Anybody remember Melvin Foster? Back in the '90s, a couple of magazines were touting him to be an up-and-coming prospect off his thumping of Mitch "Blood" Green. A fight or two after that, this tubby undersized heavyweight got molested and permanently derailed by a totally shot Trevor Berbick. The next time I remember seeing Foster after that, he was saying, "My jaw is bwoke" while getting thumped in a losing effort. He wasn't expected to set the world on fire, but when he went down, the stoppages kept coming---perhaps long after they should have. Another stinker was Marion "Jackhammer" Wilson. This guy could not crack an egg with a real jackhammer. Still, he had one redeeming feature---a chin of concrete covered by the same type of cast-iron that they make skillets from. He lost to them all, but he lost in style. I think he managed a draw with Ray Mercer on the same card that saw Tommy Morrison draw with Ross Puritty. Who are your favorite palookas from yesteryear? Stories are a plus!!! They may not have been winners in the ring, but they were entertaining and gave the fans some memorable times.
When I was a little kid I saw Howard Cosell have his meltdown during the Larry Holmes / Tex Cobb fight and then Tex's memorable self-effacing interview afterwards. It always brought a smile to my face whenever I saw Tex in his various later movie appearances.
Basically any white heavyweight from the 70's or very early 80's- guy like Cobb, Stander, Le Doux, Boudreaux, Wepner, Bobick, Chuvalo, probably even Cooney, with 2 exceptions being Quarry, Coetzee. Oh how things have changed :crafty:
Bigfoot didn't really stand out to me, but Frankie Swindell did---particularly because of the way he was built. The dude was a hogfat dependable trailhorse. He was a heavyweight Reggie Strickland towards the end though.
Cobb is the ultimate human anvil... his fights with Shavers and an aged Ken norton are wildly entertaining and showcase his inhuman ability to absorb savage punches without a blink
