Guys who looked tough and got big fights... just to lose

Hide is a good pick.A really poor man's terry norris.

His speed, power and offensive skills looked real nice against cans, then every time he fought a good fighter he was reamed.Hilariously bad chin and mentality.

 

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Yuri boy campas got a bunch of big fights. Only stand out win IMO was against R. marquez. Lost to delahoya,Daniel santos,"ferocious"vargas, trinidad.
was gifted title shot against delahoya i believe after losing to the boricua, santos.

 

Gerry Cooney

 

Smokin Bert Cooper.. once trained by Joe Fraizer and he even resembled him a little (and Tyson) but he was far from great. He had legit power but he got the crap beat out of him by Reggie Gross, The Truth, Nate Miller, Foreman, Bowe, Foreman, Moorer, Corrie Sanders, Larry Donald, and others. He did manage to beat Henry Tillman, Tyrone Booze, Willie de Wit, Orlin Norris, Joe Hipp, Cecil Coffee, Joe Savage, and Richie Mellito. He was exciting even in his losses.[/quote]

Came very close to stopping Holyfield....and would have been world champion.

 

Tony Tucker apart from the Buster Douglas fight, which really wasn't a big scalp at that point since Douglas was out of shape and wasn't highly regarded at the time.