What if the color line lasts until 1980? How does the boxing landscape change?

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  1. USFBulls727

    USFBulls727 Active Member Full Member

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    Don't forget though, Mr. Chuvalo was around at the time, and does have a W over Quarry. Chuvalo almost certainly would have been Champion for awhile around that time.
     
  2. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Quarry is not the best white HW in this period IMO its Bugner. Whose saying Quarry beats Wepner?

    The "colored title" as you described it never existed. The system worked more to cull the number of top black fighters then to exclude the singular best one. Quarry pretending hes champion while an Ali, Frazier or Foreman went undefeated with no recognition wouldn't happen. Someone like Ken Norton would be screwed over the worst. The HWs who'd benefit the most are white guys ranked below Bugner, Quarry, Wepner and Evangelista who'd have a greatly inflated historical profile.

    Louis fought during the "colored title" era he ignored it and pursued the real title. Part of why Louis has the best pre title resume ever is he needed to be undeniable to get a title shot and after him no ones needed to compile that sort of resume to get their foot in the door ever again.
     
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  3. InMemoryofJakeLamotta

    InMemoryofJakeLamotta I have defeated the great Seamus Full Member

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    I forgot about Chuvalo and his win over Quarry.
     
  4. USFBulls727

    USFBulls727 Active Member Full Member

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    Good call. Forgot about him somehow. He probably would have had a long reign in the 70s.
     
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  5. HistoryZero26

    HistoryZero26 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Mildenburger earlier on also might foil him.


    For those bringing up Chuvalo Cleroux won his trilogy against him but never quite could earn a title shot.
     
  6. AntonioMartin1

    AntonioMartin1 Jeanette Full Member

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    Most of the best Heavyweights were black so, who knows? Richard Dunn, Joe Bugner