Best fighters p4p never to win a world title

Tommy thought so too! (Who are we to argue with him?)

 

Bep van Klaveren
Rudy Koopmans
Herol Graham....

 

bennie briscoe and hamsho were very solid middleweights, i dont think they were world champs.

 

Howard Davis Jr.

 

I'd like to add
George Benton
Stanly Kitten Hayword
Gypsy Joe Harris
Tyrone Everette
Harold Weston jr.
Laszlo Papp

 

Didn't Mike win the vacant middleweight title after Ketchels death?

 

No. He did stake a claim to it, but Billy Papke was the primary claimant by virtue of having been the last boxer to dethrone Ketchel in the ring. Mike is not considered to have ever been a linear MW champion.

 

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Yaqui Lopez comes to mind.

 

Wee Willie Davies
Al Gainer
Tiger Jack Fox
Dave Shade
Aaron "Tiger" Wade
Ike Weir (though many considered him the featherweight champion in the 1880s)

 

I actually thought James Shuler could have been very good. Had he lived he might have recovered from the Hearns knockout and gone on to be a champion.

 

I felt the same way about Andre Prophet. The one fight I saw him in he looked awesome. Looked like a Sandy Saddler, hit like Bob Foster.

 

How come no love for McFarland? (Other than the TS.)

1. Sam Langford
2. Packey McFarland
3. Charley Burley

 

Young Griffo. Recognised as one of the elite of his era...never officially recognised as a world champ... and certainly dished out plenty to many respected champions

 

for me too Lloyd Marshall is boss!

and a British five...

Len Johnson
Len Harvey
Jock McAvoy
Bert Gilroy
Ernie Roderick