The thought of Glazkov being able to call himself World heavyweight champion got me thinking who is worst current champion, no regular champs please unless there is no super champ at the weight.
Talent:
Ovill McKenzie is a journeyman who had 11 days to prepare for Ramirez and took him to a draw, one could argue he won. So, I'd say in terms of talent he is absolute dog s.hit.
Least Deserving:
Broner. Needs no explanation.
Opposition:
Kell Brook, I mean damn.
People are selecting Broner, but is he not one of the top 5 guys in his weight class?
How many guys would you take to beat Broner in that weight class? I think the only two guys that are better are Crawford and Postol. But I'll take him over Figueroa, Troyanovsky, Provo and Lucas etc.
Guys like Liam Smith, I can go 20 deep with fighters that could likely beat this guy in his weight class. He's the quintessential paper champion.
Depends on what you mean by worst
If you mean deserving, well Floyd is still WBA welterweight champion despite being officially retired. Wilder beat Stiverne who beat Arreola. How that lineage of fights counts as world championship level is laughable. Quigg is only a recognised champion now because Rigo was stripped.
If you mean by worst boxer, i'd probably argue Kono. His current reign started from a vacant title. The recent bout between him and Kameda was a set up for Kameda to become a 4 weight world champion, in the same light as Broner, but Kameda ****ed it up. I think Koki was the best of the three brothers too, shame.
Chudinov is WBA Regular champion isn't he? He didn't beat Ward anyway.
Crolla at least stopped the world champion for his title. He has improved since losing to Matthews.
If you're talking least talented, that Ramirez guy looked god awful against Ovil McKenzie.
As ward vacated Chudinov is the only wba champion so I included him, I
agree about Ramirez although I like ovil he has no business winning a world title and if that fight was in the uk he would have won. Crolla's a bit better but still loses to: Mitchell, Burns, Flanagan, Derry and Campbell
Chudinov is WBA Regular champion isn't he? He didn't beat Ward anyway.
Crolla at least stopped the world champion for his title. He has improved since losing to Matthews.
If you're talking least talented, that Ramirez guy looked god awful against Ovil McKenzie.
Alexander Alexeev was a -5000 favorite when he lost to Ramirez, thats the biggest upset i can remember in a championship fights.
Going through the champions list on wiki, damn the UK got a lot of champions, the most of any nation.
Sure most are paper champs but still a lot of good fighters they have right now.
I agree Linares sucks, this guy got whooped by Thompson, DeMarco and Salgado, his next fight is somehow for the ring title lol.
Lee Haskins and Liam Smith are the two worst belt holders that I can currently think of.
I think Liam Smith is the worst fighter among his brothers, and I'm just not impressed with him.
Lee Haskins as well.
This is literally Liam Smith's next opponent...
http://brightcove.vo.llnwd.net/e1/pd/4221396001/4221396001_4095068845001_Jimmy-Kelly-vs.jpg?pubId=4221396001
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I've not seen Liam Smith that I recall, but I heard many downplay his talent. He did KO the ESPN champ guy who I thought was alright doe so he can't be THAT bad,
He was losing the fight and also although Thompson looked decent you could tell that he had no chin from the start
Chudinov and Crolla did win the belts against champions atleast. But if your 0-1-1 against dirty Derry its hard to take you too seriously.
Chudinov is WBA Regular champion isn't he? He didn't beat Ward anyway.
Crolla at least stopped the world champion for his title. He has improved since losing to Matthews.
If you're talking least talented, that Ramirez guy looked god awful against Ovil McKenzie.
Lee Haskins and Liam Smith are the two worst belt holders that I can currently think of.
I think Liam Smith is the worst fighter among his brothers, and I'm just not impressed with him.
Lee Haskins as well.
IDK every single champion, there's so many of them, but I will have to go with Jorge Linares right now off the top of my head, not using google or any source to see who else is champ. I would say Linares because he is a paper champ, he won a vacant WBC title and hasn't defended it against any good fighter. On top of this, he's in the LW division, which has no good fighters anyway. He can defend his titles against Super Featherweights coming up in weight and those would be better wins than anyone in LW. For example Uchiyama, Fortuna, Salido.