Yeah, a real Gabby Jay/Glass Joe, a palooka, an easy KO…There are guys who are regular tomato cans, kind of like the jobbers in pro wrestling.
I take it a “tomato can” is a boxer who is easy to beat, such that a prospective champion can fight a succession of them to accumulate an apparently impressive record. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Is there a general question here?
There are no tomato cans in pro boxing. It’s a Darwinian arena, and if a boxer has been around for a while, he’s demonstrated some ability, even if he’s lost every fight up to date.
You may easily defeat such an opponent, but should you encounter him again in the future, he may well give you a serious ass kicking.
It happens.
Aren’t they in aisle seven, next to the beans?
In fact most promoters and managers keep extensive lists of fighters and will contact these stepping stones to good records for a fight as the necessity comes up. Often a manager will go to the promoter with the fight set up once he has found the correct patsy or even a fighter that will lie down.
My father had been a fighter for awhile before he got into other pursuits, and we used to have a number of members of that fraterity regularly visit our home. Some were professional losers. Most of those accepted their roll while a few of the others thought they really had a shot.
What was always fun for me as a child was asking them what their records would be for that fight. Many of them let me make up their win records for the before-the-fight announcement.