Best Heavyweights that never Won a Championship?

All the old time black HW greats...

Jackson
Langford
Jeanette
Wills
McVey

The guys like Ken Norton, Cleveland Williams, Tommy Farr, Jerry Quarry, Q Murray, Jimmy Young... often get mentioned.

 

Ibeauchi

 

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Don't forget the Tuaman either. He beat Ruiz, Maskaev who would go on to win a belt and destroyed Moorer who was a former champ.

 

ken norton was champion. he got robbed against Ali and was rightfully rewarded in 1978 by the WBC

What about billy conn. He fought great for 14 rounds against joe louis

Razor Ruddock would of been champ in another era

 

The important point about the great black heavies you mentioned ,as distinct from many of those others have named ,is that they never got the opportunity to challenge for the title .Lots of the others tried and failed.

 

Carl the truth Williams.

 

Williams was dead against anyone with a left hook.

 

Agreed. Some will disagree with me but I'd add George Chuvalo to this list. He got robbed against Terrell and fought a tough close fight with Floyd Patterson that was the fight of the year.

Razor Ruddock deserves to be mentioned as well. He would have given Tyson a tough fight in Edmonton 1988 -1989 when they were supposed to fight.

 

i agree with that 100% its sad they never even got a shot to prove they deserved it :bart

 

Elmer Ray deserves a mention.

 

Tua
Ruddock
Ibeubuchi
Golota

Did Ray Mercer ever hold a belt? I think he was WBO champion, I aint sure.

 

Yes, Mercer won the WBO title from Francesco Damiani in 1991. Ray was only the second man to hold that title since its founding.

 

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned Jerry Quarry. Man had one hell of a comp list, and did real well against them too.