Forgotten top contenders

Bobby Boyd ,I saw several times on TV in the underated 1950s...He was a very exciting middleweight who faced a lot of top middleweights in those
competitive days...Besides champion Joey Giardello who kod Bobby Boyd,take a gander of this roster who never became champion...
Georgie Benton
Spider Webb
Holly Mims
Rory Calhoun
Willie Troy
Rocky Castellani
Eduardo Lausse,and others who would have been champs in other times,
like today..I think I saw Giardello/ Boyd on TV,Sept, 1956...

 

Lazlo Papp
Eduardo Lausse
Laurent Dauthille
Henry Hank

 

You forget that Tom knocked Ruhlin stiff in one round. He also knocked out McCoy(who beat Ruhlin), Choynski(who went the distance with Gus) and showed much more impressively against Jeffries than Gus. Don't forget that Tom also gave Corbett a beating.

Ruhlin didn't start beating Sharkey until AFTER Tom had much of the fight taken out of him in the Jeffries bout. Prime for prime Sharkey was considered to be the better, more fearsome contender by all the reports I've studied.

 

Jock McAvoy was one of the very, very few that was rated in the Top 10 at 2 weights at the same time from those Golden Years, MW & L-HW. Very few fighters acheived this back then.

One of his rivals Arthur 'Ginger' Sadd was a forgotten Top 10 too.

 

Lonnie Bennett
Jesse Burnett
Bunny Sterling
Steve Belloise
Federico Thompson
Pedro Montanez
Rodolfo Casanova
Wes Ramey
Dwight Hawkins
"Wee" Willie Davies

 

So great to see Wee Willie remembered:good Possibly the greatest flyweight who never got a title shot. Beat Frankie Genaro, Midget Wolgast, Eugene Huat, Black Bill, Tony Marino, Jimmy Thomas, Newsboy Brown, Corporal Izzy Schwartz. Lost narrowly to Spider Pladner

Just a phenominal little fighter.