Who is the WORST challenger for a world title in HISTORY?

:yikes How fights like this got sanctioned I will NEVER know.

Do the authorities just not give a **** about the integrity of their own rankings?

 

OK, then change the wording to "The Calzaghe fight gave him an opportunity...", "the Calzaghe fight legitimized him...", ffs.

I understand that every single mention of Joe Calzaghe on this forum gets taken as a mad campaign against him, but in this case you are way off.

No-one is faking Rick Thornberry's record, and no-one is saying Joe Calzaghe chased him round Australia on a kangaroo,

what I was saying is that the list of opponents he beat to get a title shot is SPECTACULARLY bad.

Whether that is Calzaghe's fault, Frank Warren's fault, the WBO's fault, none of that is of any relevance here.

What is relevant is Rick Thornberry's recent record before he got a title shot... because the thread is about how terrible challengers managed to get a title shot. Therefore, Thornberry IS a valid choice.

What part of this is causing you difficulty exactly? :huh


Richard Frazier was a mando for Roy Jones, does that mean he can never be mentioned in any discussion of terrible challengers either then? Why not, when he was a terrible challenger???

 

What age are you, 12?

You clearly have seen people call each other "boxrec warriors" on here, so automatically think that any use of it is something to use as an insult. atsch

Boxrec is a massive and brilliant resource which gives us access to information we could not readily access any other way. If you want to go round being an ill-informed elitist snob criticizing other people for openly using the resource, be my guest.

But I, like the vast majority of serious posters here, will continue to use it to research obscure fighters whenever we wish. :good

 

:huh How exactly is beating these 6 opponents:

...more deserving of a title shot than going the distance in a world title fight with an undefeated world champion?


You guys get a raging hard-on any time Calzaghe is mentioned, but taking Joe C out of the equation for a nanosecond, Rick Thornberry's last 6 opponents before he got his first title shot must be considered one of the worst lead-ups to a title shot in history, true or false? :think

 

This is just the usual semantic bull**** that goes on here. Fine, you change the wording to "the Calzaghe fight", the over-sensitive Calzaghe fans can relax once more:

Rick Thornberry's last 6 opponents in the lead-up to his title shot make him a disgraceful opponent, one of the worst in history, and I've yet to see anyone name a worse lead-up to a title shot on this thread, even though some equally terrible challengers have been provided (and the two Zarate ones which were even worse).

I'll ask you the question I asked earlier:

 

You are 12.

So you would never, ever, even mention the resume or opponents of a fighter if you hadn't actually seen all of their fights, and their opponents' fights?


making up non-sensical lies in order to win petty arguments...

troll. :deal

 

I do indeed. I haven't faked any details from Thornberry's record. I have quoted facts.

You also have a point.

That's why I asked for anyone to present their own suggestions.

And as I've already said, I did not know about those Zarate defences.

Those blow Thornberry and the rest out of the water, for sure.

That those fights were sanctioned is truly unbelievable! nut