Ten greatest fighters never to win a world title

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  1. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    10 - Young Stribling
    09 - Peter Jackson
    08 - Jack Blackburn
    07 - Lloyd Marshall
    06 - Harry Wills
    05 - Holman Williams
    04 - Packey McFarland
    03 - Jimmy Bivins
    02 - Charley Burley
    01 - Sam Langford


    You got a list?

    Do you think that Wills should be above Marshall?

    Would you shuffle the order?

    Honourable mentions - Kid Norfolk and Eddie Booker.
     
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  2. rydersonthestorm

    rydersonthestorm Boxing Addict Full Member

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    i think herol graham should be up and around there.
     
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  3. McGrain

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    Who would you remove to insert him?
     
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  4. rydersonthestorm

    rydersonthestorm Boxing Addict Full Member

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    out of the guys mentioned o would lose jackson, i do find it hard to judge alot of the very old guys as we have no real evidence of there talents.
     
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  5. klompton

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    Stribling should not be on there and Mike Gibbons should.
     
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  6. stonerose

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    i assume you've left scott welch out by mistake mcgrain ?
     
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  7. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Boxrec has him winning 257 fights and losing only 15.

    He holds wins over Maxie Rosenbloom, Battling Levinsky, Jimmy Delaney, Tommy Loughran, Mike McTigue, some of them more than once.

    You don't like his connections? You think these wins weren't on the up and up?
     
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  8. Unforgiven

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    Good list, mcG

    I think I'd have Joe Jeanette in my top 10.
     
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  9. Ted Spoon

    Ted Spoon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Jim Driscoll cannot be forgotten here.
     
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  10. DINAMITA

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    Audley Harrison.
     
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  11. mcvey

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    Stribling's record is more padded than my beer belly he dosn't belong in the company of.
    Langford
    Jackson
    Jeanette
    Wills
    Burley
    Williams
    Petrolle
    Driscoll
    Marshall
    Macfarland
    Choynsky
    Tendler
    Mcvey etc.
     
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  12. McGrain

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    That's as may be, but he still has multipe wins over true ATG fighters.
     
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  13. bladerunner

    bladerunner El Intocable Full Member

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    pretty good list,i just want to mention Bennie Briscoe altough he probably doesnt belong on that list but hes one of my all time favs and if he was at his prime today would destroy todays middleweights.
     
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  14. mcvey

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    Stribling's wins over great fighters are ,2 over Rosenbloom,very creditable,2over Loughran.one in which he thumbed Loughran,and a loss to Loughran.One win over Levinsky ,who was 35 and on the slide,and two wins over Slattery,again very creditable though he was 10lbs heavier than Slattery in one fight.One win over a 32 year old Mctigue ,and one fixed fight that had the decision reversed.Stribling imo ,was very good but not great.
     
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  15. ripcity

    ripcity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Lew Tendler
    Joe Choinsky
     
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