Pete Rademacher, worst management ever?

One could make the argument that getting your fighter a title shot as a debutant makes you an amazing manager.

 

Do some research on prior threads and get the real story on this fight. Rademacher was his own manager. He was a 28-year-old mature man with a college education who found the investors who put up all the money for the fight. He was realizing the dream of his lifetime. As they say, it could only happen in America!

 

Nothing compares to LaBarba's first 11 fights consisting of Jimmy McLarnin x3, Newsboy Brown and Frankie Genaro. The results are just as bizarre, with him utterly thrashing Genaro in one sided fashion, arguably wining the draw against Brown, and always giving McLarnin all he could handle despite never winning.

 

Jimmy Ellis - was thrown in with Hurricane Carter, Georgie Benton, Henry Hank, Don Fullmer, Holly Mims (twice), Rory Calhoun, Wilfie Greaves and Johnny Morris. And that was within his first 20 fights. Talk about being thrown in at the deep end of the pool.

Nipper Pat Daly - was turned pro by his wonderful manager Professor Andrew Newton before his 10th birthday and retired before his 18th birthday with 118 bouts under his belt. His wonderful manager kept putting the kid in with hard fight after hard fight with incredible rapidity until he was completely burned out. Newton justified this by saying, "The lad thrives on hard work." What a guy!

 

Maskaev is my usual pick for worst managed. Debuted against a 20-0 bronze medalist Miroshnichenko, 6th fight against Kulpin who had a close fight with Johnny Nelson and beat Julius Francis in his next fight, 7th fight against Oliver McCall, 12th fight against David Tua. Before 20 fights he had also fought Rahman, Alex Stewart, NZ HW champ Tasefa (who later fought Valuev). Apparently he had a chunk of missing fights from his early career that were disqualified due to being exhibitions or amateur in nature, but still a ridiculous strength of opposition for a new pro--in a sport where people typically don't face live opponents until 20-25 fights in, even later now.

 

I don't think so.
He got paid. Most fighters never get to fight for the heavyweight championship, especially when there was only one to fight for. And he made history by doing it in his first fight.

 

Maskaev is the worst HW champ of the 21st century IMHO. Competition aside his team got him a belt he defended. I don't consider it a real belt but most people do. With the new 0 culture its all about picking the opponents that garner the most respect for the smallest risk and Maskaevs team won the game.

And in the 50s it was very very difficult to get title shots at HW. Even by 1 belt era standards.

 

Not only did he get paid; he also dropped Patterson. I can think of plenty of Gold medalists who could’ve beaten Patterson in their pro debut.

 

If he turned pro at 10, who did he fight? Surely they wouldn't have put him in the ring with a grown man and I would guess there weren't many 10 year old pros to match him with.

 

He was a successful businessman who died at 91. He did a lot better than Quarry and Chuvalo.

 

It's obvious that a "career" wasn't his priority, at his age he was looking to grab some cash and move on. Everyone isn't interested in progressing toward a legacy.