Unlucky Fighters

Yep. Duran would have probably always been something of a tall order for Buchanan to overcome. But the crux of the matter is that Duran won that fight unfairly, leading on the cards or not.

I've never dug deep enough to find out everything about Buchanan's 'loss' to Velasquez for the European title, but he seems to have been jobbed from the limited info I can gather. I also thought that he beat Ishimatsu despite stuttering in the last 3 rounds, and not getting the decision in that one probably knocked cold any chance of a ding-dong with DeJesus and a potential rematch with Duran. Chuck in that the loss to Nash was close (when Buchanan was past it and Nash was on the way up) and it's fair to say that he got the **** end of the stick every time really apart from the first Laguna fight (which I thought he won by about 2 or 3 points).

His career could have been different given the smallest variation in circumstance.

 

Joey Archer

 

ol sweet pea got dicked a couple of times something fierce.

 

Joshua Clottey was incredibly unlucky against Margarito breaking both hands when he was winning and especially against Cotto where i thought they just took it away from him so Cotto could fight Pacquiao.

 

oh yes!, im a huge fan of vince. i thought he beat ellis, oliveira and feliciano which all went the other way. i also heard that he had close fights with bunema and mitchell.

i think howard davis was a unlucky fighter. really had the pedigree to become champion.

victor polo- three split decision losses and a draw in title fights would kill me.

i thought bones adams and iran barkley where unlucky fighters as well.

 

John, I agree with Joey Archer..and after that second loss to Emile Griffith, he retire, as we all know...but I've always been curious as to what he did with his life after he left boxing..do you know anything about Archer, post-retirement?

 

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned him yet, but I believe that one of the unluckiest fighters of all time has to be Meldrick Taylor...3 seconds away from being champ...

 

Michael Nunn? So close to beating Toney but Toney came on & stopped him. Past-prime he was still good but lost close decisions. Now he sits in jail because of an overly-long drug sentence.

Good shoutout red cobra to another guy I'm a fan of, Jimmy Young. He could've beaten Cooney had he not got that cut.

 

Michael Watson. With the McCallum and Eubank fights, he was unlucky and tragic both.

Jorge Ahumada got ****ed something cruel against Foster, pushed Conteh all the way and then came up against his tommy-topper in Galindez. Excellent fighter he was.

Joey Archer is deserving of the mentions forwarded on his behalf thus far.

Rudkin. Harada probably edged him, but I thought he beat McGowan the first time, a loss that AlFrancis tells me caused him to be frozen out of the world scene for about 2 years, during which he was also scabbed of his European title against Ben Ali. Then we have the Rose decision, close though it was.

 

Alberto Davila.

 

Made some enquiries about Archer, rc, but haven't gotten any answers. Bet HH, as the head of the N.Y.Veteran Boxers Association, might know something.

 

Just saw a thread on him in the Brit forum and he fits here... featherweight cutie Colin McMillan.

His shoulder problems ruined his career just as he was moving to world class.Supermiddle prospect Dean Francis suffered the same fate.

I'm unsure how far they would have gone as both had their flaws, but they were certainly unlucky.

 

Luis Manuel Rodriguez was not one of your luckiest fighters from what I gather.

 

No chance, Duran was well ahead. He would of stopped him in one of the next two rounds.

 

Isufu "Ike/Bazooka" Quartey

You could argue only Wright ever beat him clearly, and taking that fight at that weight at that point in time was a fool's errand in the first place.