The longest boxing match ever fought took place in New Orleans on Apr. 6, 1893. The match was between Andy Bowen and Jack Burke, both of whom claimed the lightweight title after the reigning champ, Jack McAuliffe, retired. When the bell sounded for the 111th round, more than seven hours into the fight, both fighters, dazed and weary, gave up and did not come out of their corners.
Meanwhile over a thousand miles north on ice covered Ellesmere Island Canada James Milner was busy fighting the Eskimo King Unnavasalet and his pack of man eating polar bears. Had this blood bath been organised as a boxing match it would have been recorded for the history books as being 23 hours long. That's 460 rounds. Milner won with ease having defeated the king and his tribe while smacking around every polar bear in the region. Since then Milner has been worshiped as a god by both Eskimo and polar bear alike.