exist and are a lot more

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