The Contender: Where are they now?

From an overall perspective, I'd say since the show: 1. Sergio Mora 2. Alfonso Gomez 3. K-9 Bundrage 4. Sakio Bika 5. Ishe Smith I think Gomez is the best of the bunch from a P4P perspective and is the most entertaining, but Mora has the win over Forrest for the WBC Light Middleweight belt and the draw over Mosley(in a terrible fight), so from an overall standpoint he has the edge despite being inactive for long stretches since the show. Gomez has been involved in a FotY candidate, gotten a lot of solid wins since the show, and retired Gatti in a great performance. He got dominated by Cotto(fought him coming off a serious illness and with a broken hand going into the fight), came back with solid wins over Jesus Soto-Karass and Jose Luis Castillo. Bundrage is not very good, he is physically strong and has a lot of heart, but has a weak chin and few skills. However, due to good timing he got a fight with a far-faded Cory Spinks, and won the IBF Light Middleweight belt, so he merits third. While relatively inactive since the show, Bika annihilated Peter Manfredo and gave Andre Ward arguably the toughest fight of his career. Lastly, Ishe might have been the most talented of the Contenders, but he's become basically a high-level gatekeeper since the show because of his overly defensive style. However, he's fought many rising prospects(Julio, Jacobs, Guerrero, Wolak) and given them all rough fights, beating Wolak.

You are right. Drummed those up real quick. Did so because K9 is current champ and Mora bores Us. Do you think Mora would beat Ishe in a 10 round rematch? Also, I'd love to see a season 5 at Heavyweight. Oh uea, I think Troy Ross will rise to be a top cruiserweight Mora is boring but successful Heavyweight could be really bad considering the current crop of top heavyweights we have.....then realizing the guys selected for the show would be below that level. there is a story that their fight on season 1, Mora was gassed at the end and that Ishe came on strong but they didn't show it in that manner. Ishe is slept on skill wise but shot himself in the foot by not staying the path and changing way too many aspects of his career

You are right. Drummed those up real quick. Did so because K9 is current champ and Mora bores Us. Do you think Mora would beat Ishe in a 10 round rematch? Also, I'd love to see a season 5 at Heavyweight. Oh uea, I think Troy Ross will rise to be a top cruiserweight

are they ever gonna do another season?? codrington vs bika was a very entertaining fight!

Fair enough point, he is more skilled but just awful to watch. agreed but I have to give credit to a fighter whose only loss has been to Viper and held his own against an albeit past prime Shane.

K9 might not be great, he is pretty average actually but for what he has to work with he deserves plenty of credit in my view for being able to win a world title. I'm not crapping on K9 I just think Mora overall has been the most successful. I like K9 but Mora beat a better version of Forrest than K9 did of Cory Spinks

theboxingempire.blogspot.com/2011/01/class-reunion-contender.html With Sergio Mora and Brian Vera squaring off this Friday, we asked: Where are the Contender stars now? How do you rate them? Will any make significant noise in 2011? We think they rate in order of the following: 5. Alfonso Gomez 4. Ishe Smith 3. Sergio Mora 2. K9 Bundrage 1. Troy Ross why would you rate K9 and Troy over Sergio? are you talking purely right now over the span of their careers?