Worst guy to ever hold a 'world championship'

I thought of this when broadwayjoe told about the WAA world title. So name the worst fighters who have held some kind of world championship title, let it be WBF, WTF or XYZ title belt.

One lesser known heavyweight champ from recent years was Mika Kihlström who briefly held the WBB world heavyweight title. Other examples?

 

Lennox Lewis

- LOK

 

Mzonke Fana.

 

Mitch Greene held the WBS Heavyweight Title a few years back. The BS stood for "Boxing Syndicate" i believe

 

Jawaid Khaliq was a longtime IBO champ I believe at welterweight, he was not very good.

 

It's gotta be Ruiz. The guy was awful.

 

John Ruiz.

 

Not even close of the actually bad champs.

Mitch Green was an excellent example. Bert Cooper also held the WBF heavyweight title in the 1990s

 

Remember when they were talking about him fighting De La Hoya? LOL that was hilarious, and he couldn't even sell out a leisure centre in Nottingham ::

 

Didn't Bert take that vacant title from Richie Melito? I just thought of one: Crawford "The Terminator" Grimsley.

Crawford Grimsley held the vacant IBA and WBU heavyweight titles which he won from Geriatric George Foreman, who was nearly 48 at the time. Edit: In fact, he did not. I remembered it wrong.

Crawford next fought Jimmy Thunder and was subsequently separated from his senses when Thunder gave him a belt of his own. Total time of the bout, including the referee's 10 count---which seemed a bit long, 13 seconds. ::::::

Crawford was out from the first punch of the fight, a screaming right hand.:bears:

 

Whoops, my bad, Crawford lost the Foreman fight too.

However he WAS the WBC FECARBOX champion at one time as well as the WBA Fedelatin heavyweight titleholder, so Crawford is still my choice.

 

Some guy named Cristian Sanavia actually held the "widely known" WBC Super Middleweight title for a second or two in 2004. He had previously lost to Morrade Hakkar.

:shit:

 

Audley Harrison won the WBF World Heavyweight Title.

It doesn't get worse than that.

 

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in all seriousness.. when I clicked on this thread I was going to type that:bears:

 

Good one! He won them by knocking out Richel Hersisia, who recently lost to ancient Ray Mercer:atu:

I still think my opening post is the winner, though a sanctioning body called WBB might be cheating::

A guy named Dirk Wallyn was also heavyweight champ in this decade, recognized by IBU

 

we've had our fair share of IBO, WBU and WBF champions, harsh to single out Jawaid as the worst of them. He was frindge top 10, and i've always thought it was a bit of a shame that he just completely disappeared on something like a 20 fight winning streak.

having him talk to Vernon Forrest on the phone was ludicrous.....only topped by Takaloo (a WBU champion) sticking up 'wanted' posters all over Margate with Oscar's face on ::


Anthony Farnell gets my vote. He may not be the very worst, but it was the way he actually considered himself to be a world champion. He cried after he won the title with all the 'dreamt of this moment all my life' rhetoric as if he just dethroned a prime Thomas Hearns.....rather than Ruben Groenwold.

 

I know, I figured I'd save you the time. ::

 

If we are including all of the various "title belts, then yes. But if we are talking about WBC, IBF, WBA titlists, Ruiz definately rates among the worst. Getting his ass handed to him not once, but twice by former Middleweights is about as embarrassing as it gets.

 

Joppy beat some asian years ago, who I thought was the worst title holder I ever saw.

 

Thats a decent point..I hated farnell and his contingent, he managed to achieve less than Khaliq. Michael Jennings was/is a WBU champ, surely he's down there with the worst, losing to young muttley is a low water-mark as championship credentials go.

 

Andrew Ganigan W.A.A.

 

Mitch Green was a good fighter, as was Bert Cooper (who should have stayed at cruiserweight) and I don't recall Mitchell ever being stopped in the amateur or pro ranks.

Green was a National Champion in the amateurs, and multi time NY Golden Glove and Intercity Champion, so he could fight a bit, but his biggest enemy was himself.

Elisha Obed stands out in my mind as one of the worst, though he built up a huge knockout record, much like another powerful, yet unskilled current champion, Edwin Valero, who also gets my vote as one of the worst.

Mark my words: the walls are going to fall in on Valero much as they did Obed.

 

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:hammert:

 

William Joppy. I am sure there are worse with all the belts out there, but William Joppy ia the worst and he had 8 defenses so ::::

Joppy is horrid.

 

the current IBF super feather revolving door, St Clair-Fana-Klaasen-Baloyi

 

Its gotta be Maussa

 

:atu::atu:By that logic Vivian Harris.

 

Ganigan was a huge puncher, and he obliterated a prime Sean O'Grady, and dropped Arguello. If he was around today he'd be a top 3-5 lightweight. Him and Valero would have been fun to watch.

 

Those are not world titles, though.