Fighters who were good spoilers?

Jimmy Young latter career.

 

Believe it or not Marlon Starling at one stage fit the bill. After his first loss to Donald Curry some extremely dumb managers decided he was the "barometer" of the decision.

He whupped the promising Jose "The Threat" Baret's arse to start. Then he comfortably decisioned the highly regarded Tommy Ayers. Lastly he showed his class and experience to beat another superb prospect, Simon Brown, by split decision. Starling beat him clearly tho.

 

Beat an upcoming Lupe Aquino too around about that time in one of his better performances.

 

There were a few guys in the black dynamite era, who ocasionaly frustrated or beat much more highly regarded fighters, e.g Battling Jim Johnson, Big Bill Tate.

 

There's yet another.

 

Hard 2 believe they use those (unknown obscure) names out of all d fighters that Starling beat .

Anyway , back 2d topic :

Chris Byrd
Montell Griffin
some would say Herol Graham so i post it just 2 precede them . He wasn't that good against Jackson or Kalambay out of all ppl .
He actually got less than he deserved when he got KOd by Jackson after thumbing him .
So Graham is not a part of my authentic reply .
Partially authentic , obviously : Pernell Whitaker .
Back 2 my authentic reply :
Sanderline Williams , in a way .

 

Well it's a thread about spoiling. Starling was hardly spoiling later on when kicking butt left right and center.

If those names are obscure to you then you simply don't know the era. I say that as nicely as i can. Can't misbehave, it's been ages

 

of course Simon Brown's name is not obscure 2 me , and i did stumble upon Aquino's name a few time in d past , but d rest were Xtremely obscure . Aquino's name just obscure depite i saw and remember it (d name) .

 

Ok, you didn't live the era. That's fair. Just remember, you learnt something today! Who would have known Starling was seen as a potential stepping stone at one time before he won the title. If they knew better at the time he would have been the most avoided contender in the division. Jebus.

 

It is another example 2 d idiocy of ppl who think that losing a decision even without getting KDd means anything .

It shows u that it means nothing .

d way i c it , Starling twice lasting d distance with respect against a dominant , skilled , accurate and well hitting champion as Curry , only soliddifies his legacy regardless of which way d judges crapped d points .

 

Ralph 'tiger' Jones

Could look like crap one night and beat a contender the next

 

Jesse Fergusun
Holly Mims
Angel Garcia

and several times in his career, Jerry Quarry. Certain points where he was brought in when a fighter needed that last push (in other words a name fighter on his record) for the title shot and Quarry showed what he still had in the tank (Mac Foster, Jack Bodell, Ron Lyle, Earnie Shavers, Buster Mathis).

 

In the first bout Starling clowned and f'd about a bit. Lesson learned. By the time they fought again Curry was evolving into one helluva fighter. The rematch in hindsight was possibly his coming out party. Nobody realised just how good he was yet. In hindsight i have to say it was a superb effort from Starling, little wonder he ruled the division when Curry was gone. Again in hindsight he was the obvious heir apparent.

Remember too this was an era when a single loss was often seen as a crushing setback.

 

Jesse Burnett

Edwin Viruet

Adolfo Viruet

Vilomar Fernandez