Great Fighters Who Never Got Their Just Due

Dude do you argue just for the sake of arguing?

Read the original post again and tell me its not Paul Williams he was talking about.

 

Michael Spinks

One of the greatest light heavyweights of all time but if you ask a casual fan about him they'll probably say, "Aint he the dude that got blasted out by Iron MiKe"?

 

Light Heavy's.

 

Yup thats what I do ...like it said Great Fighters ,not current fights who never got their due.:thumbsup

 

You said?Last time i checked it wasnt you who started this thread.

 

Lloyd Honeyghan, almost no one remembers him these days.

Kid Chocolate doesn't get much love either.

And Kid Gavilan is just that guy who lost to Sugar Ray Robinson twice.

 

Cocoa Kid seems to be getting so underrated that he's being overrated by the people who know him. But how he's not in the hall of fame dumbfounds me.

When people talk about the great fighters from the '80's and early '90s in the 160 - 168 divisions, it seems like Steve Collins and Sumbu Kalambay always get forgotten. Both guys deserve to be remembered in the same breath as Benn, Collins, McClellan, Barkley, Jackson, Nunn and (to a lesser extent, since he's really ahead of the rest of the bunch) McCallum, but it seems like they're often forgotten from that discussion.

 

atsch

 

Jeff Clark. Gets a mention about once a year.

 

See you next year Jeff.

 

Emanuel burton/Augustus

 

Definately not enough love for the body snatcher on here.

 

he just reminded me of donald curry , honeyghan butted him en route to a stoppage win , curry also had trouble making weight , did i mention marlon starling already ?
and also : vinny pazienza , aaron davis , jose luis lopez , young peter jackson , joe jeannette , jack sharkey , william lawrence stribling , steve hamas , o'neil bell , and to some degree even hector camacho.

 

Billy Graham

 

Starling reminded me of Maurice Blocker ..then i remembered his fight against Honeyghan ..