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Green Lantern asked in SportsBoxing · 9 years ago

Who's your favourite fighter than never won a title? and Why?

Mine Is Jimmy Young.Because (personally).I thought he beat Ali,Ken Norton,Eanie Shavers(second fight) and George Foreman.

Who's your favourite fighter and why?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Great question Big Green for me it has to be Howard Davis Jr. Davis won an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and was voted the most outstanding boxer in the Olympics not a small feet considering who all fought in those games Sugar Ray Leonard, Leon Spinks, Michael Spinks, Aaron Pryor, Leo Randolph all Gold medal winners. Howard had two shots at the title but came up short twice. I was shocked he was a pure boxer not great power but enough to keep you honest. When people talk about hand speed his name never comes up I guess because he was never a great pro but as far as hand speed there was no one faster.Howard had everything a fighter could dream of in terms of ability he just was not good enough as a pro.You know the fight I all ways wanted to see was Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Howard Davis Jr. wow you would have needed a time laps photography camera to see the punches. If you missed him go to you tube and look him up one of the best pure boxers who has ever lived.

  • Charley Burley

    Burley was never granted a title shot by any of the welterweight and middleweight champions of that era .Burley was ranked 39th on Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years.

    USA California State middleweight title-But never giving a chance to fight for a major title

    Colored Middleweight Title-Amongst the black murders row only

    Colored Welterweight Title-Amongst the black murders row only

  • 9 years ago

    Sam Langford: Sam Langford was born on March 4, 1883 in Weymouth Fall, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was known as the "Boston Bonecrusher", "Boston Terror," and infamous "Boston Tar Baby.” Standing only 5 ft. 7 inches and weighing 185 lbs, he fought greats from the lightweight division right up to the heavyweights, beating many champions in the process. However, he was never able to secure a world title for himself and is regarded by many as the greatest titleless boxer of all-time. He was enshrined in the Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1955, the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990, and Ring magazine founder Nat Fleischer rated Langford as one of the ten best heavyweights of all-time.

  • Mark
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Ken Norton.

    And no, pulling Leon Spinks' WBA belt out of a trash can doesn't count.

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  • Matt
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    George Chuvalo, he is the definition of a class act and when he was in the ring he was afraid of nobody. There is no quit in this guy.

  • 9 years ago

    off the top of my head, herol graham. although he was boring in 'trying' to win the title from mccallum, he was outstanding against jackson (up to the point where he got kayoed). and kalambay always seemed to have his number.

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