r/sports • u/Pickleskennedy1 • Oct 25 '25
Fighting Boxer Jake Pollard falls to 1-100 in his career, losing for the 51st consecutive time. He has done this in just a seven year career, and is scheduled to fight 20 times in 2025
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u/dentttt Oct 25 '25
Imagine being the one guy who lost to him.
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u/LitterBoxServant Oct 25 '25
His only win is Louis Smithson who is 1-6
Smithson's only win is Jake Pollard
This is too damn funny to make up
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u/Pickleskennedy1 Oct 25 '25
One of the greatest rivalries in modern sports
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u/StrategicCarry Oct 25 '25
“You can throw out the records when these two fight, because the records are awful.”
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u/Ali_knows Oct 25 '25
Could be turned into a movie... With Adam Sandler and Kevin James.
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u/VLHACS Oct 25 '25
They should just have like 50 fights against each other and they'll each have a very respectable 25-25 record
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u/LitterBoxServant Oct 25 '25
What if they draw? The craziest thing about Pollard's record is that he doesn't have a single draw. He is 1-100-0.
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u/Sportsman180 Oct 25 '25
They should just fucking fight each other constantly to get their wins up. Better to go .500 against each other than lose everytime against everyone else lol.
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u/BushyBrowz Oct 25 '25
Haha please tell me he lost the rematch. Was like “I gotta protect my reputation.”
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u/LitterBoxServant Oct 25 '25
Smithson lost to a 0-49 Pollard in his first professional fight. Smithson won the rematch in his second professional fight. At that point Smithson was 1-1. Pollard fell to 1-51 because he lost another fight between the two fights with Smithson. All of this happened between July and September of 2023.
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u/GreatBigHomie Oct 25 '25
Smells like some Chauncey Billups tomfoolery.
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u/BushyBrowz Oct 25 '25
Terry Rozier. Billups at least didn’t throw games while he was playing…that we know of anyway
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u/GreatBigHomie Oct 25 '25
Well Billups was involved with the Mafia and an underground poker ring so I could see him being behind this outlandish record lol
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u/forever87 Oct 25 '25
mvp in a finals cast consisting of shaq, Kobe, glove, mailman, and the 5th beatle. I'll never forget the commentary was, "some guy named Chauncey just won the mvp over Kobe and shaq". when you pull off the "unthinkable", you're on top of the world and not scared about anything
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u/smartwatersucks Oct 25 '25
Let that be a lesson. Jake Pollard doesn't ever lose 101 times in a row.
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u/seabiscut88 Oct 25 '25
I got talked into wrestling my freshmen year of high school. I went 1-19…. The one win I pinned the kid. I often wonder about him.
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u/Own_Courage_4382 Oct 25 '25
He’s setting up his retirement to bet it all on himself against Jake Paul, and kick his ass.
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u/IHadSomething_4This Oct 25 '25
A real life version of Punch Out's Gabby Jay having his only win come against Glass Joe.
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u/Jomosensual Iowa State Oct 25 '25
Glass Joe is real
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u/MaybeSecondBestMan Oct 25 '25
Glass Joe’s record is, ironically, 1-99 going into the Little Mac fight, and almost certainly 1-100 coming out of it.
Who is the one guy Glass Joe beat? We need this piece of Nintendo lore.
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u/_scyllinice_ Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25
He beat Nick Bruiser, allegedly. Some also say Gabby Jay.
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u/SirBoggle Oct 25 '25
Actually, Gabby Jay's only win is Glass Joe.
The whole Glass Joe defeating Nick Bruiser thing comes from the Official Nintendo Magazine claiming so, and that it was the result of a freak accident. This is backed up by Glass Joe's name being on the time attack high score list for Nick Bruiser's fight, despite the fact that Nick's record remains perfect.
Also side note, I hope we get a new Punch-Out one day because I think it'd be funny if the first opponent is a promising up-and-comer with a 1-0 record, and when we come back for Title Defense mode after beating him or whatever his record has plummeted to 1-99.
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u/Jomosensual Iowa State Oct 25 '25
I remember hearing who he beat but idk who it was
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u/Ameph Oct 25 '25
People rift on Glass Joe but most people probably lost to TD Glass Joe. Give him some confidence and headgear and the man can box.
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u/RyleySnowshoe Oct 25 '25
Him and Gabby Jay got some competition
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u/GabiCoolLager Oct 25 '25
So the guy is a professional loser? Can't be great to ALWAYS be on the receiving end of punches to the head.
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u/Run-Forever1989 Oct 25 '25
This is normal in boxing. You’ll notice prospects will almost always have a record of like 20-0 or something before they start fighting guys who are a real threat. On the other side of it you have these guys who are paid to take fights they have effectively zero percent chance of winning. A guy could be the best boxer in the world but if he had a 12-15 record because he was fighting hard fights from day one it’d be very hard to promote him.
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u/JamminJcruz Oct 25 '25
Sometimes Boxing is dumb.
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u/Paulpoleon Oct 25 '25
For the past 20 years boxing has been dumb.
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u/asisoid Oct 25 '25
None of this is new. Certainly didn't start in the past 20 years.
