Worst run as champ?

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  1. ElCyclon

    ElCyclon Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Broner. 4 Div. "champ" and only 3 defenses total vs run-of-the-mill opponents.
     
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  2. IsaL

    IsaL VIP Member Full Member

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    Good shout
     
  3. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    Him and Ricky Burns managed to simulatanously have poor runs in the same divisions and somehow never met.
     
  4. LANCE99

    LANCE99 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Almost a replay of Joe C and Sven Ottke at 168. Although Ottke faced a few better foes. But it's terrible how two boxers were setting almost the same record simultaneously.
     
  5. Sugar 88

    Sugar 88 Woke Moralist-In-Chief

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    Careful now. We've got a decent thread here and whilst I agree with you in spirit - both had very poor defences - we don't need Herol clogging up proceedings with his manic obsessed nonsense.
     
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  6. Inside pass

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    Daniel Santos wbo reign. Good boxer but never got or tried to get, it seemed, a big fight with the super stars of that era. Very under the radar.
     
  7. Drew101

    Drew101 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    No mention of Luis Santana, yet?

    Kelly Pavlik's championship run at middleweight was pretty uninspired, especially given how impressive he looked in his run up to and including his title win.
     
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  8. LANCE99

    LANCE99 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Yeah, both were poor.
     
  9. Angler Andrew

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  10. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    There was no robbery against JMM.

    That's a myth.
     
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  11. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    It's not a very good shout out. He fought Derrick Gainer in his 3rd defense and Marquez in his 5th. In actual discussion of the John/Marquez fight and posting round by round scores over the years, almost all respectable opinions conclude a John victory. No respectable opinion concludes a robbery. Most people just regurgitate without actually watching it themselves... I do agree with your post.
     
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  12. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    It was indeed that for what, almost a decade before he "stepped up" and faced Porter. And he proved me wrong. But that doesn't change how long it took for him to test himself against a true top guy.
     
  13. Nonito Smoak

    Nonito Smoak Ioka>Lomo, sorry my dudes Full Member

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    George Foreman's final title run pretty bad. He was lineal champion and made defenses against Axel Schulz, Crawford Grimsley, and Lou Savarese in two years.
     
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  14. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Paul Spadafora:
    1. Renato Cornett (who?)
    2. Victoriano Sosa (decent fighter, almost stopped Paul)
    3. Mike Griffith (who?)
    4. Rodney Jones (who?)
    5. Billy Irwin (mediocre)
    6. Joel Perez (washed up never was)
    7. Charles Tshor...(who?)
    8. Manfredy (after he lost to Floyd, Diego, and Stevie)
    9. Denis Pederson (mediocre)
    10. Dorin (pretty good fighter, ended in a draw)

    A serious contender for worst double digit title reign.
     
  15. NoNeck

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    Way off. The majority of guys Stevenson beat were pretty good after Dawson. Dimitry Sukhotskiy was the only stiff he fought. Foreman easily had a worse run.
     
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