Julio Cesar Vasquez. 11 title defenses. Beat high quality fighters like Carl Daniels, Castillejo, Aaron Davis and put Whitaker on his ass while getting robbed of a decision.
Great pick! He came from out of the blue, beating John Davison, who I seem to recall was the favourite. Did really well as you said, beating mcmillan, Hoko, Duke mckenzie.
He gets plenty of stick but Johnny Nelson made 14 successful defences of his WBO cruiserweight title and hardly ever gets a mention.
I think it was more his style why he gets forgotten, he had plenty of stinkers as you well know. But when he was actually on it like he was vs Carl Thompson, he could be quite impressive.
Lamon Brewster. Won the title stopping Ukraine's Wlad Klitschko in a shootout. Barely escaped with a close decision over close friend Australia's Kali Meehan. Knocked out Luan Krasniqi in Germany on Max Schmeling's 100th birthday in a thriller. Demolished Poland's Andrew Golota in front of 20,000 predominently Polish fans in Chicago in what arguably should've been a fight to unify three heavyweight belts. And lost his title in one of the best heavyweight fights of the decade against Belarus Heavyweight Sergei Liakhovich. An exciting reign by a hard-punching champ who engaged in title fights with boxers from all over the world.
He did manage to shake off those horrible fights he'd previously had at cruiser weight and do quite well for him self.
Yes thats right i saw Johnny defeat Andy Gerrard in Stoke-on-Trent in the eighties and followed him ever since.I was mortified with his efforts against DeLeon and Warring but credit to him for redeeming himself later on
Fernando Vargas had a pretty good reign as IBF 154 Champ. Became the youngest in history to win a belt there until Canelo, beat top rated fighters like Winky Wright, Ike Quartey, Raul Marquez and Yori Boy Campus before losing to Trinidad. That's a pretty respectable list of opponents and achievements on its own. Pongsaklek Wonjongkam had a pretty historic championship run at Flyweight with 22 successful title fights and respectable list of opponents, will never forget when he exposed hypejob Koki Kameda. Juan Diaz had an underrated run as the LW champion. Unified 3 of the 4 major belts, beat Acelino Frietas, popped Cotto's bro cherry and beat Julio Diaz.
Another Hamed victim, Vuyani Bungu, made double digit defenses including wins over McKinney (twice, first time for the belt), Salud, and Danny Romero.
I think so too, not to mention the rules and conditions he fought in, like against Kilrain for example, bare knuckle, 75 rounds, beneath the sun.