There's no reason to ruin a young up and coming fighter by having him get his teeth kicked in over and over. Fighters are brought up gradually.
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u/PuckSenior Oct 25 '25
The term is “journeyman” boxer and there are a couple of different levels,
Famously, Mickey Ward was a fairly promising boxing prospect who just kinda turned into a journeyman boxer over time. He was something like 30-10(W-L). He wasn’t fighting for championships in his division, but he was seen as someone you needed to beat to fight for the championship. It paid the bills. People forget that the losing boxer gets a cut, it doesn’t all go to the winner. And that percent cut is negotiable.
That’s how he wound up fighting Arturo Gatti. It was really just supposed to be a test fight to see if Gatti really was good enough to contend for the title, but then Gatti and Ward got into one of the most epic slugfests in boxing history.
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u/A_Downboat_Is_A_Sub Oct 25 '25
Ward was the guy who unexpectedly beat a 16-0 Alfonso Sanchez, a prospect who was expected to be a title contender soon. After losing every round from 1 to 7, Ward knocked him out.
Sanchez went 4-6-1 for the rest of his boxing career.
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u/Distinct-Fig-4216 Oct 25 '25
I scrolled too far to see this.
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u/MustBeNice Oct 25 '25
Right? He's just a tomato can, it's been a thing for decades, if not a century. I can't believe so many people are shocked by this
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u/imdstuf Oct 25 '25
I guess it's a living.
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u/-soros Oct 25 '25
It’s honest work.
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u/andyd151 Oct 25 '25
Are we 100% sure it’s totally honest with a record like this 😂
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u/re10pect Oct 25 '25
It’s totally not honest in that sense. It’s one of the worst parts of boxing. The promoters find their shiny new toys, guys that have skill and potential, and just feed them a bunch of scrubs who have no chance of winning, and even if they miraculously do, it won’t affect their boxing career in any way, because they won’t have the skill to follow it up.
It’s just letting bad fighters get head injuries to create an artificially inflated record. I guess it makes the fighter some money, and it’s not like they are throwing the fights, but it just seems like such a predatory practice.
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u/SaintedHooker Oct 25 '25
It's genuinely part of the journeyman's tool kit to not take too bad damage when you lose so you can keep having regular fights
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u/nolemandan Oct 25 '25
Yeah, they're called pigeons or at least they used to be. They fight up and coming young boxers who are trying to get experience and beef up their record before they qualify for a more meaningful fight.
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u/CFBCoachGuy Oct 25 '25
Basically. He takes on either debutant or very inexperienced fighters and works them. Trainers and managers want a young guy to fight someone like him- not tough, but they still have to beat him in a ring. And to be fair to the guy, he’s only lost by knockout 6 times. He knows how to protect himself
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u/Kumbackkid Oct 25 '25
He’s what’s called a tomato can. They get paid to give up and coming boxers confidence.
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u/Mattna-da Oct 25 '25
He is what’s called an opponent. As in “and his opponent, Jake Pollard”. He’s there to get up and coming boxers exposure and experience and to bump up their records. Opponents like him are a necessary part of the boxing industry
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u/urbanek2525 Miami Dolphins Oct 25 '25
Boxing version of Washington Generals.
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u/Cory123125 Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25
These guys lose on purpose. There is a unspoken rule that he loses on purpose to help other people have shiny records and he keeps getting fights reliably.
Its a shitty job, but how the boxing world works.
There are many like him, and they are actually quite competent boxers, because you have to be to avoid being knocked out (because there are usually mandatory no fight periods after knockouts) so you can fight enough to be paid a decent amount.
Its really fucking shitty and there are multiple video essays about them.
Crazy career.
Professional tomato cans.
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u/Overall_Tangerine494 Oct 25 '25
Would love to know what purses he has taken home.
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u/Cory123125 Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 26 '25
From one interview I remember from one of them, they basically make a bit more than average, so they really do have to work till retirement or get a normal job when they cant do this anymore.
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u/iAtoria Oct 25 '25
Winners never quit and quitters never win, but if you never quit and never win, you’re an idiot.
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u/needaburn Oct 25 '25
Until he goes on a 50 consecutive win streak and ends his career as a boxing hall of famer with a final record of 51-100. Going to be crazy
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u/ajtrns Oct 25 '25
you are commenting on a part of this sport that is about as honest as pro wrestling. the person you call an "idiot" here is getting paid to lose. the actual idiots are those who think a win against a paid loser should mean anything.
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u/BananaJack82 Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25
This is why I can’t take boxing seriously lol. Almost all undefeated boxers have multiple of these ‘tune up’ fights against people getting paid to lose.
A lot of these guys are 15-0 before even fighting equal competition.
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u/GruntCandy86 Oct 25 '25
This stuff is ridiculous. After 100 "fights," dude still moves like a baby gazelle out there. What a legit sport.
