The last good White American champion......

[Cloud]

Probably Pavlik, and then Morrison. Paulie was a good fighter for a while.

I think the MMA boom had a big effect and most went into that. To be fair, there's some pretty good to all time great White MMA fighters from America. Someone brought up a good point about the popularity of wrestling in small town America.

[The Big Dunn]

Andre Ward!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bluebeam]

Well it was Algeri wasn’t it? But I guess the last white guy with any real momentum was kelly pavlik. It must’ve been fun on here whilst he was active. I could only imagine the reaction when he got schooled by bhop

it wasnt algeri. he made 0 defenses of the title he won by controversial decision.

[bluebeam]

Andre Ward!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in that case he is the greatest white fighter of all time.

[FrankieClutch]

Kelly Pavlik. Wish Alcohol never ruined his career, there were plenty of good fights for him at 160

[Mexican_Puppet]

Kelly Pavlik was a beast in his prime. He was an enigma, a wrecking machine. Really underrated because of out-the-ring issues.

Kelly Pavlik was a bum without skills and defense.

He was overrated by those wins against Taylor but that guy was prettty normal and only had one win against a good rival in Taylor

[pillowfists98]

Pavlik was a good champion. Not a great one though, Hopkins exposed him badly.

[Nay_Sayer]

The Ghost...

[Gigantes]

Yuri Foreman?

[chrisJS]

in that case he is the greatest white fighter of all time.

You think Ward is greater than the following?

Harry Greb
Willie Pep
Benny Leonard
Gene Tunney
Billy Conn
Tommy Loughran
Mickey Walker
Barney Ross
Jimmy McLarnin
Tony Canzaoneri
Abe Attell
Lou Ambers
Stanley Ketchel
Carmen Basilio
Terry McGovern
Ad Wolgast
Sammy Angott
Rocky Marciano
Jack Dempsey
Jack Britton
Tommy Ryan

Just to name a few strictly from the US? If so you either don't know who they are or are very biased. They all have far superior legacies than Ward. That's just off the top of the head there's many more with better careers and legacies.

Pep & Greb are in most top 5's ever. Leonard is in most top 10's. Tunney, Ross, McLarnin are often in top 20's and a lot of the others would be in most top 50's. Ward wouldn't even sniff the top 100.