Fighters Who Came Out Of Nowhere?

good pick although he had fought ernesto Marcel before he won the world title

 

Timothy Bradley
Ken Norton

Just a couple I thought of.

 

great shout hadnt even fought outside of California comes to Britain and beats Junior Witter whos a tricky tricky fighter to outpoint and now hes unified the division

 

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=035832&cat=boxer
winning wbc title in third fight!

 

Perhaps Duran when he smoked Buchanan?

He'd won a fight with local favorite Benny Huertas on the undercard of one of Buchanan's defenses, and that got him just enough notoriety to get a shot at Buchanan, but he was not well known to many boxing fans at that time, and he was not supposed to be in Buchanan's class.

 

Salvador Sanchez when he beat Danny Lopez.
Livingstone Bramble when he beat Mancini.

How about Benitez when he beat Cervantes?

 

Leon Spinks.

 

The main difference to what you mnetioned there would be bowe throwing the glove in the bin and refusing to fight

 

Not really unknown but Vince Phillips after the Tszyu fight probably rates a mention

 

Carlos Manuel Baldomir - Shows up to beat Judah for the Welter championship
Ricardo Mayorga - BAM!!! some nutjob in the ring takes out Forrest
Cristian Mijarez - Obliterates Arce and gets a string of impressive victories and unifies his division.
Vic Darchynian - Makes some noise, gets knocked out, then makes bigger noise.

 

Danny himself knew ****-all about Sanchez. It was suppose to be a "routine title defense." Shocked the **** out of me.

 

I don't know about that. Spinks was already well known as an Olympic gold medalist, and got a fair amount of media attention and TV exposure for his early pro fights.

 

Carlos Monzon didn't enter the bigtime arena with many bells and whistles. Especially considering he went on to possibly become the greatest 160 of them all.

 

Davey Moore.

 

Which one? Because the junior middleweight Davey Moore was a highly decorated amateur.