Past Prime Valdes, KOing a top 10 fighter with his tough infighting. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucXgHJ0s8qg[/ame] Ruddock's most famous knockout. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sanVWI-De7U&feature=related[/ame] 2 tough heavy hitters.
Every boxer on your list had their moment till they padded the record of another up-‘n-comer, j, but Tommy “Hurricane” Jackson was SOME PIECE-A-WORK -- an Area-52 reject: without a brain, pulse, or central nervous system. “Wanna shoot rats?" were his only words.
Lee Q Murray is one fighter on the list of who there is no film. He vied with Jimmy Bivins for control of the heavyweight division while Joe Louis was in the army and he is one of those heavyweights that contemporary gym rats pick over many subsequent champions, as with George Godfrey and Cleavland Williams. In all he fought Bivins five times, winning two of the encounters. He is described by contemporaries as being as fast and powerfull as Joe Louis but a bit less polished in his punching. If there is a dark horse in the heavyweight division at that time who could have upset Louis then it is probably him.
How about 40/50 fighters at 147 an 160: Billy Graham Gil Turner Johnny Bratton Johnny Sexton Bobby Dykes Tony DeMarco Tommy Bell Gene Burton at few words about Carmen Basilio compare them to more modern fighters in style and in terms of greatness
The 80's babies (Thomas, Page, Witherspoon, Coetzee, etc) were all very skilled and would, on their best nights, give many Heavyweights in history a run for their money. Except Ali of the Williams fight.