Average Joes who briefly achieved greatness.

[Bookkeeper]

Arturo Gatti was the ultimate average joe

[Hulk]

Lou Del Valle for droppin Roy Jones Jr.

[mrodub]

Fritzie Zivic’s beating henry Armstrong and Max Schmeling’s ko of joe louis were both huge and against far superior fighters

[Spicoli]

Ross purity 'TKO' Klitschko
Steve Little W.12 Michael Nunn
Darryl Pinckney KO 3 Junior Jones
Billy Backus TKO 4 Jose Napoles 1

[BIG H]

Danny Williams for beating Mike Tyson

[holmcall]

Lonnie Smith for icing Champ Billy Costello

[CGM]

Lonnie Smith for icing Champ Billy Costello

Lightning Lonnie!! Interesting call. I watched that fight on TV with a few friends, and as I recall he just devastated Costello, he was really up for that fight. We all thought Smith was amazing. Do you remember at the end of the telecast, him yelling out "I am gonna be the greatest!!"? Then I never really heard much from him again. But I sure remembered that one fight.

[holmcall]

Lonnie Smith for icing Champ Billy Costello

Lightning Lonnie!! Interesting call. I watched that fight on TV with a few friends, and as I recall he just devastated Costello, he was really up for that fight. We all thought Smith was amazing. Do you remember at the end of the telecast, him yelling out "I am gonna be the greatest!!"? Then I never really heard much from him again. But I sure remembered that one fight.

I cover it in my new book so I don't want to say too much about it except that it appears under a chapter entitled, "Inspiration." Smith never did much after that monster fight.

[holmcall]

Mike Rossman who beat Victor Galindez.

[holmcall]

And Murray Southerland who I think beat Ernie Singletary for a world title.

[El Kabong]

James Buster Douglas
Kirkland Laing
Drake Thazdi

[Trainer Monkey]

Jerry Quarry
Bennie Brisco
Tex Cobb
Chuck Wepner

[CGM]

Jerry Quarry
Bennie Brisco
Tex Cobb
Chuck Wepner

The original idea do the thread was average guys who briefly achieved greatness by winning against great fighters, not average guys who achieved fame by losing badly against great fighters. But that's OK.

p.s. I like how Cobb Went 18-0-1 with one no contest in his last 20 pro fights. Haha. The no contest was really a ko for Cobb except that according to boxrec both fighters tested positive for cocaine after the fight. LOL

[saad79]

Lonnie Smith did look awsome in the Costello fight. I remember Bill being very overconfident during the pre-fight interview. That may have contributed to Lonnie's excellent showing, or maybe Smith reallly fought a great fight. Then, in his next fight Smith ran away from Rene Arrendondo before being ko'd by one shot. He was never the same after that. He should have beat Arrendondo, who had power but a bad defense and no chin.

[Trainer Monkey]

Jerry Quarry
Bennie Brisco
Tex Cobb
Chuck Wepner

The original idea do the thread was average guys who briefly achieved greatness by winning against great fighters, not average guys who achieved fame by losing badly against great fighters. But that's OK.

p.s. I like how Cobb Went 18-0-1 with one no contest in his last 20 pro fights. Haha. The no contest was really a ko for Cobb except that according to boxrec both fighters tested positive for cocaine after the fight. LOL

Quarry I figured since he fought all of the best
Same with Brisco
Cobb for the abuse he delivered to Shavers
Wepner for knocking down Ali
All of those guys were strictly bread and butter guys,who stepped it up on the big stage,but just came up short