7. ANDY HOLLIGAN
This light-welterweight’s career peaked a week before Christmas in 1993 when he challenged the great Julio Cesar Chavez for the WBC title in Mexico. He was halted in five rounds, but then Chavez was a mere 88-0-1 at the time! Hard-punching Holligan was never quite the same after that, but he had won British and European titles to earn his Chavez chance.