IT WAS a dizzy time, a crazy time and nothing happening in modern boxing can compare with the total lunacy of March 2002 when 19 British men held versions of the world title.
Yep, 19 men, including Lennox Lewis, obviously. The rest of the statistics are equally ridiculous.
The men held a total of 21 different belts, from a staggering eight different sanctioning bodies, spread across a stupendous 11 different weights. And, they had made, by the end of March 2002, a total of 57 defences. Most of the defences were on television in Britain –
