Who's The Best HW Journeyman In History

None of these are journeymen.

 

George " Scrap iron " Johnson
Peter Maher
Jim " fireman" Flynn
Johnny " rubber man " Risko
Fred " nosher" Powell
yes/ no ? keep well.

 

Context needs to be applied. Is Ezzard Charles a journeyman coz he had 25 losses?

Henry Cooper was a contender, Bert Cooper was a contender who faded into journeyman status with age, Ferguson was the same. Chisora was a contender too. A journeyman is somebody like Kevin Johnson, or Dustin Nichols.

Hipp is the closest thing there to a journeyman but even he isn't somebody I'd regard as a journeyman, just a fighter.

 

Oh dear !!! too late to withdraw ? tin hat on..... keep well buddy.

 

There have been hundreds,how do you pick one out?
KO Christner
Joe Monte
Bill Gilliam
Salvatore Ruggirello
Hank Hankinson
Roberto Davila
Scrap Iron Johnson
That's the sort of level I think of.

 

Hmmm, some journeyman have more than adequate and basic boxing skill and ability and can trouble much better fighters on any given day (Emmanuel Augustus springs to mind).

I don't define journeyman by skill levels as skills and ability/opportunity to perform don't always match up.

You're probably looking for guys who get paid to travel anywhere, fight anywhere, often at short notice, to give up and coming prospects honest rounds without posing too much threat. Sometimes, because of how often they fight and how little they're relatively paid, these guys are actually quite fundamentally sound as they need to be active to pay the bills.

 

Ross Purrity