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Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 15:08
by wrighty
JamesPhilips wrote: 16 Mar 2024, 13:54 Did Dmtri Pirog win a world title?
Wbo punched Danny Jacobs into next week. Beat up gennady martirosyan. Dropped his title to fight ggg then his back went badly.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 15:41
by Johnjb
Katsidis

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 22:40
by Flump
JamesPhilips wrote: 15 Mar 2024, 21:10
Flump wrote: 14 Mar 2024, 09:52 At heavyweight, would have to be
Ron Lyle
Earnie Shavers
Jimmy Young
Gerry Cooney
Razor Ruddock
David Tua
Ray Mercer
Ray mercer won the WBO.

For me Gerry Cooney
I know, I debated about including him as at the time the WBO title was lightly regarded, and Mercer gave it up as it was hampering his career.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 16 Mar 2024, 23:03
by JamesPhilips
wrighty wrote: 16 Mar 2024, 15:08
JamesPhilips wrote: 16 Mar 2024, 13:54 Did Dmtri Pirog win a world title?
Wbo punched Danny Jacobs into next week. Beat up gennady martirosyan. Dropped his title to fight ggg then his back went badly.
Yeah sorry. Greta fighter

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 19 Mar 2024, 12:30
by Cholo_cws
Juan Domingo Roldan.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 19 Mar 2024, 14:24
by TheGoods
Had a soft spot for Choi. Very tough and rugged fighter who plenty avoided during his prime.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 19 Mar 2024, 16:18
by SeanBrennan
TheGoods wrote: 19 Mar 2024, 14:24 Had a soft spot for Choi. Very tough and rugged fighter who plenty avoided during his prime.
really liked Choi, so exciting. Proper warrior.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 21 Mar 2024, 11:05
by olij999
I'll also nominate this chap - https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/8479 - world top-ten ranked for a while in the first half of the 1960s, possibly among the most well-travelled of any fighters, although he obviously lost interest in some of his fights after around 1965-66 or so. Anyone who can stick Laguna on the floor twice and beat plenty of contenders clearly knows what he is doing.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 21 Mar 2024, 15:54
by JamesPhilips
olij999 wrote: 21 Mar 2024, 11:05 I'll also nominate this chap - https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/8479 - world top-ten ranked for a while in the first half of the 1960s, possibly among the most well-travelled of any fighters, although he obviously lost interest in some of his fights after around 1965-66 or so. Anyone who can stick Laguna on the floor twice and beat plenty of contenders clearly knows what he is doing.
Damn. A lot of fights. Only stopped 3 times

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 21 Mar 2024, 16:26
by si7dog7
Bennie Briscoe for me

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 21 Mar 2024, 17:27
by SeanBrennan
si7dog7 wrote: 21 Mar 2024, 16:26 Bennie Briscoe for me
excellent pick, two decade pro career too. RIP Mr Briscoe.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 21 Mar 2024, 17:29
by SeanBrennan
Johnjb wrote: 16 Mar 2024, 15:41Katsidis
such a good pic he's like pre-written into those lists isn't he.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 25 Mar 2024, 19:50
by Grilling Machine
wrighty wrote: 16 Mar 2024, 15:08
JamesPhilips wrote: 16 Mar 2024, 13:54Did Dmtri Pirog win a world title?
Wbo punched Danny Jacobs into next week. Beat up gennady martirosyan. Dropped his title to fight ggg then his back went badly.
I've failed to mention Pirog a few times because of his WBO, but we can kinda say it doesn't count!

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 17 Oct 2025, 12:40
by Taansend
SeanBrennan wrote: 10 Mar 2024, 18:16
margaret thatcher wrote: 10 Mar 2024, 18:13 khurtsidze was a wild man, genuinely scary dangerous guy despite being a hobbit
deffo, good to watch too. Boxing King Media did a great interview with him
Fights tomorrow on the undercard of the Danny "I had two great years 12 years ago" Garcia bill.

Khurtsidze has only lost one bout in the last twenty years. I'm assuming he's angling for a Supermiddle shot but he's fighting a bloke who's 6-4 & is no spring chicken.

And talking of Garcia, I think it's his farewell fight. I don't think I've seen too many fighters go from his fantastic run in 2011-13 to pretty mediocre afterwards. His run of Kendall Holt (I was there for that one), Erik Morales, Amir Khan, Morales again, Judah & then Matthysse - who was being viewed as a monster at that time - was fantastic. Then he never really reached anything close to that again. A tough fighter. I hope he has a nice life post boxing career.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 17 Oct 2025, 12:48
by gilgamesh
It'd probably have to be David Tua

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 18 Oct 2025, 13:19
by SeanBrennan
Taansend wrote: 17 Oct 2025, 12:40
SeanBrennan wrote: 10 Mar 2024, 18:16
margaret thatcher wrote: 10 Mar 2024, 18:13 khurtsidze was a wild man, genuinely scary dangerous guy despite being a hobbit
deffo, good to watch too. Boxing King Media did a great interview with him
Fights tomorrow on the undercard of the Danny "I had two great years 12 years ago" Garcia bill.

Khurtsidze has only lost one bout in the last twenty years. I'm assuming he's angling for a Supermiddle shot but he's fighting a bloke who's 6-4 & is no spring chicken.

And talking of Garcia, I think it's his farewell fight. I don't think I've seen too many fighters go from his fantastic run in 2011-13 to pretty mediocre afterwards. His run of Kendall Holt (I was there for that one), Erik Morales, Amir Khan, Morales again, Judah & then Matthysse - who was being viewed as a monster at that time - was fantastic. Then he never really reached anything close to that again. A tough fighter. I hope he has a nice life post boxing career.
blimey be interesting to see what shape he is in

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 18 Oct 2025, 22:02
by Taansend
SeanBrennan wrote: 18 Oct 2025, 13:19
blimey be interesting to see what shape he is in
Here's a link to the BS article with a photo, Sean

https://www.BS.com/articles/av ... earns-tko2

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 19 Oct 2025, 06:17
by SeanBrennan
Taansend wrote: 18 Oct 2025, 22:02
SeanBrennan wrote: 18 Oct 2025, 13:19
blimey be interesting to see what shape he is in
Here's a link to the BS article with a photo, Sean

https://www.BS.com/articles/avtandil-kh ... earns-tko2
Fantastic thanks mate

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 19 Oct 2025, 07:58
by Old bones Ian
Mario Martinez for his challenges to Chavez and Azumah Nelson. The amount of punishment he took and kept firing back
Chavez basically tenderized Martinez for 8 rounds and he pushed Nelson all the way in both challenges to him.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 19 Oct 2025, 23:14
by Taansend
Emmanuel Augustin.

One of my favourite human beings.

I would love to know how he's doing now. He got shot in the head a few years back.

Re: your favourite foriegn fighter who never won a world title

Posted: 20 Oct 2025, 12:08
by JamesPhilips
I would’ve like to see Marvis Frazier win a title at cruiser