Non World Champions who you loved to watch.

Barry Washington
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Michael Watson
Herol Graham
Harold Weston
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Emanuel Augustus is no.1 for me for this question
mikeycapp
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I have enjoyed watching the following non-champions, George Benton, Jerry Quarry, Bennie Briscoe, Orlando Zuluetta, Jose Stable, Gil Cadilli, Charlie Riley, Art Aragon, Ruben Carter, Bob Baker, Alex Miteff, Ralph "Tiger" Jones, Danny "Bang Bang" Womber, Ron Lyle. To name just a few.
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Jerry Quarry
Earnie Shavers
David Tua
Michael Watson
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Angel "El Diablo" Manfredy
Gil Turner
Luis Federico Thompson
Mando Muniz
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palooka wrote:What a fight de Roux v Murphy was :o I liked Ensley Bingham as well.
God yes, that fight made me reevaluate the realism of the Rocky movies; it was insanely violent. I keep hoping someone will upload it to YouTube.
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Yaqui Lopez, Howard Davis, Earnie Shavers, to name a few.
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Armando Muniz, Bennie Briscoe, Jimmy Bivins, Jerry Quarry, Yaqui Loez, Florentino Fernandez and so many others. I collect fights on film and there are quite a few that could have been champ. Love watching them all.
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Bernard Taylor
Alex Ramos
Terrance Ali
James Hardrock Green
Robert Elizondo.
Kalan
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Ike Ibeabuchi.... Luis Ortiz.... Oleksandr Gvozdyk... Artur Beterbiev... Callum Smith... Joe Smih... And there's not a lot footage of Charley Burley -- but from the little that's there He was a brilliant boxer.
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Mark Kaylor
Georgie Smith
Gary Mason
Tony Sibson
Errol Christie
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Tony Sibson
Michael Watson
Juan Roldan
Tommy Morrison
Cyclone Hart
Herol Graham
Yoshihiro Kamegai
Razor Ruddock
Kevin Mitchell
Scrap Iron Ryan
Keith Fletcher
Kalan
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Post by Kalan »

Charley Burley may have been the best never to win a title... Too bad there's not more footage of his fights, such as his trouncing of Archie Moore, who was bigger, stronger, and heavier. Burley decked Archie 4 X in a 10 rounder. That's a lot of time for an ATG to spend on the floor in a 10-rounder -- especially when he had over 70 fights and he's fighting a guy who he had a size advantage on.. Moore said he learned more from Burley than anyone.

Ike Ibeabuchi may have been the best Heavyweight who never won a World Title... When he had 16 fights he beat David Tua by UD... When he rounded his skills with 19 fights he cut off Chris Bryd out quickly... He wasn't trying to end it -- he wrecked Chris with regular shots... That was one of the more interesting fights I've ever seen -- because a rock hard man weighing 245 rarely throws tight, hard, accurate, deadly combinations and lands them on a slick boxer.
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Armando Muniz
Bennie Briscoe
Dave 'Boy' Green
Ray 'Windmill White
Yaqui Lopez
Halimi Gutierrez
Jesus Pimental
Art Hafey
Jerry Quarry
David Tua
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Bert cooper
Johnny armour
Sean Murphy
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Post by ClivePatrickLyons »

Aussie fighter Jeff [Flash] Malcolm won 100 fight's retired at 47 years old was first World rated in the WBC top 10 at Jr Welterweight in 1978 was rated in the WBA top 10 at Welterweight in 2002 when he hung them up for good that's 4 decade's being a World rated fighter. :salut:
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Post by Bodyshot3 »

Great how this decent thread has come back to life :salut:
Ended far too early first time round.

As said a few years back..... Liverpool's Andy Holligan was a great watch domestically and when sent out to Mexico to take Chavez on in late 1993 he did not blink and absolutely took it right too Chavez and frankly, rolled the dice and gave it a proper go....knowing he might get a career-shortening caning.

Brave, brave man because he could have played it far safer against someone like Chavez and in Mexico. Holligan had a proper tilt and deserves some respect.

Mike Watson is my other one.....saw off a rampaging Benn with some smart boxing, got so close to beating Eubank and just did not have enough to really test Mike McCallum. Watson was a classy guy in and out of the ring.
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