Fighters who never won a world title but you can see them being champions if they had fought today

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  1. dcarlota

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    Razor Ruddock too
     
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    Charley Burley would clean out today's 147lbs division
     
    Blaxx, May 14, 2025
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    He’d work his way up from 130lbs to 155lbs and if the business stars aligned he’d become undisputed in several divisions.
     
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    Tony Sibson too. The Sibson who absolutely destroyed Minter, outboxed Dwight Davison would have been too much for anyone who is not named Hagler who put on arguably he greatest punch perfect performance of his career.

    Graham too, so unlucky to face a peak McCallum and a terrific punch from Julian Jackson who was moments away from being stopped.
     
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    Yes mate, definitely
    In this day of multiple belts, they'd definitely have won something.
     
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    Yaqui Lopez
     
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  8. Clinton

    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    The winner!!!!
     
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    Clinton Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Great, great thread, Lads. Kudos to all of you!
     
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    First response gets it. Seriously, anyone in boxing history in the top 5ish could easily be a 'world champ' with all the belts. Throw in having more than the original 8 weight classes, and if you were even sniffing top ten in the lower weights, you'd probably have been able to catch a title at some point.
     
    Sailor Joe, May 15, 2025
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    thistle Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Boxing is a Business and not all get to play Big Business, but yes, Loads & loads, Hundreds of great fighters over the 150 year history.
     
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    Kongtoranee Payakaroon in Super Flyweight & Masayoshi Nakatani Lightweight & Kwang Sun Kim in Light Flyweight & Palangpol CP Freshmart in Light Flyweight & Satanmuanglek CP Freshmart in Light Flyweight & Chana Porpaoin in Minimumweight & Songkram Porpaoin in Minimumweight & Jonathan Javier Rodriguez in Super Flyweight (I'm pretty sure he is better than Willibaldo Garcia and Phumelela Cafu) & Julian Yedras in Minimumweight.
     
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    And Arturo Godoy and Mauro Mina and Pedro Montanez and Ruben Castillo.

    They'd won titles and been hall of famers and Montanez, who is, would have been a star in the Manny Pacquiao stratosphere.
     
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    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    well, Conn did win a title...at LH.

    Juan Carazo and Alberto Mercado
     
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    MaccaveliMacc Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Kilrain was actually a National Police Gazette heavyweight champion before facing Sullivan. He was the claimant, so we can consider him a champion just like alphabet belt holders of this day.
     
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