Your favorite resume padding cherry pickers?

[famicommander]

There are some fighters out there that made a living by cherry picking washed up former champions and/or fighting champions several weight classes outside their normal range.

Who are some of your favorites?

My personal favorite is Brian Nielsen. Look at these world titlists he beat in his career:
James "Bonecrusher" Smith
Jeff Lampkin
Tony Tubbs
Carlos de Leon
Larry Holmes
Tim Witherspoon
Orlin Norris
Uriah Grant

That's a damn fine list of names to have, notches on his belt. The only problem? Those guys were anywhere from five on the low end to 15 years past their respective primes, and some of them were pulled up from cruiserweight even considering that.

He tried it again with Tyson in 2001, but Tyson wasn't quite washed enough and stopped Nielsen.

[The Old LefHook]

You are using the word "favorite," satirically?

[QueensburyRules]

There are some fighters out there that made a living by cherry picking washed up former champions and/or fighting champions several weight classes outside their normal range.

Who are some of your favorites?

My personal favorite is Brian Nielsen. Look at these world titlists he beat in his career:
James "Bonecrusher" Smith
Jeff Lampkin
Tony Tubbs
Carlos de Leon
Larry Holmes
Tim Witherspoon
Orlin Norris
Uriah Grant

That's a damn fine list of names to have, notches on his belt. The only problem? Those guys were anywhere from five on the low end to 15 years past their respective primes, and some of them were pulled up from cruiserweight even considering that.

He tried it again with Tyson in 2001, but Tyson wasn't quite washed enough and stopped Nielsen.

- - Fami like the perpetual ****** handing out daily gifts of cherries gives us yet another gift.

Lar my fav punch monkey packed his first 7 career years with the most useless cast of "who dat be again?" until meeting his first ranked fighter, Shavers. When he won his WBC Administrative belt over Ken Norton by a fractional 0.002% of the collective scoring, Lordy, Lordy, he hit the big time with DKing pulling his strings, first ducking the lucrative Norton rematch that saw Lar needing reconstructive surgery to line up a collective cast of Ali leftovers, Evangelista, Cruiser Ocasio, and Norton inferior journeyman sparring partner Weaver. On Fami punch monkey list we see Baby Tim 15-0, Smith 14-1, and Tony Tubbs one of the half dozen cast of WBA champs single Administrative Beltholder in the multibelt era Lar managed to duck.

Reason being anytime Lar stepped up to a champion holding a title won in the ring, his record read a miserable null and void, 0-6, 0 KO.

[famicommander]

You are using the word "favorite," satirically?

Yes.

This thread is about respecting the hustle of guys with fake resumes.

[billeau2]

Errrr Mayweather?

PIcking a young and non seasoned Canelo at a catchweight.
Fighting Zab way after he was the Lion of Judah so to speak...
Fightng Marquez at a weight where he was small and would not dent a fabriege egg....
Pacquio when he was past it...
Hatton after Ricki had slowed down and had become a humping machine.
I mean I hate to bring it up and all... But at least Jones fought Toney and Hopkins at prime...

[famicommander]

Errrr Mayweather?

PIcking a young and non seasoned Canelo at a catchweight.
Fighting Zab way after he was the Lion of Judah so to speak...
Fightng Marquez at a weight where he was small and would not dent a fabriege egg....
Pacquio when he was past it...
Hatton after Ricki had slowed down and had become a humping machine.
I mean I hate to bring it up and all... But at least Jones fought Toney and Hopkins at prime...

Floyd fought some guys late but he still fought a ridiculous amount of titlists. Some pre-prime, some in their absolute primes, some on the downside:
Genaro Henandez
Gregorio Vargas
Diego Corrales
Carlos Hernandez
Jesus Chavez
Jose Luis Castillo
Jose Luis Castillo
DeMarcus Corley
Arturo Gatti
Sharmba Mitchell
Zab Judah
Carlos Baldomir
Oscar De La Hoya
Ricky Hatton
Juan Manuel Marquez
Shane Mosley
Victor Ortiz
Miguel Cotto
Robert Guerrero
Canelo Alvarez
Marcos Maidana
Marcos Maidana
Manny Pacquiao
Andre Berto

26-0-0-0 in world title fights
23-0-0-0 in lineal title fights
24-0-0-0 against fighters who won at least one world title
12-0-0-0 against fighters who won at least one lineal title

Even if you take out all the wins that you call "cherry picks" he's still a first ballot Hall of Famer.

