The worst fighters to get title shots? past or present

ferguson golota and old holyfield may well have been totally undeserving, but they aren't amoung the worst fighters to get shots. even old holyfield was competitive with a fringe contender before his shot (oquendo) and arguably beat valuev (who should be a fringe contender as opposed to a belt holder). a guy like bobby gunn never even beat a contender in his life and had two shots. same w/ frazier (1 shot). golota was actually one of the top hw's at the time of the lewis fight regardless of whether his record shows two "losses" to bowe

 

Ossie Ocascio
Richard Dunn

 

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LOL gary locket looked like mr. smith from the matrix with that corny stare down. He was undefeated so there has to be worse but dam he was one undefeated BUM lol. manfredo was who i thought of off top so good call with that. Oh my goodness I just thought of someone on lockett's level LOL, MICHEAL JENNINGS!!! what about that guy hackar or something like that. Middle weight bum contender who faught bhop back in 02 I think? He dam sure shouldn't have been fighting anybody.

 

Ruiz is top five worst fighters to watch all time meterial period.

 

dam someone beat me to micheal jennings

 

It's also funny that he's trying to get a title shot against Valuev. A potential trilogy where one fighter lost in the first match and the rematch. That's sad.

 

hahaha that is sad as hell

 

That's what being connected to powerful promoters will do. :yep

Seriously, the Ruiz fraud is one of the most disgraceful chapters in boxing history - a glorified clubfighter rising to a level his mediocre abilities never would have merited, all because of corruption and cheating.

 

Morrade Hakkar
Vs Bernard Hopkins
The MFer just ran scared the whole time.

 

Lockett wasn't undefeated, he'd already dropped a decision to some Russian nobody earlier in his career. Pretty sure his last fight before the Pavlik massacre was against a fellow bum who'd lost as many fights as he'd won as well, so god only knows how that warrants a shot at the unified division champ.

Back on subject anyway, for worst guys ever to get shots at a belt you really don't need to look much further than Calzaghe's early defences (Tocker Pudwill anyone?) or the entire "reign" of Enzo Maccarinelli before he got exposed by Haye. How he had the balls to call himself a world champ fighting the likes of Booby Gunn & Mohammed Azzaoui I'll never know...

 

Valuev

 

Michael Jennings vs Miguel Cotto

Matt Skelton vs Ruslan Chagaev

Peter Manfredo vs Joe Calzaghe

Marco Antonio Rubio vs Kelly Pavlik

Naseem Hamed vs Marco Antonio Barrera

 

Alfonso Gomez

 

:-x