Boxers with more life's than a cat

John Ruiz 44-9-1 (1 NC)

Holds 2 losses early in his career before getting stopped cold in 2 by David Tua

Loses a title challenge against Evander Holyfield in 2000 but then avenges the defeat a year later and then draw the rubber match until losing to Roy Jones Jr

Beats Hasim Rahman for the interim WBA and then beats Fres Oquendo to regain the title before losing to James Toney (ruled a no contest after toney tests positive) and finally loses again to sugar nikolay valuev and Ruslan Chagaev in an eliminator

he then tries to avenge his defeat to valuev (in vain) and then goes onto fight the new champion david haye . . . . where he gets knocked the **** out

 

Erik Morales 52-9

Beats Daniel Zargoza for the WBC Super Bantamweight title and defends it numerous times until he comes across Marco Antonio Barrera which he wins a close (somewhat controversial decision) against Barrera until he loses the rematch 2 years later and the rubber match 3 years later

He then goes on to beat Pacquiao in a war before losing to Zahir Raheem and then losing 2 consecutive fights to Pacquiao via knockout and a decision loss to David Diaz for the WBC Lightweight title before retiring

Morales then comes back from retirement before getting a shot at the WBA Light welterweight title against Marcos Maidana in a brutal fight which he loses until picking up the vacant WBC against Pablo Cesar Cano and losing it in his first defence against Danny Garcia and then losing an immediate rematch via knockout

 

I think because he is a 3 time IBF, 1 time WBC and 1 time WBO champion, most likely.

 

Guillermo Jones

 

Morales Ruiz and khan were all worthy of shots at the title though

Audley Harrison is the ultimate in this

 

roman "rocky" martinez

 

Audley only got one shot. He didn't deserve it, but it was only one titleshot.
Ruiz got titleshot after titleshot, and the last one having won only 3 times in the last 5½ years (after the Golota gift) with only a 12 round decision over old McCline being somewhat relevant. The man got WBA titleshots like candy for a decade.

 

Andrew Golota - DQ against Bowe twice and gets a title shot against Lewis. Gets KOed and gets a fight with Tyson, gets KOed and gets a title chance against Byrd, gets a draw and then another title opportunity against Ruiz, loses and gets another title opportunity against Brewster.

Frans Botha to this day is getting opportunities to fight in semi-relevant fights and keeps losing.

Fought Moorer, Tyson, Lewis, Klitschko for world title, lost all.

 

My point with Harrison was

The sprott euro fight after being previously knocked out by him
Then an embarrassing attempt at David haye
Then in a comeback got battered for the British title by David price
Then still got good money to fight wilder

And he is coming back again
He hasn't deserved the haye price and wilder fights.a whole 5 rounds,3 knockouts and how much money

 

Jersey Joe Walcott had more lives than a cat.

Dude knocking Ezzard Charles spark out for the heavyweight championsip was stuff of legends.

 

Bhop. The guys a living legend. The only reason his 6 losses aren't held against him is that they only (cept the first) came against the very top guys of an era spanning quarter of a century.

Guess his status isn't really controversial, whatever you think of his style (I don't like it, but the guys ability to grind out a win is remarkable) or him personally- but he certainly got them 9 lives.

 

Amir Khan.

Done absolutely nothing in recent years and yet still gets big fights.

 

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Glenn johnson, Cory spinks.

 

For about 10 years, all Ruiz had to do was stay alive and he'd be guaranteed a WBA title shot.

Zab has had a lot of chances but it's somewhat understandable because he's usually got enough to make even his losses compelling viewing.