Are these the most obscure heavyweight title fights ever?

[Riddick Bowie]

If it's a heavyweight title fight and it happened between 1897 and 2000 I've watched it. The lone exception is Francesco Damiani vs Daniel Neto for the WBO heavyweight title, which I missed at the time and will hopefully never see.

Since 2000 things have got out of hand with heavyweight titles and even a hardcore like myself checked out and stopped paying attention. Are the following contests the most obscure, forgotten and irrelevant heavyweight title fights ever? Has anyone seen any of them? Does anyone want to see any of them? Were any of them not as utterly crap as they sound? Some of these men I literally cannot believe were permitted to fight for a belt even in a no talent / splintered title era.

Nikolay Valuev vs Owen Beck
Oleg Maskaev vs Peter Okhello
Sultan Ibragimov vs Evander Holyfield (45 yrs old)
Sultan ibragimov vs Shannon Briggs
Shannon Briggs vs Sergei Lyakovich
Alex Povetkin vs Cedric Boswell
Alex Povetkin vs Andrzej Wawrzyk
Ruslan Chagaev vs Carl Davis Drumond
Ruslan Chagaev vs Fres Oquendo
Ruslan Chagaev vs Francesco Pianeta
Ruslan Chagaev vs Lucas Browne
Joseph Parker vs Razvan Cojanu
Charles Martin vs Vyacheslav Glazkov
Bermaine Stiverne vs Chris Arreola II

[gilgamesh]

If it's a heavyweight title fight and it happened between 1897 and 2000 I've watched it. The lone exception is Francesco Damiani vs Daniel Neto for the WBO heavyweight title, which I missed at the time and will hopefully never see.

Since 2000 things have got out of hand with heavyweight titles and even a hardcore like myself checked out and stopped paying attention. Are the following contests the most obscure, forgotten and irrelevant heavyweight title fights ever? Has anyone seen any of them? Does anyone want to see any of them? Were any of them not as utterly crap as they sound? Some of these men I literally cannot believe were permitted to fight for a belt even in a no talent / splintered title era.

Nikolay Valuev vs Owen Beck
Oleg Maskaev vs Peter Okhello
Sultan Ibragimov vs Evander Holyfield (45 yrs old)
Sultan ibragimov vs Shannon Briggs
Shannon Briggs vs Sergei Lyakovich
Alex Povetkin vs Cedric Boswell
Alex Povetkin vs Andrzej Wawrzyk
Ruslan Chagaev vs Carl Davis Drumond
Ruslan Chagaev vs Fres Oquendo
Ruslan Chagaev vs Francesco Pianeta
Ruslan Chagaev vs Lucas Browne
Joseph Parker vs Razvan Cojanu
Charles Martin vs Vyacheslav Glazkov
Bermaine Stiverne vs Chris Arreola II

I saw 2 of those. Stiverne vs Arreola 2 and Briggs vs Liakhovich.

[Jeff_lacy_ko]

I watched almost all of these. In fact maybe all of them

Briggs vs liakhivich has a lot of dramaat the end but was overall dreary

Every other fight sucked

[Riddick Bowie]

Perhaps on reflection including the fights involving Shannon Briggs should not have been included on this list. I can't imagine they have much replay value tho

[margaret thatcher]

browne vs chagaev was actually a good fight believe it or not, both guys down, big comeback in enemy territory (chechen warlord president was there in person supporting chagaev)