Worst Contender This Decade?

The Audley Harrison effort against Haye is what comes to mind. i cannot imagine the promoter walking to the dressing room after the bout and handing either Harrison or Stiverne a big check.

 

may be true..but he did win a gold medal at the olympics

 

He never brushed his teeth in the 5th grade because he was protecting his glass jaw. His head teacher went on record to validate that, even his PE teacher come out and said 's prone to being a bully, who beat up smaller, over-matched people to brag to his friends.

 

Micheal Dokes against Bowe, Ali against Holmes, Rahman against Povetkin, What the Heck Beck and Peter Okhello in their title challenges. All were probably worse, especially Rahman.

Stiverne was pretty good during the first fight though.

 

Good thing you are not the authority on credible examples.

 

Mormeck hadn't fought in over two years when he came back as a 40 year old to lose to Klitschko.
That fight was for all the belts...

 

Yup , that fight was just as bad if not worse. And it was a hand picked voluntary and WK took 4 rounds to end it.

 

Wilder doesn't have a real title either. He won that belt after Wlad was stripped for whatever reason. Fury and Joshua have a much more legitimate claim.

 

I would call it:

Worst mandotary!

A very big difference actually.

 

Vitali dropped that belt when he declined to fight Stiverne. Then Stiverne was ordered to fight Arreola for the vacant title.
Wilder won his WBC belt the same way Lennox Lewis won his.

 

Mormeck, at least he worked his ass of in gym and gave an effort in the ring.
Horrible mismatch tho.

 

I think Audley is still worse, as Stiverne can still be viewed as a 39 year old hasbeen (no matter how he won that belt), while Audley was a 39 year old never was.