If it wasn't Brett Lally, could it have possibly been Bret Summers? Didn't he hold a quasi-title at one time?
Breland certainly deserves nomination for the nod. I remember USA building up "Cowboy" Don Shiver as a world class tough guy and rising fringe...
The worst title fight I ever saw was a Lupe Pintor Bantamweight defense against somebody named Jose Uziga. Pintor chased and chased and this Uziga...
Even better, Mr. Bill, he filed a lawsuit against ESPN Classic for televising his fight and ruining his privacy and personal life from the Joliet...
I think Jean Pierre Coopman is a great first choice. From Hauser's description of his training and sparring in the Ali bio, it makes you wonder...
I have a hard time not seeing the Douglas of that singular night being one of the greatest HW's of all time. Prime Tyson loses 98 out of 100 in...
I'd vote for Michael Dokes. He bludgeoned my childhood idol Roughhouse Fischer on the Holmes-Ali undercard and he looked like the best bet for...
I never liked Holmes growing up and always looked forward to his eventually getting knocked off. As I hit my adult years, I started to see Holmes...
I ran across former Welterweight challenger Scott Clark recently and asked him why he never fought again after the loss to Pipino Cuevas. He said...
I think you could make a case that Arroyo at his peak was an excellent fighter who could have given Mancini real problems. The issue with that...
Payne's reputation was that of a guy who waited too long to turn pro and that had already acquired adult habits as well. I remember it being...
Being that Cooney had all the fragility of someone abused by an alcoholic father and boxed out of a convoluted love/hate stance toward Cooney Sr,...
As a teenager buying up every magazine on the stands, I was bombarded with stories hyping Gato Gonzalez as the next great lightweight. I don't...
I boxed for a year and a half at the Indianapolis PAL Club under the late Champ Chaney. I had no talent. None. Just a teenage kid with a fantasy...
I'm asking for the most obscure title contenders in your memory, someone who was hardly known at the time of their title shot by even the...
