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    James Buster Douglas
    Kirkland Laing
    Drake Thazdi

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    Jerry Quarry
    Bennie Brisco
    Tex Cobb
    Chuck Wepner

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey View Post
    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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CGM View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Trainer Monkey View Post
    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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
    James Buster Douglas
    Kirkland Laing
    Drake Thazdi

    Still not sure how he beat Toney , he was awful against Hill.??

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    Ron Stander iced Ernie Shavers in 1970!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Lord Al View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
    James Buster Douglas
    Kirkland Laing
    Drake Thazdi
    Still not sure how he beat Toney , he was awful against Hill.??
    But then he beat John Scully in John's wrorse career performance, Drake caught guys when they were down and seized the opportunitiy.

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    Carlos Baldomir?

    Not sure about that one.

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    Sharmba Mitchell....like Kirkland Laing he always had potential but very seldom lived up to it under the bright lights.

    Monte Barrett after he beat Dominick Guinn and lost a close decision to Joe Mesi looked pretty good.

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    Leotis Martin, who was agreat amatuer fighter, iced Sonny Liston, but injured his retiina and that was that. He recently passed away. But had he not incurred that injury, who knows what h could have accomplished. It was his one very big day in the Sun.

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