I really liked Mike Weaver from the Holmes fight to the Dokes II fight (which I had him winning by three points) to the crushing ko of Williams. I rooted for him quite a bit in the 80s. He was a bit like a Rocky story.
Nope, big fan too! One reason He might not fit this topic is He was very good in my opinion, but obviously there are levels so all depends on the point of comparision. I always thought that He was better defensive fihgter than Ike Quartey - and if Ike had defensive skills of Clottey, in addition to his offensive potential - He'd be an all-time-great.
Shannan Taylor and Lester Ellis from Australia. Both decent but not quite top class. Both all action fighters and good fun. Ellis won a few world titles for second tier organisations. I think Taylor won something second rate as well.
Deontay Wilder! Massive power but has the most atrocious skill set I've ever seen. Next I'd say James Page.
Richard Dunn wasn’t a great talent, but was a favourite of mine. He was from near my home town in Northern England and I always supported him whom ever he fought. The pinnacle of his career was his world title fight with Ali. There was little me in one corner cheering on the local hero, and in the other corner there were my treacherous parents supporting the champion. Of course we all know the result…Dunn just wasn’t in Ali’s league at all. He got the title shot after beating a load of 2nd rate fighters, but Richard was never ever going to trouble Ali. In Dunn’s next fight he got KO’d by that well known hard hitting slugger Joe Bugner (sarcasm) in one round…but he was still my hero, regardless of that beating. Edit: I’ve just been informed that Dunn was the last fighter that Ali ever stopped/KO’d. So that’s a claim to fame for Richard right there!
Sugar Gibiliru, & Jamie McKeever. Good solid local fighters who always gave their all and, against the odds, both become British champs (briefly). Sugar was a staple on Monday Night boxing back in the early 90s and I knew Jamie, who had a couple of great scraps with Tony Mulholland at the Everton Park Centre.
John Simpson. Scottish, 130lbs, nay luck. Choi Tseveenpurev. Mongolian, 126-135lbs, lots of fun, sort of adopted by the British, last time that's happened really. In Jin Chi. Korean. 126lbs. Better than these other two but still lost who he was supposed to lose to. This whole era of Sky Sports super-feather types was absolutely excellent fun. Derry Matthews, all those guys, it was great fun, I didn't like them all (Derry Matthews) but there were cool rivalries and weird little main events televised that were worth seeing - it's kind of been repeated recently with some other fighters that are an answer to this question, Ted Cheeseman, Sam Eggington, Scott Fitzgerald, Try Williamson.
Yes I was meaning more journeyman type fighters but still intersting to hear people's interpretations.
Audley Harrison springs to mind. Anything could happen with that guy, one moment he could be dominating, the next he could have been spectacularly knocked out. Amir Khan and David Price were like that as well, talented fighters who ultimately had no chins. Made for entertaining fights.
Really enjoyed watching him fight also. Excellent technician, in a mold of Kazuto Ioka and such. Very skillful and smart, just lacked on the physical side.
I've always thought Ted Cheeseman sounds like a middle-aged perv in a 1970s saucy British comedy- Confessions of a Light Middleweight.