Who are some fighters who never held a title due to robberies.

Michael Brodie

 

Tyrone Everett and Dave Tiberi.

Joe Rivers, who had a double KD but the ref helped up his opponent Ad Walgast and counted him out!

"On July 4, 1912, he fought Ad Wolgast for the lightweight title. At the beginning of the thirteenth round, he and Wolgast both landed punches that sent the other down. Wolgast fell on top of Rivers, and referee Jack Welch helped Wolgast to his feet and began the count on Rivers. Welch declared Wolgast the winner by a technical knockout, in one of the most controversial decisions in the history of boxing"

@Greg Price99
Also from what Greg says Packey Mcfarland

 

On the grand scale, the first Louis-Walcott fight was seen as a fairly comprehensive win by most observers for Jersey Joe, not the judges alas, Louis was floored twice ,once in the first and again in the 4th, looked to have been out boxing Louis for long periods of the 15 rounder, but came up short when the numbers were totalled.
stay safe guys.

 

- I still think that Porky Medina beat over-the-hill James DeGale and shouldv'e been (very unlikely) champion.
- Troy Ross beat Yoan Pablo Hernandez pretty clearly in my eyes. He was also unlucky in his first title challange against Steve Cunningham, He was dominating early but suffered a cut from what looked like a thumb.

In Poland, there's a general feeling that Maciej Zegan is one such fighter, with his fight againss Artur Grigoryan being considered robbery - but here I didn't see that fight in a long time, so maybe it's just a local myth ).

 

Ken Norton
Daniel Gonzalez
Yaqui Lopez
Fred Qquendo
Earnie Shavers

 

The Chagaev fight was only for a fake belt with Oquendo. I never watched it.

 

Robin Reid has a good case.
Axel Schultz.

 

Where Earnie Shavers get robbed? Ali fight close but there has never been mention of it being so close there was even a doubt Ali won. As for Holmes, 11th round stoppage as Shavers staggered around the ring. That 7th doing knockdown Holmes got up from fair and square.

 

Armando Muniz in the first fight with Jose Napoles and Eder Gonzalez in the first fight with Juan Coggi.

 

Good subject matter, BTW. Makes one think. I wanted to jump at Eddie Davis from his first fight with Michael Spinks, but although I had him winning, many people here had Spinks winning a close one. With dispute like that it can’t be considered a robbery. Now the 2 judges who had it wide were clearly inept or unethical, as the rest of us had it closer.

 

Ali Funeka, another fighter that came to mind.
He had 3 title shots. In two of those (Nate Campbell fight and Guzman rematch), opponents came in significantly overweight - and He definitely won the first Guzman fight in Canada, which They ruled a draw.

 

Yeah, reportedly Welsh's home crowd demonstrated against the draw in their May 1910 contest, such was McFarland's clear superiority in what ended up as his only world title shot.

If the reports of his draw vs BJW being a robbery are accurate, there's a fighter even greater than McFarland who qualifies, Sam Langford.

 

Whilst Reid was probably robbed vs Ottke, he had already held a world title.

 

Were either of Alan Rudkin's shots against Harada and Rose considered robberies?