And let's not forget that Floyd was past his prime himself by the time he fought Marquez. It's not like Floyd's prime lasted from 1998-2015.

The spirit of this thread is guys like Nielsen, who built literally their whole legacy off the back of shot fighters. He never once beat a contender or champion in their prime.

[Willie Pep 229]

Errrr Mayweather?

PIcking a young and non seasoned Canelo at a catchweight.
Fighting Zab way after he was the Lion of Judah so to speak...
Fightng Marquez at a weight where he was small and would not dent a fabriege egg....
Pacquio when he was past it...
Hatton after Ricki had slowed down and had become a humping machine.
I mean I hate to bring it up and all... But at least Jones fought Toney and Hopkins at prime...

I won't disagree with any of your choices (because I know jack about them) . . . also I am not TBE fan under any circumstance.

But in the case of Canelo I think there, he was taking a chance by taking on an upcoming 'could be' sensation . . . A that point it would be hard to know that Canelo wasn't ready and needed a couple more fights, he could have run into a 'Young Tyson' like buzz saw that night and had been suprised.

Don't think Canelo should ne thought of as a cherry pick; he couldn't have known if it was too early or not. I think that night he took a risk.

Of course two years later he gets laid out.

What about taking on Triple GGG?; now there was an opportunity with the timing right for him to step up and say I truly am The Best Ever. But he didn't.

[billeau2]

Floyd fought some guys late but he still fought a ridiculous amount of titlists. Some pre-prime, some in their absolute primes, some on the downside:
Genaro Henandez
Gregorio Vargas
Diego Corrales
Carlos Hernandez
Jesus Chavez
Jose Luis Castillo
Jose Luis Castillo
DeMarcus Corley
Arturo Gatti
Sharmba Mitchell
Zab Judah
Carlos Baldomir
Oscar De La Hoya
Ricky Hatton
Juan Manuel Marquez
Shane Mosley
Victor Ortiz
Miguel Cotto
Robert Guerrero
Canelo Alvarez
Marcos Maidana
Marcos Maidana
Manny Pacquiao
Andre Berto

26-0-0-0 in world title fights
23-0-0-0 in lineal title fights
24-0-0-0 against fighters who won at least one world title
12-0-0-0 against fighters who won at least one lineal title

Even if you take out all the wins that you call "cherry picks" he's still a first ballot Hall of Famer.

And let's not forget that Floyd was past his prime himself by the time he fought Marquez. It's not like Floyd's prime lasted from 1998-2015.

The spirit of this thread is guys like Nielsen, who built literally their whole legacy off the back of shot fighters. He never once beat a contender or champion in their prime.

Hall of Fame is irrelevant. ATG is the real prize and sure I think Floyd is ATG but the fact remains he never fought a fellow ATG at prime. And he was not dominant in his wins against fighters like De La Hoya and Pac. Just sayin' lol.

[billeau2]

I won't disagree with any of your choices (because I know jack about them) . . . also I am not TBE fan under any circumstance.

But in the case of Canelo I think there, he was taking a chance by taking on an upcoming 'could be' sensation . . . A that point it would be hard to know that Canelo wasn't ready and needed a couple more fights, he could have run into a 'Young Tyson' like buzz saw that night and had been suprised.

Don't think Canelo should ne thought of as a cherry pick; he couldn't have known if it was too early or not. I think that night he took a risk.

Of course two years later he gets laid out.

What about taking on Triple GGG?; now there was an opportunity with the timing right for him to step up and say I truly am The Best Ever. But he didn't.

Well... Perhaps if he had fought Canelo at a decent weight and not a catch weight that caused poor Saul problems.

[Ropeee]

Lewis Mercer-lewis lose Mercer Schooled by grandpa Holmes
Mccall-Lenny get destroyed
Holyfield-Old
Tyson-washed
Ruddock-already beaten
Klitscko-lucky win ducked rematch
Tucker-Washed
Tommy:HIV
Rahman:Lenny get destroyed
Ducked ruiz and byrd
Tua overrated overweight bum
weaver:washed