The Fringe Contender Thread

Harold Brazier?
Jesse Burnett?
Lonnie Bennett?
Jack Thompson?
Young Peter Jackson?
Harry Scott?
Panama Joe Gans?

 

Jim McDonnell - super-feather

 

Larry Middleton
Eddie Bossman Jones
Doug Demmings
Tom The Bomb Bethea
Curtis Parker

 

Mark kaylor ? - middleweight
Floyd Harvard ? - super-featherweight
Tom Collins ?? - light-heavyweight

 

The thing about being a fringe contender is that its a position which a lot of guys have been in, but didn't necessarily spend their WHOLE career in. Ross Purity was for the most part a journeyman but had spurts in his career where he could have qualified as fringe. Pierre Coetzer was ranked ridiculously high at the time he fought Bowe but was mostly fringe if truth be told. Prospects could reach the point of fringe before either moving to better things or fading into obscurity.

 

Yeah, not sure on this one.

Some of the better fringe contenders were once contenders or prospects that didn't live up to the hype or maybe a hot/cold type that could manage the odd big win but never follow up on it.

I would maybe go with Satterfield. He beat a large number of contenders but was rarely consistent enough to ever be considered a genuine contender himself.

 

I can't go with this.Satterfield was rated in 1951,52,53,& 55, by any definition that is a solid contender , not someone on the fringe.

 

What Mongoose said.... these guys have tendency to move around, either becoming legit contenders or stepping stones.

 

Ok I am not sure with this one

Alex Blanchard -Dutch light-heavyweight

 

He then picked a guy who was rated for 4 out of five years .How is that fringe?

 

'ATG' Fringe man...James Tillis.

 

Breidis Prescott

Emmanuel Augustus

Victoriano Sosa

Mo Harris

Barrett

 

Derry Matthews