Bro-Lite

I was watching a documentary the other day on Bobby Charlton - made after he recently passed - and I was dwelling on the fact that there was 2 world class brothers in Bobby and Jack and the family lineage which would produce that from the same household. In boxing we had the same. An innate pedigree - or maybe just world class training - produced the Canizales brothers, the Currys, the Finnegans, the Sandovals, et al. But what about those siblings who didn't make it? Man, that had to have been rough seeing your bro take off while you were treading water looking at a career as a journeyman or a clubfighter.

Offhand, I was thinking of...

Muhammad and Rahman Ali
Henry and Jim Cooper
Manny and Bobby Pacquiao
Ben and Ernie Villaflor

How many more can you guys think of?

 

True. He did fight for a world title which should probably exclude him from a list of journeyman brothers, but Myron certainly lacked the resiliency one would need to make it to the top.

 

Good ones. I also just thought of Jerry and Mike Quarry's brother Bobby and Gene and Don Fullmer's brother Jay.

 

Jack, this is a bit of a stretch. It's hard to place someone in this category who fought for the world title twice. And besides beating Duran and a young Barkley, as you mentioned, Sims also beat Tony Chiaverini, Doug DeWitt, John Collins and drew with Murray Sutherland. So Sims was world class. I was thinking something more in the lines of the Zivic brothers. Eddie, Pete and Jack simply had journeyman careers in comparison to Fritzie, although Pete and Jack were fine amateurs. But you're on the right track, Jack, so hit me again.

 

This is exactly what I was talking about. The brother that just couldn't make it up that next rung into contendership. I also thought of...

Carmen and Joey Basilio
Sugar Ray and Roger Leonard
Randy and Dick's brother Jackie Turpin
Larry and Mark Holmes

 

I don't know. Boxrec has his record as 40-28-4. I scoured his record and his greatest wins in 72 fights was a win over Lew Tendler and Tommy Milligan. And they were good wins, but then he lost to both in rematches and that seemed to be about it for him. He fought a number more of world class fighters but lost. Perhaps he was being touted as a hot prospect at one time. I could see that, but nothing beyond gate-keeping.