The Three Worst Heavyweight Title Challengers?

Rademacher is the obvious choice. After that, Jean-Pierre Coopman or Terry Daniels. The best fighter Daniels beat for a shot at the crown was probably a washed-up Manual Ramos. The best fighter Coopman beat? A washed-up Terry Daniels.


Spinks at least beat a fighter around the Top 10 in Righetti, irrespective of how little fights he had. Another that springs to mind being hugely undeserving of a shot is Freddie Beshore.

 

John (Jack) Finnegan
Jewey Smith
Pete Rademacher

 

Jack Roper
Al McCoy
Dave Zygliewicz

 

Steffen Tangsted
J p Coopmans
don cockell

 

Jem Roche
Jack Palmer
Richard Dunn

 

Rahman vs klitcko

 

Cleveland Williams
Gerrie Cooney
Terry Daniels (I may replace him later with someone else)

 

Really? Cooney was 25-0, & had stoppage wins over Shot Norton, Shot Lyle & Shot Young.

 

His stoppage over Shot Norton was not really a legitimate stoppage as he hit Norton while down , blatantly . His win over Shot Young was only due to cuts , and regarding the Lyle fite idk , do you ?
Cooney was total **** , either 1 of Ray Austin or Tony Thompson would have demolished him.

 

If Cooney was "total ****" (he wasn't) then there isn't a word to describe how wank Austin was.

 

jey vs ali he was past his prime,but in the liston fight,he was great

 

Cooney did deserve his shot...he could ko anyone , even Holmes if he had some luck

 

Rademacher and Audley surely up!

 

At least Austin has a draw with Ibragimov , which is way lot more than what Cooney actually achieved.

if
Greatness = getting stopped quickly

Cooney couldn't KO no1 , proof : his record . well , he could have KOd severely undersized bums .

 

Don Cockell was the #2 ranked contender, so I don't think that we can rank him among the less deserving title challengers.