Worst HW title challangers ever?

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  1. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Something to do over the Christmas...who was the poorest HW title(linear) challanger ever?
    Or even a top ten? Bottom ten!
    Some of Burns opponents? Joe Louis bums? Holmes had a few...and Frazier.
     
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  2. Bummy Davis

    Bummy Davis Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Holmes had a few bad ones and Ali when he was the peoples champ, Louis fought anyone who broke the top 5 but dispatched them faster than they could find any new ones,,,but Louis fought the most Champions also
     
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  3. mcvey

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    Jean Pierre Koopmans
    Bruce Seldon
    Terry Daniels
    Johnny Paychek
     
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    Titan1 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Scott Frank
     
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  5. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    Roper and Wepner at the top of the list
     
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  6. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    There were quite a few candidates to be honest. Louis fought Jack Roper. patterson fought a guy who was just making his debut. Riddick Bowe fought a washed up Ferguson. I guess the list goes on, and you can make a fair argument for a lot of stiffs who got shots.
     
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  7. mr. magoo

    mr. magoo VIP Member Full Member

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    Believe it or not, Chuck Wepner was better than quite a few guys that I can think of who got title shots.
     
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    groove Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Henry Akinwande. That bum against Lewis was the worst heavy fight i've ever seen. But it was a long time ago and no i won't ever be re-watching it.
     
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  9. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Was Paycheck that bad?
    Roche and Palmer were poor as were Moir but I think Jewey Smith was the worst of that lot. Jack Roper and Al McCoy are two more beauts.
    And who could forget Nick Barone? All of us I suppose! Rademacher and Coopman , also Daniels and Roman come to my mind. Geeze tere were a lot of undeserving challangers.
     
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  10. janitor

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    Johny Paycheck cracked the top 5 in the annual rankings one year so I dont think he is in the running.
     
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  11. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    The worst fighter to challenge for the lineal title will be sombody who was engaged to fight the champion in an exhibition which was upgraded to a title defence by the local athletic comision. Thus it was only a title defence by technicality.
     
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  12. UpWithEvil

    UpWithEvil Active Member Full Member

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    There is only ONE correct answer to this question:

    PETER RADEMACHER.
     
    UpWithEvil, Dec 26, 2007
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  13. janitor

    janitor VIP Member Full Member

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    He did go on the beat George Chuvalo and Lamar Clark. This means that he did go on to atain a higher level in the sport than some who have fought for the title.
     
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  14. mattdonnellon

    mattdonnellon Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I dont think Rademacher is the worst by any means-on the day he won the Olympics he could have beaten loads of other challangers-but he is probably the most undeserving.IMO.
     
    mattdonnellon, Dec 26, 2007
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  15. Duodenum

    Duodenum Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    By this standard, that would place Johnny Davis on the list, by virtue of his 53 second starching in Buffalo at the hands of Joe Louis in 1944.
    Jimmy Darcy found himself in a similar situation with Dempsey in Buffalo over twenty years earlier, but Darcy had put Loughran on the deck earlier in the year, was a tough journeyman who had won more than he lost, and had never been stopped in 106 bouts. Dempsey was forbidden to knock him out, and Darcy didn't really belong in the ring with Jack, but Jimmy's history was hardly that of a sacrificial stiff. For the NYSAC to mandate that Louis/Davis could not be held as an exhibition was a complete absurdity.
     
    Duodenum, Dec 26, 2007
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