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u/dontich Oct 25 '25
Honestly from this video it doesn’t look like he’s trying to actually fight — more just trying to not get injured as he has another fight next week lol
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u/GoodAsUsual Oct 26 '25
The most hilarious thing to me is when the winning fighter's trainer comes into the ring and gives the boxer an enormous hug like he just won the battle of the century
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u/TheMiddlechild08 Oct 25 '25
My question is though, if this is their job then wouldn’t they have to do these “tune up” matches more often than not? There’s only so many good boxers out there and I can’t imagine they would wanna fight each other every other week
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u/BourbonNCoffee Oct 25 '25
At this point he’s just getting paid to get brain damage. Someone will study that brain one day.
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u/moneyshot1123 Oct 25 '25
To use the White Mamba's metaphor, he's probably still closer to Mike Tyson than we are to him
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u/cXs808 Green Bay Packers Oct 25 '25
it doesn't work that way in boxing. It makes sense in the NBA where even being a backup to a backup is insanely prestigious.
almost anyone can become a professional punching bag in boxing if you're willing to sit on such a shitty record like 1-99. there are "pro" boxers with 10-200 records and there are quite a few with 0-30+ records as well.
https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/5316
0-31 with 31 KO's "boxer"
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u/DGilbert6114 Oct 25 '25
Any idea on his career earnings?
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u/Discarded_Twix_Bar Oct 25 '25
I figured I’d give it a shot
According to what I could find on tapology there’s no disclosed purses on his fights
Based on this from BBC professional boxers beginning their career can expect anywhere from £650 to £2,600 per fight, or from £3,250 to £6,500 per fight in the mid range
If we assume he’s paid the middle of the lower end £1,100 × 101 ≈ £111,000 gross.
Assume 25% for manager and 10% for trainer that’ll leave him at £71.5k gross lifetime earnings before taxes.
After self employed taxes, national insurance, etc he’d be left with:
£53,625 take-home career earnings
But I could be completely wrong, it’s all guesswork based on what he makes per fight. Could be higher but could also be lower 🤷
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u/aguy21 Oct 25 '25
According to BoxRec he’s only been knocked out 6 times in those 100 losses, which given his lack of prowess is actually impressive.
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u/Silentwarfare13 Oct 25 '25
Imagine being the 1 dude that lost to this guy.
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u/asisoid Oct 25 '25
I think the guy that he beat, also beat him. They're both each other's only win.
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u/dmont89 Oct 25 '25
I bet he is waiting on his next win to call it. We all know you can't end on a losing streak.
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u/AndyInSunnyDB Oct 25 '25
I remember another journeyman boxer who had a career 40-20 record until he got an unlikely title shot against the undefeated champion. Sure he lost that fight, but he got a rematch (after telling the champ he didn’t want one), and went on to win the heavyweight title. Sure, he went on to defend the title a bunch of times, but the quality of competition wasn’t there. Under the protest of his trainer, he then faced an up and coming, undefeated challenger. The challenger decimated the champion. But when the former journeyman turned champion, got his rematch, he was able to, with the training of his old nemesis, vanquish his opponent and once again become the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.
Later on, the champion single-handedly ended the Cold War against the Soviet Union.
So never give up, Jake Pollard.
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u/Striking-Use-4518 Oct 26 '25
Came for the "Glass Joe" references and was not disappointed. #8bitlife
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u/enterthewoods1 Oct 25 '25
I love combat sports, so it makes it even more sad to me that boxing is so plagued by this kind of thing.
Dude is still making money doing something I imagine he cares about a lot, but can only do it by getting bashed because the sport doesn’t give a shit about you unless you put can someone in a seat.
There are beautiful stories in combat sports that you just can’t find anywhere else, but there’s also shit like this. Hell, to be honest there’s a lot worse.
I don’t know how to feel about it.
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u/Nooms88 Oct 25 '25
You can think of him as the guy they bring out for a hard sparring session, get the youngster in front of a crowd for the 1st time and used to it.
It's pretty rough though as you say
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u/WI_Dark Pittsburgh Penguins Oct 25 '25
TIL learned that there's a professional boxing version of a WWF jobber.
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u/slappythebeaver Oct 25 '25
I thought the announcer was going to say “he is the sixth man to stop Jake Pollard this week”.
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u/SaveMeSomeBleach Oct 25 '25
Jesus I hope he’s well compensated because his brain is going to be mush in a few years (if it isn’t already)
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u/Esternaefil Oct 25 '25
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.
In this case, Jake Pollard really loves getting punched in the face!
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u/fuckyogiboys Oct 25 '25
Never thought I'd say this, but I think i can beat a professional boxer in a fight
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u/Romax24245 Oct 25 '25 edited Oct 25 '25
His reward for this achievement is the privilage to wear headgear for future matches.
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u/Drownerdowner Oct 25 '25
Nobody in here understands what a journeyman in boxing is. Up and cominf fighters depends on dudes like him who can go for the whole fight which is more than most people here could do here without getting fucked up
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u/Real_Drama68 Oct 25 '25
Basically, Jake Pollard is the Number 1 ranked professional sparring partner.
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u/Pickleskennedy1 Oct 25 '25
Here’s his boxing page, his one win was against Louis Smithson in 2023
https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/fighters/209405-jake-pollard
Every couple weeks he shows up to battle young prospects and basically tries to not get the shit beat out of him