Worst title runs of all time

[drablj]

rolando romero is a 2 division champion. the worst ever. he got a gift title shot at 135, lost by ko, got a gift shot at 140 while being unranked there, got a gift stoppage win, lost by ko then got a THIRD title shot at 147 while being unranked there. this dum ba ss got 3 title shots with zero good wins. meanwhile people here want other boxers to "earn their shot" when they already earned it. "who did he beat?"

don't be silly with listing mayweather, rahman, brook etc. these guys had at least one good fair win. saunders and romero had zero.

[AllHailKingFloyd]

Manny, lost against Singsurat, Bradley, King Floyd, Horn, Ugas.

[NihonJim]

In recent memory I have to say Deontay Wilder.

10 title defences and somehow he managed to fight NO relevant names of his era until losing to Fury

Where was Haymon digging up those opponents.

Joseph Parker was also pretty bad, his sparring partner Razvan Cojanu and Hughie Fury in two terrible fights before meekly surrendering his belt to AJ.

[Smash]

rolando romero is a 2 division champion. the worst ever. he got a gift title shot at 135, lost by ko, got a gift shot at 140 while being unranked there, got a gift stoppage win, lost by ko then got a THIRD title shot at 147 while being unranked there. this dum ba ss got 3 title shots with zero good wins. meanwhile people here want other boxers to "earn their shot" when they already earned it. "who did he beat?"

don't be silly with listing mayweather, rahman, brook etc. these guys had at least one good fair win. saunders and romero had zero.

i will never understand the rolly affect, the only thing i can think of is that someone wanted him as an opponent and pulled out all the stops, real shame for the people who got shafted along the way tho

[STREET CLEANER]

i will never understand the rolly affect, the only thing i can think of is that someone wanted him as an opponent and pulled out all the stops, real shame for the people who got shafted along the way tho

With KO power and his mouth he sells fights but his road has been buttered up. Most protected fighter I have ever seen, from refs stopping a fight or judges gifting him the fight he has all bases covered by unseen forces.

[Malvado]

Rolly is basically a overly backed version of Blair Cobbs. Mario Barrios also wouldn't be a world champion at a standard competitive division.

Jermall Charlo is said to be better than his brother, but he never took the challenges Jermell did at 154. Even at losses or controversial decisions against world champions, he ran it back and beat multiple top level fighters, shouldn't had moved up two divisions for a payday, would be a top player at middleweight today.

[Madison]

wilders wasnt great...

[SilverMiles]

Gary Russell Jr run as featherweight champion was near fraudulent. He fought decent opponents but hardly fought. It allowed Showtime to claim he was the longest reigning champion boxing which was technically true but didn't mean a whole lot.

And soon as he fought another athletic featherweight with some pop, he lost.

[Boxing 112]

but he at least beat 1 good fighter in porter. i know thats a low bar but saunders' title run had 0 good fighters. just complete bums. those are the kind of title runs i like to laugh at i mean analyze. im also looking for long title runs with maybe 1 or 2 top 10 fighters but mostly bums. i think artur grigorian had about 17 defenses and only beat 1 top 10 fighter who was ranked like 9th. my kind of guy

Title run I class as the defences made so not including Porter, those 3 for defences are trash af

[CubanGuyNYC]

I don’t know if you can rightfully call what guys like Ruiz and Romero had/have “runs.” John only defended the belt successfully twice. Romero even less. And the history of the sport is littered with countless short-term champions. Nash out gave a good example in Mike Tyson. I like Mike as much as everyone else, but, honestly, his reign was weak — one of the reasons why I’ve always said he’s overrated.