Fighters Who Weren't The Same After A Certain Fight

Jeff Lacy after Calzaghe fight Razor Ruddock after Tyson fight Sam Peter after Vitali Klitschko fight Michael Grant after Lennox Lewis fight Roy Jones after Tarver II fight Victor Ortiz after Josesito Lopez Sadam Ali after Jaime Munguia

Razor Ruddock after the Lewis fight

Mike Perez after the Magomed fight. He could never recover mentally from what happened.

Everyone after Mayweather 2007. He made them multimillionaires, lazy as F (apart from Canelo), and retired due the winning the maylottery

Mayweather wasn’t the same after Pacquiao. His cherry picking got worse and worse after PAC did a # on him. Berto, then Mcgregor, and then Tenshin. Cherry picking got more awful every time. Never again did Floyd want to box an admirable opponent.

Exactly what I was going to post. It was almost like you could see the risk v reward cogs turning in his brain while he was in the ring. Yeah exactly that bro you worded it much better than myself. It was sad to see for sure.

Cotto after his Margarito loss.... have a look at before and after photos...he went from having 0 tattoos to having full body and neck deck out.

Where do you pinpoint Mike Tyson's decline? I wonder if it wasn't that slugfest with Ruddock? Within a month he's been charged with rape and was obviously never the same fighter. Prison. Not any one fight.

Where do you pinpoint Mike Tyson's decline? I wonder if it wasn't that slugfest with Ruddock? Within a month he's been charged with rape and was obviously never the same fighter.

Camacho after Rosario And Jones Jr I'd say wasn't the same after coming down in weight from the Ruiz fight. Vargas after Trinidad That's a big one. He really changed after that fight.

Eubank sr after the tragic Michael watson fight, he lost that killer instinct understandably. Exactly what I was going to post. It was almost like you could see the risk v reward cogs turning in his brain while he was in the ring.

Taylor Chavez - dude literally got brain damage from the fight Broner Maidana- AB has been fighting scared against big punches ever since that fight it mentally hurt him and his pride Cotto Margarito- he slow down a good pace after that fight before he was a more aggressive fighter Clottey Pacquiao- his big chance and he blew it he didn't take much punishment but mentally he was never there after the loss No he didn't.

Fernando Vargas after the Trinidad fight.

Pacquiao after Margarito (although Pacquiao won a shutout victory and should be a stoppage win, he never really recovered mentally from this fight; he looked dramatically different in his subsequent fights; still remembers and acknowledges up to now that Margarito was the one who hits him the hardest; Margarito weighed 165 lbs fight night vs Pacquiao who weighed 148 lbs ) Darchinyan after Donaire 1 Donaire after Rigondeaux

Chocolalito knock out loss to Rungsavai was devastating coming from a fighter who reigned the P4P list for years. He ;literally disappeared

After 2 rounds looks like Hurd after Williams.

Tim Austin after getting stopped by Rafael Marquez Abner Mares after getting KOd by Jhonny Gonzalez Junior Jones after Kennedy McKinney Jermaine Taylor after Kelly Pavlik.

for some reason this fight just crossed my mind and I thought of this thread, want to add it: Antoine Douglas v Avandil Khurtsizde Douglas was just a prospect, so "never the same" probably doesn't apply in the same way as it would to some of these other good fighters who we knew what their best at it was obvious.. but anyway, he went from prospect to shot in one night after that one. Meanwhile Khurtsizde probably rose up the ranks of the Russian mob off the win and is now doing 35 yrs in prison, so I guess both were never the same

Taylor Chavez - dude literally got brain damage from the fight Broner Maidana- AB has been fighting scared against big punches ever since that fight it mentally hurt him and his pride Cotto Margarito- he slow down a good pace after that fight before he was a more aggressive fighter Clottey Pacquiao- his big chance and he blew it he didn't take much punishment but mentally he was never there after the loss

GGG after Canelo war !!