Average/Poor Fighters Who Routinely Made For Great Fights?

Eddie the Animal Lopez was truth machine. He was the type of guy that would make his opponents find out a lot about themselves.

 

Rocky Gannon had two fun brawls against Domick Carter.

 

Anthony Stephens comes to mind.

 

Jesse James Hughes was better than average (probably would have gotten a title shot if not for his untimely death) but he was always in great scraps.

Also better than average (but never quite good enough) but was Yori Boy Campas ever in a bad fight?

 

Couple that come to mind:
- Michael Gomez was involved in quite a few British obscure classics.
- There was a lightweight in early 2000s named Antonio Ramirez, from Dominican Republic. More of a gate-keeper, but always good value for money. There's a short fight of his on YT that doesn't have many views, against Terrance Churchwell... Well worth a watch.
- Rogers Mtagwa was also reliable action-fighter - I think many people still remember his fight with Tomas Villa, as well as the effort against JuanMa.

 

Ryan Garcia tbh, very rough defense with the pissy shell but I'm always entertained by that left hook.

 

To be clear, Charley Scott was not average or poor, but his record was. Despite the fact that he once graced the top 10 welterweights and held wins over Ralph Dupas, Gaspar Ortega, Isaac Logart, Sugar Hart and Bob Fosmire, he ended up with a record of 35-32-0. That may appear average/poor and let's face it, it is. But doesn't tell the story of the era he came from, who he fought and how long he held on. I actually watched 3 of his fights that are out there against Dupas, Oertega and Jose Stable and man, let me tell ya, that sizzling left hook of his made for a barn-burner every time.

 

Freddie Roach.

 

Choi Tseveenpurev and Derry Matthews.

 

Clifford Etienne
Seth Mitchell
Derrick Jefferson
David Izon

 

Really? What were some entertaining fights He was inolved in? I don't recall much, other than some quick knock-outs and the rematch with Banks was one of the worst fights in HBO's history.

 

I think Izon won silver. As a pro though, he looked more like a guy who belonged at cruiser and fringe top ten seemed to be his ceiling at heavyweight.

 

He had a fun career while it lasted, whether he was giving out a beatdown or imploding. The Banks rematch obviously isn’t what I’m talking about.

Tehnically, his fights weren’t great but I was tuning in.