Lesser known fighters you were a fan of...

[PBR Streetgang]

- -******* Gomez known in Mexico but not in the rest of the Western Nations.

His 1 rd shootout vs Jeffrey Hill one of the best 1 rds in history starting with getting floored hard early. Scraping off the canvas, Hill knocks him staggering from pillar to post...R.I.P...but suddenly in his last gasp, he pulls out a punch for the ages to KO poor Jeffrey who was otherwise punch perfect.

******* fasttracked to Margarito after SissyBoyFloyd ducked his career offer and put him away post haste. Fight may still be on youtube.

https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/1924

Damn, I had never heard of him. He fought some names tho. Helluva nickname too...

[PBR Streetgang]

I will add two more to my list:

Alex "The Destroyer" Stewart - I have no clue why I liked him so much as a kid but I did. I felt like he had good skills and could crack but man his chin was dented a few times and I feel like he wasn't always fully confident in himself. He had some wars with Holyfield, Foreman and Moorer but was blown out by Tyson and a few others.

Rocky Castellani: he was a fighter from the 40s and 50s and I only saw old grainy footage of him fight but he had a bar outside of Atlantic City and I ended up reading his biography. Not a power puncher but he dropped Sugar Ray Robinson. He fought the likes of Kid Gavilan, Joey Giardello, Bobo Olson, Gene Fullmer and the aforementioned Robinson. I was too young to drink in his bar when it was around but an older buddy used to drink there and said the guy was tough as nails and once busted the nose of a drunk disorderly patron about 50 years his junior.

[QueensburyRules]

I will add two more to my list:

Alex "The Destroyer" Stewart - I have no clue why I liked him so much as a kid but I did. I felt like he had good skills and could crack but man his chin was dented a few times and I feel like he wasn't always fully confident in himself. He had some wars with Holyfield, Foreman and Moorer but was blown out by Tyson and a few others.

Rocky Castellani: he was a fighter from the 40s and 50s and I only saw old grainy footage of him fight but he had a bar outside of Atlantic City and I ended up reading his biography. Not a power puncher but he dropped Sugar Ray Robinson. He fought the likes of Kid Gavilan, Joey Giardello, Bobo Olson, Gene Fullmer and the aforementioned Robinson. I was too young to drink in his bar when it was around but an older buddy used to drink there and said the guy was tough as nails and once busted the nose of a drunk disorderly patron about 50 years his junior.

- -Without the Stewerts fighting, there can be no great fighters.

Ralph Jones, a journeyman beat Robinson coming back from 3 year hiatus from heat stroke vs Maxim.

6 years later he climbed off the canvas multiple x in a beatdown by great Hungarian Lazlo Papp. Not the best, but Ralph top shelf all the way and forgotten today.

[JK1700]

Khaosai Galaxy
Ricardo Lopez
Humberto Gonzalez
Veeraphol Sahaprom

[smeck]

Lotta guys I'd see on "Tuesday Night Fights" and think, well here's a colorful fighter, and he has some talent. Then he'd fight the wrong guy, and then another, and disappear.

Rockin' Robin Blake
Jeremy Williams (more tattoos he got, the worse he fought)
"**** ****" Bogner
Mike Rossman
Steve Cunningham
Bonecrusher Smith (remember how he'd bug his eyes out with delight when he won...)

[ShoulderRoll]

I like watching Yuri Arbachakov fights on YouTube.

Love how straight he throws his right hand, that's my natural tendency as well which is what attracted me to his style I guess.

[The Old LefHook]

Bill Williams, Bob Roberts, John Johnson and Chuck Charlie.

[Anthony342]

Carlos Zarate
Joe Messi
Yoko Gushiken.

[QueensburyRules]

- -The big Messer was #1 heavy on boxrec for a year.

[PBR Streetgang]

Carlos Zarate
Joe Messi
Yoko Gushiken.

Ahhh, ol' Baby Joe Mesi. He brought the crowds to fights in Buffalo. I enjoyed him, action fighter and they guided his career pretty well. He had some names on his resume but they were usually past their prime (Izon, Williamson, 2 Gunz Barrett, etc). I kinda remember him getting a couple gift decisions but I don't recall with whom. Maybe Jirov?

Had he not had the brain clot, I wonder if he would have ever stepped up and faced someone legitimately dangerous to cash out. I guess we'll never know...