Ali's Worse Opponent After Exile?

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  1. Fergy

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    From Jerry Quarry right thru to Berbick, who was the worst?
    Can Richard Dunn be the chosen one???
     
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  2. George Crowcroft

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    Coop-man or Dunn were both pretty damn tragic.
     
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  3. scartissue

    scartissue Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Coopman was my immediate pick.
     
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  4. Fergy

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    Lol yes it's a close run thing between Dunn and dusted and the lion of floundering!
     
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  5. Dubblechin

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    1. Jean-Pierre Coopman
    2. Rudi Lubbers
    3. Richard Dunn
    4. Juergen Blin
    5. Alfredo Evangelista

    Lubbers is only #2 because he actually beat Coopman. But he was really bad.

    You could also make a case for Blin being worse than Dunn. Dunn wasn't the worst, though. Top Four Worst.
     
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  6. Bokaj

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    Good list. Maybe Bob Foster could squeeze in.
     
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  7. Fergy

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    I know what your saying but It's that feeling of putting an ATG in a crap list lol. But he wasn't anything good at all really up north so suppose he can be fitted in.
    And even Michael Moorer did a lot better at the higher weight.
     
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    I'd forgotten all about Lubbers!
    Don't know how with that shining bright light of a career..
     
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  9. Bokaj

    Bokaj Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    And Wepner should be there. He was tough but horribly lacking in skill.
     
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  10. Richard M Murrieta

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    I would have to say, Rudi Lubbers, Jean Pierre Coopman, Richard Dunn, and Alfredo Evangelista.
     
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  11. Richard M Murrieta

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    Bob's claim to fame was that he became the first man to cut Muhammad Ali, but Foster went down 8 times.
     
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  12. LoadedGlove

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    Coopmans
    Lubbers
    Blin
    Dunn
    Evangelista

    It's not a great advert for European Heavyweights in the 70's is it ?
     
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  13. Fergy

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    Lol. It's not is it? Strange how thing s have changed around for the heavyweight s now, with European s dominating for a long stretch and US heavy s really struggling.
     
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  14. Richard M Murrieta

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    Look at the European heavyweight picture dating back to the 1950's and 1960's. You had Henry Cooper, Joe Bygraves, Brian London, Karl Mildenberger, George Chuvalo, Ingemar Johansson and Robert Cleroux.
     
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  15. Saintpat

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    Alfredo (The Tomato) Evangelista is the best of that lot by a far shot just on his haircut alone.

    You could cast him as Johnny Ringo in a spaghetti western and no one would blink.
     
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