The Top Heavy weight Journeymen

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  1. colinthfc

    colinthfc Guest

    Who now leads the lists of heavy weights who:
    • Regularly lose
    • Never get stopped
    • Always earn their money
    Clearly these fighters are the back bone of the business and should get more recognition.

    What name would you put forward as the elite heavy weight journeyman?
     
    colinthfc, Mar 18, 2009
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  2. TommyV

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    Right now or all-time?
     
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  3. colinthfc

    colinthfc Guest

    OK - 2 names

    Best of today + ATG Heavyweight journeyman
     
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  4. LHL

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    Hard to think of any but the one i remember at prsent when someone says heavyweight journeyman is Zuri Lawrence :huh
     
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  5. FINITO

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    Owen Beck? Got stopped by Barrett but still....
     
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  6. ishy

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    The Klit fans will say Ross Purrity (sp?) :yep
     
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  7. LHL

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    Beck doesn't fight the up and comers he fights bums and gets beat by decent fighters
     
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  8. TommyV

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    Marion Wilson?
     
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  9. Fat Tony

    Fat Tony Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Marion Wilson
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    = 57

    Went the distance with Mercer, Golota, Johnson, Briggs, Ikeabuchi, Maskaev, Rahman, Peter and McCall.


    ****, Tommy was faster.
     
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  10. FINITO

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    bingo!
     
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  11. TommyV

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    Oliver McCall
    Chazz Witherspoon
    Samuel Peter
    Tony Thompson
    Hasim Rahman
    Larry Donald
    Oleg Maskaev
    Ezra Sellers
    Derrick Jefferson
    Robert Hawkins
    Ike Ibeabuchi
    Orlin Norris
    Carl Williams
    Greg Page
    Andrew Golota
    Shannon Briggs
    Kirk Johnson
    Ray Mercer
    Vaughn Bean
    David Izon
    Jeremy Williams
    Tyrell Biggs
    Francois Botha

    List of guys Marion Wilson has fought. He actually got a draw with Ray Mercer aswell. He's never been knocked out or legimately stopped.

    The only times he hasn't been the distance are against McCall in one of the 2 fights, when he lost via DQ, same against Izon, against Larry Donald when he lost a 5 round technical decision, and his only stoppage early on in his career against a 9-0 prospect on cuts.

    He's also beaten a few unbeaten guys like Paea Wolfgramm who was 14-0 at the time, and like I said a draw with Ray Mercer etc.
     
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  12. LHL

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    :good
     
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  13. djm

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    Everett "Bigfoot" Martin (20-39-1) is another legend.

    Dwight Quai
    Foreman
    Coetzer
    Damiani
    Bowe
    Witherspoon (a win!!)
    Bonecrusher Smith
    Tony Tucker
    Larry Holmes
    Herbie Hide
    Lance Whiticker
    Wlad Klit (x2)
    Lamon Brewster
    Frez Oquendo
    Luan Krasniqi
    Sergei Lyachovich
    Ruslan Chagaev

    Stopped a few times, but not alot considering the competition. Retired for a while now, but a workhorse through the 90's into early 2000.
     
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  14. TommyV

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    Good call djm.
     
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  15. djm

    djm Boxing Addict Full Member

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    As for "active", probably Sedreck Fields. I'm sure he'll be quitting soon, but he's faced most of the current decent hw's and a good number of past ones (don't feel like typing them out). Not a lot of stoppages and a win over a prime-ish Shannon Briggs.

    http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=15718&cat=boxer
     
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