Basic non-contenders that packed a wallop

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  1. jowcol

    jowcol Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Was just thinking about fighters that, basically, had no Champion caliber tools for a number of reasons. I might start by mentioning a few that come to mind but many superior minds to mine might come up with a plethora of others:
    Sidebar; could we restrict comments to pre-1990's fighters?
    Cyclone Hart: we all know how numbing that big LH was; when he fought him early in his career Hagler said he didn't know where he was!
    Mike DeJohn: I believe Liston said no one had ever hit him harder!
    Kosie Smith: I've never seen Galindez so stiff and frozen solid after that bomb he took!
    Two-ton Tony G.: If it landed, you were either out or praying for the bell!
    Wife working late; imbibing on some Merlot and listening to "Wheels of Fire".
    Superior minds weigh in please :)
     
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    Dwight Hawkins, thunderous lower weight puncher
     
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  3. jowcol

    jowcol Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Thanks Flea! I'd forgotten about some of the lower weight 'crackers'!
     
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    Norman Goins, Tony Baltazar.
     
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  5. Seamus

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    Lionel Butler
     
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  6. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    Who Bowe beat in his pro debut.. Steered away from hitters thou.. lols
     
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  7. Seamus

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    Bad scouting. Butler could punch like the Dickens. As I have recounted, Lamon Brewster still claims the hardest he was hit was at the end of Butler's left hook.
     
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  9. joebeadg

    joebeadg Well-Known Member Full Member

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    jowcol. wheels of fire, I know u r cool now! Jack Bruce is my hero!!! How bout Chris Calvin
     
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    Jackstraw Mercy for me, justice for thee! Full Member

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    Thread specifically asked for pre-90s examples.
     
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