Cherry Picking Gone Wrong

Wlad vs Purity, Sanders and Brewster.

 

Morrison v Bent.

 

Angel Espada v Pipino Cuevas I
Alfonso Zamora v Jorge Lujan

 

Ali vs Spinks

 

Povetkin—Whyte
Price—Thompson

 

Barry Mc Guigan vs Steve Cruz, 1986.

 

Wilder vs Fury
even though both are frauds

 

What?

 

AjJ and Ruiz to some degree- I remember people calling Andy a sacrificial lamb before the fight.

 

Ironic that 7 years later the next dominant heavyweight champion after Ali, Larry Holmes, needing one more victory to equal Rocky Marciano’s 49-0 record, would also come unstuck against another cherry picked Spinks.

 

He was a replacement opponent, so calling him a cherrypick is pretty unfair.

 

Andy Ruiz was the Ingo of modern times. In 1959, Ingemar Johansson was touted as a champion that would reign for a long time after knocking out then champion Floyd Patterson. But on June 20 1960 all that changed with one left hook. Just like Andy Ruiz was the victor in some of these hypothetical matches, all that changed in the rematch with Anthony Joshua too.

 

To be fair to the McGuigan team, Cruz was a late sub. But also Barry suggests he did not want to fight, and his row with Eastwood was causing huge problems behind the scenes.

As for the thread:

Two on one bill come straight to mind, the night Terry Lawless saw both his top prospects lose to American 'journeymen':

Bruno/Bonecrusher and Mark Kaylor/Buster Drayton

 

Thanks for the info my friend, great post.