How popular was RJJ in the 90's?

Thornton was ranked #1 by everyone. He was a quality fighter in very good form since 1990, out-boxing Tiberi and Sosa and gave Toney a very good fight. He also had a dangerous right hand!

Rocchigiani was IBF champ, beating Hamsho in a round! Chris Reid, prime Malinga - he was blatantly robbed against Maske and Michalczewski in massive fights. He was huge in Germany.

Lindell only lost the IBF title to Van Horn via bodyshot/exhaustion KO while winning the fight, despite Van Horn out-working him.

Wharton was very dangeous, giving Benn hell after freezing for 4-5 rounds, KDing Benn and leaving him hospitalized - Wharton used to left hook men out of the ring every fight in the early 90s. Quadruple left hooks were impressive. Took out the spoiler Italians (former/future WBC holders) after Eubank, though I thought Eubank finished him as a fighter.

 

Your clearly losing the plot here.
Arum would put Toney in the ring with the following fighters:
Nunn, Reggie Johnson, McCallum I, McCallum II and Roy Jones - but he was scared to put him the ring with Chris Eubank?

 

Eubank is known for his integrity.

 

According to Bob himself, yes.

 

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He was a journeyman who never beat an opponent above B level

Like I said before he didn't beat anyone worth mentioning at smw and his claim to fame was when he beat a Michael Nunn who seemed more concerned with clowning than boxing.

He was at the end of his career going 1-3 in his last 4 fights.

The fact remains that he never beat anyone worth mentioning. Almost doesnt count.

 

Tell that to Barry Hearn, who Eubank dropped after Waren and King refused to work with Hearn.

 

Bob never said that - and you are going to have to do a lot better than a quote from a google message board.

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=28919&more=1

So here your own boy is contradicting you and as I pointed out to you, Nunn was a Don King fighter when Eubank fought Holmes

So it looks like I wonarty​

 

I'm not going to waste my time with a borderline ******. I just hope you get the help you need.

 

:****off:desk ****** alert :smh

 

Dam you Arum so he denied us Toney Eubank ..Not surprised ..

 

Career never took off the way it shuold have...KNOWN BUT NOT A HOUSEHOLD NAME OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

 

Once he got to the top he refused to make proper fights. He was happy to fight his mandatories, claiming that he would get stripped if he didn't fight this police officer, or that post man etc.

If you think some of Pac's or Money's fights are bad go look at some of his defences when he was meant to be P4P#1.

 

He was extremely popular for a non-HW. He was one of maybe five household names of boxers weighing less than 200 lbs, who casuals and non-boxing fans would be aware of.

 

Nah. He's become less of one now in the intervening decade and probably forgotten by the public at large...but twelve years ago I bet even housewives, nursing home occupants, and coal miners who didn't follow the sport at all had heard the name RJJ. (along with DLH, Tyson, Lewis, Holyfield, and a couple of others).

 

You don't get sponsership by Jordan without being well known !