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  1. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    Hard hitter
    Muscular physique
    Left hook
    “Under achiever”
    HW

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    Fogger Father, grandfather and big sports fan. Full Member

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    David Tua?
     
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    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Never really thought of Tua’s physique as ‘muscular.’

    Not that he was a weakling or anything, but more thicc. Kind of built like a fireplug but not overly muscled IMO.
     
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    Bigcheese Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Tommy Gunn
     
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    Fogger Father, grandfather and big sports fan. Full Member

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    That's fair.
     
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    Charles White Chucker Full Member

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    Cooney not super muscular but not a small man either.

    Morrison very muscular but he did win a portion of the title, so I guess it depends on what you mean by underachiever.

    Razor Ruddock very muscular and underachieved.

    Any of those guys?
     
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  7. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    The joke is it’s all of those guys.
     
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    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I immediately thought of Mike Weaver
     
  9. Mark Dunham

    Mark Dunham Well-Known Member Full Member

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    sounds like Mike Weaver because of his many losses, yet winning a title
     
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    Tire Iron Jones
    Morrison
    Tua
    Williams

    Basically anybody but Galento.
     
  11. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You can make a better case that Weaver overachieved, however. He was a club fighter who became one of the best and most consistent heavyweights of the 1980s (not named Larry Holmes).
     
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    Pugguy Ingo, The Thinking Man’s GOAT Full Member

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    Body shaming? Tsk..tsk.

    Two Ton actually had a 6 pack but it was kept inside a mini bar fridge.

    Old school: Galento was brought up to finish his plate clean….he just extended the theme to finishing everyone else’s plate also.

    Was he breast fed? Who knows…probably bypassed formula and went straight onto beer with a very fast flow teat.

    Apologies for the digression - Mike Weaver was my first thought also - left hook? Instantly think of the life immediately draining from the large form of Big John Tate after Hercules cracked him.
     
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    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I’ve narrowed it down to James Toney and Scott LeDoux.
     
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    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s Full Member

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    It’s actually Larry Holmes but a lot of guys mix up Scott and Toney for Larry. Very easy mistake.
     
  15. Saintpat

    Saintpat Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You’re thinking of Scott Frank. Common mistake.
     
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