Decent forgotten world champs of the last 20 years

Agreed. Instead of actually addressing the events that I mentioned, you know, the ones that actually happened, let's just blow them off and 'leave them there'.

 

I'm throwing this man in, Steve Robinson, lost his title to Naz 20 years and 11 months ago. I say it's 20 years ago so it just about qualifies.

Robinson had just quit his warehouse job to train full time, he had a professional record of 13-9-1 and was given a phone call around 60 hours before the first bell to be offered a chance to fight for the vacant WBO Featherweight Title against John Davidson. Robinson's highest purse before this title shot was around £3000 but was offered a career high purse of £20,000 for fighting Davidson.

Robinson was the opponent, the underdog and it was a real Cinderella story, it was suppose to Davidsons night in his own backyard but Robinson won and went on to make 7 defences of the world title beating some good opponents in the process, the likes of Freddy Cruz, Duke McKenzie, Colin McMillan, Paul Hodkinson and then Robinson ran in to a young, hungry and excellent Naz.

Robinson continued to box after losing to Naz for around another 6 years, winning and defending the WBO Inter-Continental Featherweight title and also winning and defending the EBU (European Title) before he had a seriously bad run at the end losing 6 on the spin and then retiring.

But for those couple of years Robinson was a very capable and solid world champion but barely gets a mention.

 

Well, at least you admit that you simply refuse to address the facts, i.e., all of the controversies and nonsense that somehow went in Ruiz' direction. I guess Ruiz was not only 'good', but pretty damn lucky as well.

 

JMW Champ Julio Cesar Vasquez dropped Winky so many times it changed his style forever into the defensive oriented one we came to know.

 

Philip Holiday, Zsolt Erdei, Cristian Mijares, William Joppy all come to mind

 

Dariusz Michalczewski.

 

Pongsaklek Wongjongkam - should've been at the top end of everyone's P4P list in the 2000's, but due to being based in a lower weight division and not fighting often in the USA gets massively overlooked.

Ricardo Lopez - undefeated, by every objective measure the most successful and dominant champion of his era, suffered due to fighting at flyweight

Dariusz Mickelczewski - people forget this guy was the lineal light-heavyweight champion during Jones's era.

Mike McCallum - an absolutely brutal body puncher, hugely overlooked, was avoided regularly.

Harry Simon - A crazy fighter, could've been a real great had he been promoted better, beat a young, prime Winky Wright

Clinton Woods - massive heart, iron chin, been in loads of tough fights, far more willing to face top-tier opponents than his UK contemporaries, even if he did end up losing many of those fights.

Cory Spinks - really talented fighter, never realised his full potential

Robin Reid - got robbed against Joe Calzaghe and Sven Ottke, another highly talented fighter who didn't get his due

Kelly Pavlik - exciting hard-hitting middleweight with a good solid resume

Carl Thompson - gave David Haye his first real beating aged 40, really exciting fighter

Roman Karmazin - hard as nails Russian with a solid resume at middleweight

EDIT

Eder Jofre - awesome Braziliam lightweight, one of the p4p hardest hitters who ever lived, barely known outside of Brazil but it's quite right that the call him the "Brazilian Duran"

 

Sven Ottke

 

Get the **** out of town

 

34-0 isn,t decent??????????

 

34-0 is a number.

Sven Ottke was a con-artist.

He got embarassed and outclassed by a past-prime Robin Reid in the most obvious display of a fixed fight I have ever seen. He's a disgrace to the sport of boxing.