15 minutes of fame!

Not sure how popular/relevant Randy Turpin was before or after his fights w/ SRR. Going by his resume, he certainly didn't appear to deserve a title shot, but I'm not enough of a historian to know whether or not he was considered a contender going in.

Reign lasted two months, never did much of anything after that

 

Juan Valenzuela

Ricardo Williams Jr.

Francisco Bojado

 

I agree that the officiating was horrible - and the ref for that fight is one of the worst "big time" officials ever. But I remember having Juarez ahead at the end of the fight, as ugly as it was. Not that I dispute any card going the other way, just don't remember being outraged over the scoring more so than the officiating.

However, I thought Raheem got jerked against Freitas.

 

Is Bronco McKart a one-hit wonder? Winky Wright liked fighting him.

 

Are you including Williams and Bojado as one-hit wonders? It was Rubio that knocked off Bojado...and I don't think Williams Jr. or Bojado had anything that could be called a hit.

 

Tony Ayala got a free 15 minutes after getting out of the slammer.

 

Eidy Moya.
Eric Aiken.
When all is said and done, Torres will likely be a one hit wonder, and he didn't even win that fight !

 

Hector Acero-Sanchez helped ruin what was plans for a super bantamweight unification bout between Kennedy McKinney and Tracy Patterson, both of whom lost their belts in a span of less than a week in what was supposed to be routine title defenses.

Patterson lost to Acero-Sanchez, who struggled in two fights with ancient Daniel Zaragoza, drawing the first time and losing the second.

Keeping it in the Dominican family, Julio Cesar Green captured a belt under the strangest of circumstances - one where the defending champion was a late replacement for another. Then-titlist William Joppy accepted the fight on about 10 days notice after a detached retina forced undefeated titlist Lonnie Bradley to withdraw. Joppy was out of shape, broke his hand early in the fight... and still got screwed on the cards. Green lost to Joppy in his very next fight and other than receiving a few more undeserved title shots (including a rubber match w/ Joppy a year later) never amounted to much

 

OK Double, we get it... Eidy Moya ::

 

Mike Anchondo

O´Neil Bell

 

Julio Cesar Green's one I'd forgotten about.

 

Turpin had a ton of potential but was derailed by lots of personal problems. Everything sort of came together against Robinson.

I don't think he was thought of by Robinson to be much of a threat though.

He beat lots of very good European fighters during his time, but didn't do much else on the World title stage, outside of a loss to Bobo Olson.

All the Turpin Brothers were pretty popular fighters on the British level.

 

Aaron "Superman" Davis dusting off Mark Breland...... Davis went on to have a couple of good fights, but none in which he won! Meldrick Taylor jacked him, too.

 

Yep. Even though he technically got a few 'W's everybody knew he was lucky. Santana's "stock" never really went up because of the wins.

 

Tomas Molinares getting a ton of press for showing up in the U.S. from Columbia with nearly a 90+% KO ratio, knocking out Marlon Strarling on HBO after the bell. A late shot.........but impressive in it's own way, as Marlon had never really been hurt in his career (before or after this fight), let alone put into a temporary coma.

At first he was awarded the title, then he was stripped of it............and he just went back to Columbia and disappeared.

 

How 'bout Fermin Chirino beating Matthew Hilton? Chirino was a trialhorse at the time.

As a side note, I had the chance to spar with Fermin Chirino at the old Times Square Gym in NYC back in '90. He was a bumbs bum! I was one of Hilton's biggest fans and I was going to avenge my boy.

Needless to say, at 18 years old, Chirino whupped my ass like a rented mule and did not break a sweat. He toyed with me the whole "TWO" rounds before I was exhausted as hell after thinking I was in good shape! Anyway, that was the day I started respecting any and every boxer I saw on television OR the gym for that matter.

 

And fittingly in enough, in a fight that technically doesn't count. The dreaded no-contest - boxing's answer to annulled marriages.

 

How about Willy Salazar beating Danny Romero?

 

No way.

Ruddock had defeated Weaver, Bonecrusher and Dokes, all of whom could still fight a bit before he fought Mike.

The Smith and Dokes KO's were brutal and nationally televised.

I knew he was tailor-made for Lennox, and enjoyed a nice payday at the window at Caesar's sports book on that one.,

Ruddock was the most avoided heavyweight of his era.

 

Breidis Prescott

 

The referee in that particular fight, Robert Gonzales, is no longer officiating Andrew.

 

Don't know if Green quite counts, didn't he come very close to dethroning Byron Mitchell years later?

 

This is what people who have no boxing experience don't understand.

Basically, even the pro boxers you call bums etc would beat the absolute fuck out of you.

It's what makes me laugh about tough guys thinking they'd stand a chance against a pro fighter. I know a retired featherweight with a losing record who would absolutely batter the average hard man with ease.

 

Roid's daddy Antonio Tarver.

 

Tarver's big KO wins came in rematches with Harding and Jones, though, not the first time out.

Though if there was a thread about boxers who reversed losses in rematches, Tarver would have quite an impressive list with those two and Johnson.

 

And would that thread be solely for fighters who have reversed losses in rematches having previously "arrived with a KO" into the consciousness of the American boxing public???:finger::kick::kick::kick:

 

Willy Wise...upset Julio Cesar Chavez and got an HBO date from it against Shane Mosley, which he lost...eventually rematched Chavez, in which he then lost.

 

You're either trying too hard or not hard enough.

 

The title isn't One Hit Wonders. The title is 15 minutes of fame. Williams and Bojado both had their 15 minutes of fame due to their Olympic success and then quickly faded away.

 

Yeah, but signing with big time promoters out of the amateurs and getting on HBO and Showtime a repeated number times isn't exactly coming out of obscurity...unless the "obscurity" is amateur boxing.

Ricardo Williams Jr. signed a huge bonus with Dibella and was on HBO his first pro fight...that's not obscurity.