Unprotected fighters

[SN!PER]

There's a lot of talk about cherry pickers and overprotected fighters. But the opposite problem occurs when a fighter is overmatched against veterans early in his career. Who were some of the most unprotected fighters in boxing?

[SlySlickSmooth]

Derrick Findley

[#1Assassin]

garcia, hopkins, dawson, toney.

[Beercules]

Does Glen Tapia count? He was certainly fed to Kirkland

[CTC JOHNNY]

Hammering Hank Lundy!!! Carlos Molina

[Hougigo]

Name almost any PR prospect

[Ivansmamma]

Pete rademacher fighting for the heavyweight crown in his first profight.

[Russian Crushin]

We know who these guys are, fighters that will fight anyone and are usually most ducked

Guys like Kovalev, Golovkin, Ruslan, Molina, Maidana, Bradley, Donaire, Salido, etc

[richardt]

Unprotected:
Justin Fortuna
Sergey Kovalev
Juan Carlos Burgos
Abner Mares
Rigo
Giovanni Segura

Protected fighters:
Jesse Magdaleno
Jose Benavidez
Most of the Olympians

[Citizen Koba]

Darnell Boone. If someone had actually managed this guys career he might well have been a strapholder.

The kid started boxing basically by accident at the age of (off the top of my head) 19 or so, when there was no-one else to take his kid brother to the boxing gym. He had some ability as a streetfighter, and decided to give the sport a tryout when he got to the gym. Apparently his first (or one of his first) spars was Kell Pavlik - he got beat up, but also fought well enough to grab the attention of the gyms coaches.

He's since fought a who's who of top prospects all the way from LMW to LHW with a reasonable degree of success, usually taking fights on at just a week or twos notice.

His resume reads like a who's who of future stars all the way from 154 - 175 and his accomplishments include KOing Adonis Steevenson and giving both Andre Ward and Sergei Kovalev their only pro KDs.

He has a kinda unorthadox 'homemade' style with a lot of movement and the ability to land heavy punches from unexpected angles that makes him dangerous to almost anyone, but with some some refinement and proper matching, Boone could well have achieved a decent measure of success.

Boone is the ultimate gatekeeper across 3 (even 4) divisions, but as they say, he 'coulda been a contender'.