Who are some of the fighters that....

[punchers_chance]

Kingsley Ikeke. He knows how to fight tall and has a fantastic jab. I think he has a chance at beating any middleweight in the world right now.

[Yogi]

Would give the top fighters of their time a tough time, but would always end up losing a decision.

...the fighters that would be greats had they been in another era.

Top 3???

There's one old-time Bantamweight that immediately popped into my mind when I read this question, and that's the most unfortunate, Frankie Burns, whose very often classified as one of the very, very best Bantamweights in history to have never won a world title. That wasn't for lack of trying, though, as you can see he reserved more than a couple of opportunities to win a championship;

ND-10 Johnny Coulon (Paperweight Championship at 115 lbs.)

WNWS-10 Abe Attell (Featherweight Championship, which Burns needed to win by KO if he was to be declared the champion)

L-20 Johnny Coulon (Bantamweight Championship)

LNWS-10 Johnny Kilbane (Featherweight Championship)

D-10 Johnny Coulon (Bantamweight Championship)

D-20 Kid Williams (Bantamweight Championship)

L-20 Pete Herman (Bantamweight Championship)

LTKO-5 Johnny Kilbane (Featherweight Championship)


That's eight opportunities to win a world title and each & every one of them pitted Burns against an eventual hall-of-famer. That's tough going, especially when the judges aren't seeing things your way and rob you of the decision, as was reportedly the case in Burns title fights with both Coulon (L-20) and Williams (D-20).

[TheEvilSaint]

I'm surprised none of the Gatti fans showed up yet :-)

as much as i love gatti, he fought two p4p fighters (ODLH and PBF) and got his ass whooped from pillar to post.

[onetwopunch]

There was this guy named Jose Luis Lopez, who lost to James Page and Ike Quartey, this guy had a chin of iron and hit like a middleweight, slow as hell dangerous. He gave James Page and Ike all they could handle..and lost to close decisions.

[Tha Greatest]

What about Ricardo Vargas?

[{BrownBomber}]

There was this guy named Jose Luis Lopez, who lost to James Page and Ike Quartey, this guy had a chin of iron and hit like a middleweight, slow as hell dangerous. He gave James Page and Ike all they could handle..and lost to close decisions.

Ya thats the pot head Mexican, guy had tons of power he almost had ike knocked out. he was on a come back but dont know what happened. this guy hit so hard he is the only guy to actually knock Campas on his ass acouple of times. Something that Vargas,Tito and Delahoya didnt do.

[Tha Greatest]

Verno Phillips and Glenn Johnson should be top 2.

[.::|ULTIMATE|::.]

Jose Luis Lopez needed a better trainer and more dedication... but in reality i think was his lack of drive that caused him never to be anything big.

[BLOODSHED]

Emmanuel Augustus... truly. That was Mayweathers toughest fight he said.

Would give the top fighters of their time a tough time, but would always end up losing a decision.

...the fighters that would be greats had they been in another era.

Top 3???

[Tha Greatest]

Emmanuel Augustus... truly. That was Mayweathers toughest fight he said.

Mayweather bull****s to much.

Castillo was his toughest fight which he LOST.