A niche but impressive bragging right: only man ever to crack his era's toughest nut.

Bennie Briscoe would have the distinction of booting up for hard-brawling warfare 95 times without ever once having being stopped - if you only subtracted Briscoe vs. Rodrigo Valdéz Hernández II from existence. In fact, even The Colombian Rocky fought him thrice and never so much as dropped him in his UD over 12 in their first encounter, nor over 15 in their unifying rubber match for the vacant WBC & WBA middleweight titles. On the night of that rematch, however, Valdéz weathered a violent storm with almost two minutes of sustained heavy pressure from The Black Robot to start that seventh round, before eradicating him essentially with a dozen or so blows starting with a mean check left hook on the zygomatic bone from which the Philly slugger probably never fully recovered. Just like that, he takes away the claim I'm sure Bennie would have been happy to hold onto as part of his legacy.

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Then you have Tögstsogt "King Tug" Nyambayar spoiling Juan "Fénix" Ruiz's chances of riding off into the sunset with his loss column unadorned by parentheses. (after some forum dweeb called IB had spent the better part of a decade crowing about the Mexican-American journeyman having the p4p best chin in the game and in fact being nigh unstoppable)

Of course, the archetype of these is arguably also the most famous fight of the 20th century (RITJ), but let's hear some obscurer shouts.

Preferably no padded record guys who stepped up, got crunched, and were then never seen again. (I was going to cite Joe Lipsey Jr. for an example here, but hesitate as there are quite a few people - not just keyboard experts but contemporaries and historians - who apparently believe Lipsey was in fact a tough & talented contender that B-Hop just straight-up ruined)

 

Good one yes. And not as though JHL never fought a puncher before. Of course, no Joe Louises, but plenty of respectable sorts. Al Gainer had a feared left hook and was survived and beaten twice. Isidoro Gaztañaga was literally called "Martillo Pilón" (or "battering ram") and put Lewis down twice but not out in their split pair. Jock McAvoy, Tiger Jack Fox...

 

Al Bummy Davis, Aurel Roma, and of course The Raging Bull taking the honors.

 

Third time was the charm for the Manassa Mauler, yet another feather in his cap.

 

Eh, he was the only man to stop Jake in the 1940's but can't claim to be the only one to do it, period.

 

There are quite a few "close but no cigar" types... Greb was stopped twice, by Chip and Graves, etc.

 

Ugh, speaking of SSM, loathe to mention it but technically, while he probably ought to have gone down as someone that was never stopped, he did have that loss to Mundine via TKO due to a back injury. What a rotten piece of luck, and why on earth did it have to be Choc of all people to bag such a fat goose.