Most famous heavyweight journeymen / fringe contenders?

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  1. cross_trainer

    cross_trainer Liston was good, but no "Tire Iron" Jones Full Member

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    Not the best journeymen / fringe contenders, but the ones with the most name recognition.

    Butterbean and Wepner obviously qualify. Who else?
     
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    BitPlayerVesti Boxing Drunkie Full Member

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    Vitali Klitschko ;)
     
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  4. ironchamp

    ironchamp Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Tony Galento.
     
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    Tony Galento and Randall Tex Cobb
     
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  6. McGrain

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    Cobb's an okay shout, but Galento was ranked top five including a spell as the #1 heavyweight contender in the world.

    But it probably depends where you are from. And what your criteria are, because this term Journeyman has started a lot of arguments on the forum.

    Gary Mason was reasonably famous when I was a kid. Johnny Prescott was really famous though, in the sixties. Yeah, i'll go for John Prescott.
     
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  7. catchwtboxing

    catchwtboxing Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    To name a few
     
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  8. cross_trainer

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    Seamus's bête noire, Ed Dunkhorst, probably deserves a mention.
     
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  10. Cecil

    Cecil Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Ah, Johnny Prescott. I remember his two wars with Billy Walker.
     
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