best champions without any title defenses

[margaret thatcher]

fury's case got me thinking


who are some of the best of this type?


you could include guys who never made a succesful defense too

[bennie]

Panama's Luis Ibarra.

[Foggy]

Ken Norton

[forcefraser]

Darren Barker

[bennie]

Ken Norton

Great shout. Norton was undoubtedly the best heavyweight in the world after his win over Jimmy Young in November 1977. Unfortunately for him, Larry Holmes was breathing down his neck.

[JC]

Not necessarily great, but famous:

Frank Bruno
Max Baer

[orbtastic]

Toney didn’t defend his cruiser title

Barkley didn’t manage a successful defence of any of his 3 titles.

[dookus]

I don't think Henry Armstrong ever defended his lightweight title. Not sure about featherweight, think he had a series of non-title fights after winning it.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Roy Jones never defended the WBA belt.

[jameswilson]

Derry Mathews....

[giacomino]

Jesus Salud
Roberto Duran didn't defend either his WBA junior middleweight belt or his WBC middleweight belt

[JC]

Surely this question only makes sense if you stick to fighters with not defences at all? Rather than fighters who have not defended one particular belt out of loads of others they've held.

[Old bones Ian]

George Foreman never defended the WBA title
Thomas Hearns didn't defend the WBO Supermiddle
Ray Leonard didn't defend the WBC middle , the WBC Light Heavy, or the WBA Super Welter

[Foggy]

Lavender Johnson win the vacant title then fought Chavez and ended up dying after complications, makes you wonder if he ever should have got the shot in the first place, just wasn’t at that level

[MightyWarrior]

Mexico’s Gregorio Vargas looked a million dollars taking out Paul Hogkinson, then ran into Kevin Kelley.

[margaret thatcher]

Surely this question only makes sense if you stick to fighters with not defences at all? Rather than fighters who have not defended one particular belt out of loads of others they've held.

ya, otherwise it widens things too much , as there have been loads of champ in abc era to not defend one specific belt but do so for others

[Switch hitter]

George Foreman never defended the WBA title
Thomas Hearns didn't defend the WBO Supermiddle
Ray Leonard didn't defend the WBC middle , the WBC Light Heavy, or the WBA Super Welter

Hearns didn't defend his WBC light heavy either

[dookus]

Surely this question only makes sense if you stick to fighters with not defences at all? Rather than fighters who have not defended one particular belt out of loads of others they've held.

Fair enough, sorry, I had in mind that when Armstrong was around there was one title per division, but probably better not to widen the field!

[Stevieaber]

Jimmy McLarnin