Ma I Brought My Lunch Pail to Work

These are fighters that arent hall of famers but damn it they were the blue collar fighters, the tough SOBs that made life hard for everyone else around them

Jerry Quarry - tough boxer/puncher who had bad luck of being in the greatest era ever, he was still a tough SOB

Tony Galento - Two Ton is the epitome of a lunch pale fighter, basically brawled and tried to moida ya

George Chuvallo - in the Hall but damn this guy was a tough son of a bitch. Greatest chin ever possibly

Chuck Wepner - a Joe Frazier sparring partner, got battered by Liston but stuck around, the real life Rocky with his 15 round fight with Muhammad Ali

Oscar Bonavena - ok think hes inthe Hall also, but when Nat Fleischer says your the "strongest fighter he ever saw" you made the list. Add in the "Smoke" knockdowns and a late KO from Ali and he possibly beats Ali.

Ray Mercer - the ol' Sarge, threw major monkey wrench in the Tommy Morrisson hype train and fought well against Holyfield in a 96-94 UD for Holy.

Denny Moyer - First WBA Jr Middle champ, had a draw wit hRay Robinson, Robinson said he was one of the toughest men he ever fought.

Nate Campbell - was it just me or did Nate Campbell always just either come up a little to short, or barely squeek by with the W. Either way the man was a tough fighter who could box or stand in the kitchen and bang.

Micky Ward- no explenation needed

Arturo Gatti - ditto ^

Abe Simon - trained by Jack Johnson, hmm how can I sum him up in 5 words? "Big Country Sum ofa Bitch".

your adds

Surely Glen Johnson should be in there ?

nate needs to come off the list. While he was that type of fighter, the one fight where he put his hands down and got knocked the fuck out, should require him to be excluded from the list for being a complete dumbass.

Great grab Ali. Glen Johnson is a throwback lunchpail fighter. He just goes out and fights guys giving his all. Win or lose, you've seen his best every fight.

juan laporte and also gerry penalosa

all good adds, big DOH on Glencoffe but hey cant remember em all good add

Ray Mancini

Alfredo Escalera

Dennis Andries

Vito Antuofuermo might be the perfect pick. He hit like a lightweight, moved like a heavyweight and somehow won the middleweight championship.

Colin Jones.

Indian Red Ernie Lopez

Greg Haugen

Troy Dorsey

Here's a weird lunch pail guy. Jorge Paez.

Jose Luis Ramirez

Never knew Abe Simon was trained by Jack Johnson. Good going, Bird. Thanks for the info.

no problem yep Abe was discovered , trained, and amnaged by Johnson until Johnsons death

excellent topic bird and some good ones to start off with. ralph tiger jones.always came foward at you.thick neck with muscles in the back of it..fought many of the whos who in the welters and middles in the 50s..

dmar5143 wrote:

excellent topic bird and some good ones to start off with. ralph tiger jones.always came foward at you.thick neck with muscles in the back of it..fought many of the whos who in the welters and middles in the 50s..

That night Tiger Jones beat SRR a couple of things jumped out. Jones was built like a small Mike Weaver. Damned near bodybuilder muscular. Tough to figure out how he only weighed 160. The second was that he didn't squeak by. He PUMMELLED Ray.

great add Dmar and great points marble

Clinton Woods developed into being close to that type of fighter.

I feel like I should have a dozen to add, but I'm drawing blank.

I tend to forget about the past and think more of the present,,,,

Andrade?

I remember Woods pissing of Roys little rapathon at the Rose Garden

it was hilarious my soon to be step mom came over to watch her first fight that happened to be it, she was like "so do all boxers do this"

we all sadly said "no" (sadly in a bad way not a good way)

Paez ? lunch pail? is my memory of watching him on saturday afternoon network TV serving me wrong? Fill me in please Marble.

Canvas wrote:

Paez ? lunch pail? is my memory of watching him on saturday afternoon network TV serving me wrong? Fill me in please Marble.

As I said, he is a weird one. But he always showed up in shape, he fought EVERYBODY, he always gave a great effort.

Now I agree the dancing was more than a little odd for a "lunch pail" guy

Yea, you may be right- I was a teenager back then and I was dazzled by backflips and showboating. I remember terrific head movement and hand speed which told my young brain that he was a great talent. I could very well be wrong.

Canvas wrote:

Yea, you may be right- I was a teenager back then and I was dazzled by backflips and showboating. I remember terrific head movement and hand speed which told my young brain that he was a great talent. I could very well be wrong.

No your memory is accurate. That's the right guy. He didn't punch hard enough to handle truly top guys, nor did he have a great set of whiskers.

I am happy to admit he may well be too flashy to be a lunch pail guy.

Thanks, your explanation helped illuminate what I think you were originally getting at. I just got in from a Rende vous with an old friend. Pops were consumed. I'm slower than usual on the uptake (if that's possible)

I'll mention Glen Johnson again because he's fighting Tavoris Cloud very soon. I'm with him, win, lose or draw. Lunch pail figthers are probably the rule, not he exception today. If the very top fighters like MW, Klits, Pac and a few others are taken out, there's really not too much a difference between a man with little talent but an amazing will to fight. Long ago, guys like Henry Cooper, Scott Ledoux, Ron Lyle and Ron Stander fit this bill. The good thing about them is that they gave great figthers trouble. I'd say this. If either one of the Klits took on any of the 4 figthers I named (with the excepetion being Ledoux), it would probably be their toughest challenge. I don't know if I'd call Jerry Quarry a lunch pail figther. He was just in the wrong era.