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  • #21
    Originally posted by billeau2 View Post
    Ok...

    Ollie McCall
    Ike Iebuchi
    maybe Te Lopez we shall see
    Those are a few that come to mind
    Ike had two big wins. McCall had a really good mid-level run. Had some good paydays. Crazy that he fought all the way to 2019 and was never stopped in almost 75 fights. I cant even remember if he was ever down
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    • #22
      Originally posted by markusmod View Post

      Ike had two big wins. McCall had a really good mid-level run. Had some good paydays. Crazy that he fought all the way to 2019 and was never stopped in almost 75 fights. I cant even remember if he was ever down
      - - Ollie never down or buzzed in a fight in spite of being a crack addict.
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      • #23
        Originally posted by QueensburyRules View Post

        - - Ollie never down or buzzed in a fight in spite of being a crack addict.
        Guy had ATG level beard and Power... I heard (don't know) that Tyson was scared to death of him lol.

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        • #24
          Who can forget the blistering title run of Charles Martin?

          Malignaggi was basically a two-hit wonder, winning titles in two weight classes from fringe contenders and losing them almost immediately.

          From '79 - '86 there was a long string of one-hit wonders being crowned HW champion. Weaver, Dokes, Page, Tubbs, Berbick, and a couple others.

          Quincy Taylor at MW.

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          • #25
            Originally posted by Willie Pep 229 View Post

            Isn't he the poster child for the overrated 'made by TV fighter' ? Truth be told I just assumed I was repeating CW. You see more?
            No worries my friend.
            Davey was not to become the next Ketchel, but he had some real talent, in spite of what some feckless typewriter jockey might have written while seated at a safe distance.
            I respect the fighters. I like to look at the sum of the individual:

            https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...y11-story.html

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            • #26
              Originally posted by billeau2 View Post

              Guy had ATG level beard and Power... I heard (don't know) that Tyson was scared to death of him lol.
              - - Me ol' AOL bud Benny Henderson has a perfect square of 2 squared record of 2 fights, 2 wins, 2 KO in 2 min of Ring time is a big boy as you can see here, slimmed down from the jolly 400lber I knew him before he turned pro-
              https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/345037

              He did an interview with Ollie for the boxing rag he was writing for and told me he was visibly trying to control his shakes as he interviewed him. I gather Ollie is the last guy anyone wants to tangle with at Last Chance Saloon.
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              • #27
                Originally posted by Willow The Wisp View Post

                No worries my friend.
                Davey was not to become the next Ketchel, but he had some real talent, in spite of what some feckless typewriter jockey might have written while seated at a safe distance.
                I respect the fighters. I like to look at the sum of the individual:

                https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...y11-story.html
                Good article- I needed the education.
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                • #28
                  Originally posted by Nash out View Post

                  Leon Spinks. Nash out.
                  Nash nails it. Undisputed, Lineal Heavyweight Champion of the world, 7th fight, outside of a great performance against a pretty darned good Evangelista, ol' Leon never again threatened. I want to say here that Leon Spinks was about the nicest person you'd ever care to meet. In his day, brief as it was, he was an honest to God cultural Icon. Sure, he was the fodder for jokes on Saturday Night Live skits, but that never bothered him as far as I could tell. When he had good fortune, he was a person well intuned with that good fortune. No tears for Leon either. The gross majority of his youth companions in the Pruitt Igoe had passed away long before Neon Leon Spinks did, and they never, ever had Their season.
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                  • #29
                    Originally posted by billeau2 View Post

                    Guy had ATG level beard and Power... I heard (don't know) that Tyson was scared to death of him lol.
                    Forget steroids, boxer need to start smoking crack
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                    • #30
                      Originally posted by GhostofDempsey View Post
                      From '79 - '86 there was a long string of one-hit wonders being crowned HW champion. Weaver, Dokes, Page, Tubbs, Berbick, and a couple others.
                      Among the others, Big John Tate.

                      Wins the title vs Coetzee in October 1979, loses it against Weaver five months later in a shocker, gets knocked out by Berbick after three more months. Right there his slide to oblivion begins, culminating with a tragic end of life.

                      Interestingly, after the defeat against Berbick, Tate won all his next fights except the last - in 1988. Granted, not against stellar opposition. But usually we witness former champs getting beaten up by journeymen in the final segment of their career.

                      Still, Tate is a quintessential one-hit wonder.
                      Last edited by Tatabanya; 06-30-2022, 08:07 AM.
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