That made Baldimir an ideal opponent for Mayweather. He was scared stiff he was going to be forced to fight Antonio Margarito after what he did to Cotto
Carl Drumond vs Ruslan Chagaev, Owen Beck vs Nicolay Valuev (probably the most untalented pair of fighters to ever dispute a heavyweight belt), Gary Lockett vs Kelly Pavlik, and quite a few of Golovkin's challengers, Wade, Martirosyan, Rubio come to mind. Also Nadjib Mohammedi vs Sergei Kovalev and Morrade Hakkar vs Bernard Hopkins.
In recent years I’ll go with: Luke Keeler vs Andrade Jason Welburn vs Jarret Hurd And almost all of Navarette’s defenses since becoming champion
Rod Salka, no? A good 90% or so of Frank Warren fighter's first title defences are against the someone outside the top 30
Didn't know the guy, but turns out he had a draw with Buster Douglas and had edged a still decent Joe Bugner. Not nearly as bad as some on the list here. That would have been a good addition to this list, but due to backlash when announced that fight was turned into a 10 round non titlefight instead.
Jack Callahan fighting Matthew Hilton for the IBF title. The combined record of Callahan`s previous opponents was 56-171.
Howard Clarke v Fernando Vargas. Obviously it was just to build Vargas' profile on a big card but Clarke was literally a journeyman!
