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With a career lasting 8 years, southpaw Claude Martin started off his career at age 20 on April 1973, last fighting in 0 and building a record of 34-6-2. Martin in his 42 fights. The longest KO streak that Martin has ever had is 3 throughout his 42 fights and his longest winning streak is 10 wins. This started on September 1973 and came to an end on January 1979.
In October 1973 Martin faced Mohammed Alem in his debut bout over 6 rounds, but only 4 were needed as Martin became the quickest person ever to stop Alem via a 4 round KO victory. Following on from his debut, Martin continued his mostly successful career by fighting in a further 21 fights. In this time he fought Gerard Breton, Alex Tompkins and Marcel Giordanella to name just a few, fighting 3 times in 1973, 3 times in 1974 and 11 times through 1975, 1976 and 1977 in this period.
Pushing his career further, Martin fought Marcel Giordanella on October 30th, 1976 adding to his winning record. Becoming the 2nd fighter to stop Giordanella, Martin beat Giordanella via TKO in the 8th round of a 10 round fight.
Martin's career took a knock with a loss against Joel Bonnetaz on December 11th, 1976 taking his record to 18-3-1. Martin failed to go into the later rounds with Bonnetaz, with Bonnetaz stopping him in the 3rd round and becoming the 3rd person to stop Martin. Martin's win streak of 18 rose to 21 following 3 great wins, becoming the 15th person to beat Kevin White, 10th person to defeat Mickey Ryce and 32nd person to defeat John Smith.
Martin kept his losses at 3 by beating Marcel Giordanella on October 15th, 1977. The win against Giordanella came in the 6th round of a 12 round fight via KO. Martin was the 3rd person to stop Giordanella. Martin then went on to win a further 6 fights taking his record to 28 wins, 3 losses and 1 draws.
Martin went into his next fight against Jose Hernandez on April 28th, 1979 with a career record of 28-4-1. Martin's fight against Jose Hernandez was Martin's 4th stoppage defeat which came via KO in the 6th round of the fight. Martin's win streak of 28 rose to 31 following 3 great wins, becoming the 17th person to defeat Horace Mckenzie and fought Georges Warusfel.
Martin lost to Louis Acaries in his next fight. Taking place on December 18th, 1980, Martin's career record after this fight stood at 31-5-2. Martin was stopped by Louis Acaries in the 10th round of a 12 round fight via TKO. It was Martin's 5th stoppage defeat in his career.
On November 28th, 1981, Martin took on and was defeated by Luigi Minchillo meaning his career tally went to 34-6-2 In one last attempt to prove he still had what it takes, Martin was unfortunately stopped in the 1st round of a 12 round fight. Minchillo was only the 6th person to stop Martin to end his 42 fight career.