Modern fighters who "Dared to be Great" but don't get any credit!

Yuriorkis Gamboa- A career featherweight boxer who was having promotional trouble comes back from a year lay off to fight the WBO lightweight Champion Terrence Crawford. For 6 rounds he boxed the ears off of Crawford before being caught by the bigger man with power shots and eventually knocked out. After a year Gamboa comes back and is in a FOTY type match up but gets no credit for Daring to be Great.

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Adrien Broner- Moved up 2 weight classes from Lightweight to Welterweight to chase the greatness of his mentor Floyd Mayweather Jr.. Getting far on pure talent alone, Broner managed to squeak by Paulie Malignaggi and was set to take on his mandatory challenger Marcos Maidana. Maidana was on a KO streak that leveled tough competitors like Karass, Martinez, and Lopez. Broner was knocked down 2x and had a broken jaw and fought until the end in his best fight to date. Never gets credit for moving up 2 classes, becoming champion, and not taking a warm up fight or ducking his mando.

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Chris Algieri- Sometimes I say to myself, "Only if Chris Algieri was from some Soviet dump, he would be well respected by CST80."(jokes ,lol!). A career 140 fighter who dabble early in his career at a higher weight was nothing more than a ESPN FNF fighter who got his chance to fight another hype job named Ruslan Provodnikov. Coming off a great fight that he won with one ****ing eye (how good is that guys) he was summoned by the only *8 division champion in boxing, Manny Pacquiao for a super fight. Algieri moved to 147, was forced to drop his 140 title and was whisked off to China to fight a man that beat Margarito's eye socket out of place. Chris was outgunned from the start but he finished the fight on his feet after being dropped 6 times. Give that man some credit for taking on more top level fighters right after. (Khan, Spence)

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It could have been if it was not strictly a money fight from the start. Brook had never made a million dollars in a fight and he had been fighting for 10 years. He begged for that fight because he wanted to get money and GGG took it because he wanted what he thought would be an "easy" fight. I don't give Khan credit because he did the same thing with Alvarez.
Those guys were not trying to do anything beyond get paid. Be honest.

 

Throw up up here. I didn't know about that one.

 

Rod Salka- A career lightweight fighter who was really just minding his own business when Team Garcia called him up for a big time TV match against Danny "Swift" Garcia for the 140 WBC/WBA titles. Salka took the fight at a higher weight of 142 and the chance to dethrone a champ for nothing more than $200,000. Salka was outgunned but put up a brave effort regardless. Since then Salka has been on a 4 fight win streak and has a podcast in itunes about boxing.

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Gabe Rosado- A career 154 fighter got the chance to fight a then obscure KO artist named Gennady Golovkin. Instead of asking for a catchweight Gabe moved up to 160 and took on the challenge of fighting for a world title. Gabe was beaten bloody but never knocked down and he had to be stopped by his corner. Suffering 3 cuts over his eyes, Rosado never backed down and kept the pressure up until the stoppage by his corner. This fight is visually GGG's most shown fight because of the blood but people neglect the fact that GGG could not stop a career 154 pounder that was not afraid of him.

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Okay. Then arguably both fights were headed towards a robbery. Khan was outboxing Canelo and GGG was outboxing Brook but both fights reflect some shady scoring.

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even MiniMax knows it was gonna be a robbery.

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