Your favourite fighters...who weren't that good!

I really liked Mike Weaver from the Holmes fight to the Dokes II fight (which I had him winning by three points) to the crushing ko of Williams.

I rooted for him quite a bit in the 80s. He was a bit like a Rocky story.

 

Terry Norris

 

David Lemieux

 

Nope, big fan too! One reason He might not fit this topic is He was very good in my opinion, but obviously there are levels so all depends on the point of comparision.
I always thought that He was better defensive fihgter than Ike Quartey - and if Ike had defensive skills of Clottey, in addition to his offensive potential - He'd be an all-time-great.

 

Shannan Taylor and Lester Ellis from Australia. Both decent but not quite top class. Both all action fighters and good fun. Ellis won a few world titles for second tier organisations. I think Taylor won something second rate as well.

 

Deontay Wilder! Massive power but has the most atrocious skill set I've ever seen. Next I'd say James Page.

 

Second that !!!!

 

Richard Dunn wasn’t a great talent, but was a favourite of mine. He was from near my home town in Northern England and I always supported him whom ever he fought.

The pinnacle of his career was his world title fight with Ali. There was little me in one corner cheering on the local hero, and in the other corner there were my treacherous parents supporting the champion.

Of course we all know the result…Dunn just wasn’t in Ali’s league at all. He got the title shot after beating a load of 2nd rate fighters, but Richard was never ever going to trouble Ali.

In Dunn’s next fight he got KO’d by that well known hard hitting slugger Joe Bugner (sarcasm) in one round…but he was still my hero, regardless of that beating.

Edit:
I’ve just been informed that Dunn was the last fighter that Ali ever stopped/KO’d. So that’s a claim to fame for Richard right there!

 

Sugar Gibiliru, & Jamie McKeever. Good solid local fighters who always gave their all and, against the odds, both become British champs (briefly). Sugar was a staple on Monday Night boxing back in the early 90s and I knew Jamie, who had a couple of great scraps with Tony Mulholland at the Everton Park Centre.

 

Audley Harrison springs to mind. Anything could happen with that guy, one moment he could be dominating, the next he could have been spectacularly knocked out.

Amir Khan and David Price were like that as well, talented fighters who ultimately had no chins. Made for entertaining fights.

 

Really enjoyed watching him fight also. Excellent technician, in a mold of Kazuto Ioka and such. Very skillful and smart, just lacked on the physical side.

 

I've always thought Ted Cheeseman sounds like a middle-aged perv in a 1970s saucy British comedy- Confessions of a Light Middleweight.

 

I didn’t know whether to include the following as I thought at one time or another they were all, at the very least in the good category which is the main reason that I liked them in the first place. Maybe they didn’t turn out to be as good as I thought they would be but since they are mostly forgotten today or unknown to the younger generation of fans, I will include them.

David Bey
Frank ‘the Animal’ Fletcher
Michael Olajide
Robin Blake
Earl Hargrove
Tony Baltazar
Charlie‘White Lightning’Brown