Successful careers that didnt win world titles

how about andre ward?
beat all his main contenders in 2 years?

 

Sorry, I meant British fighters. I consider Ward to be slightly better.

 

:good

 

Interesting thread!

This is a little biased opinion for sure and there is TONS OF BETTER examples but anyway I will share this opinion about my favourite fighter I still believe our finnish own Amin Asikainen was a little unlucky with the way his career turned around. He was so close to get his shot against Sturm and I still believe that prime Asikainen would have Castillejo'd Sturm.

Sylvester rematch imo was a last time that we saw prime Asikainen. Still this fight pisses me off cause Asikainen was dominating Sylvester with ease. He was looking so good that night, almost masterful. But then everything turned around when Sylvester landed a hard neckpunch and Asikainen never recovered. Never same again. :-( Sylvester won the world title later and when that is said: I honestly believe prime Asikainen is a way better fighter than Sebastian.


Asikainen wasn't great but he was good enough to do better than he did.

 

take heart knowing that the boxing world outside Germany will not remember sturm or sylvester

 

langford and burley are the obvious choices here but more recently yaqui lopez deserves to be mentioned.

 

Well Sturm is still a guy who beat DLH and had a long (but poor) reign as a champion. Average boxing fan will remember Felix Sturm and that's a fact.

Sylvester is a different thing I agree. Nothing but a paper champ with couple of poor defences.

 

sturm was also a paper champ
I agree sturm beat Oscar at his first fight at middleweight. but that looks more 'glossy' than it really was because Oscar had no business fighting there

 

Golota

 

Throw in James Scott as well from that era. 175 was stacked in the late 70s and early 80s.

 

Oba Carr was a very good fighter in an era that had great welterwweights...De La Hoya, Mosley, Quartey, Trinidad....
Tua is also a good choice....he fought 6 former(Moorer), futur(Ruiz,Byrd,Rahman,Maskaev) or present(Lewis) world champion and he beat 4 of them

 

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Bennie Briscoe, Kid Tunero, Florentino Fernandez, Hurricane Carter, Martillo Roldan, Renaldo Snipes, Andy Ganigan

 

Drew you are a brilliant man . . . you must be Scotian. Said almost exactly what I was thinking. One fighter I did not consider was Funeka . . . because he was so recent but it is a good call:good

 

Yaqui :good and if you don't know ask somebody.