Most shameless title defences of all time

Finito Lopez whole boxing career.

 

Holmes vs Zanon
Frazier vs Ziggy
Ali vs Coopman
Holmes vs Rodriguez
Eric Molina

Many more

 

Wilder has had quite a few.

 

Carlos Zarate had a few that were absolutely diabolical. He actually defended against Juan Francisco Rodriguez (8-1-1), Emilio Hernandez (4-4) and Mensah Kpalago (1-4). For someone so destructive prior to winning the title, he should have only been defending against the best.

 

Joe Frazier vs Terry Daniels was pretty bad.

 

Holmes had a number of softly chosen defenses. Evangelista and Zanon were easy beats. Leroy Jones hadn't beaten anyone. LeDoux had won 1 fight of his past 4. Rodriguez was more Euro filler, Scott Frank was terrible. It gets brushes over now because he gav ehim the fight of his life but Weaver was supposed to be an easy beat. He was 19-8. It may have been the fight they didn't even set odds on and most didn't know him. Against all odds it turned into a contender for FOTY and was Weavers coming out party.

 

Don't besmirch The Mallard.

Anyways - it's clearly out of Louis, Ali, Lennox or Usyk.

Rademacher or the Leon Spinks defence is probably the right answer.

 

The Mallard was quite the catchphrase back then wasn't it hahaha. Dinner was back here in the last couple of years resurrecting/reminiscing it.

 

A bad one was Michael Moorer defending against George Foreman - and losing !
The same year (1994) Lennox Lewis defended WBC heavyweight against Phil Jackson, a shameless cherry-pick.
Back in 1975 Muhammad Ali had Ron Lyle coming off a one-sided loss to Jimmy Young.

Usyk's talking about fighting Wilder next!
That would take the prize, as far a heavyweights go.

 

Ali vs the Lion of Flanders. Maybe Ali vs Richard Dunn.

 

Topped by Ali vs Leon Spinks, with Spinks winning. This fight was suppose to go like Floyd Patterson vs Pete Rademacher, but Leon spoled the party.

 

Buddy Scott lived 2 houses down from me in 70s and was my trainer for a short time. 167 fights and 126 wins.

 

McCoy was a title claimant at LHW back in 1935. Still he was one of Louis's worst defenses. The "Bum of the month" club were almost all highly deserving of that shot. Musto, Paycheck and Jack Roper were the only 3 who could be characterized as "easy" defenses. Dorazio beat McCoy and Bob Pastor and hes probably next worst.

 

Reading this from the first page on my phone in 2025. This is certainly too low, no? A 95% chance happening 21 times in a row is like 30%, isnt it?

 

It’s 34% and I have no idea why why I posted the wrong number.