Fighters who should of become world champion but never did?

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  1. cobra1

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    what fighters deserved the shot and didnt get it or were good enough to be but were unsuccessful on the big night?
     
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    Roy Jones Jr should have established lineage in some weight class at some point.
     
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    Herol Graham got two shots,and with a little more enterprise in the first,against Mike McCallum,would have been crowned champ. Not many could have withstood the shot that he took from Julian Jackson in the second one.
     
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    Jim Driscoll
    Packey McFarland
    Owen Moran
    Billy Petrolle
    Mike Gibbons
    Joe Choynski
    Peter Jackson
    Charley Burley
    Holman Williams
    Lloyd Marshall

    SAM LANGFORD :good
     
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    earnie shavers
     
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  6. mcvey

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    No, I don't think so, he was a level below the best of his time.
    More of a "policeman" type, imo.
     
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    Joey Archer beat Dick Tiger and Hurricane Carter and IMO should have won the first fight vs Griffith for the title...Archer should have been a champion
     
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    If you look over his record he was lacking and he lost to many ordinary fighters at the time. Shavers legend as a puncher has been created by guys that beat him. No doubt he could punch but could not finish the job vs many all through his career
     
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    Bubi Scholz.
     
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  10. Rasch

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    Bert Gilroy
     
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    Simmie Black. Shoe-in for HOF though.
     
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    Didn't he get a third shot at someone else.

    Three bites of the cherry ..... he just wasn't good enough.
     
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    Jimmy Young, obviously.
     
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    Two bites of the cherry , enough's enough.
     
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    Charley Burley
     
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