Fighters that were changed

[The Iron Man]

Barry McGuigan after the Young Ali fight.

[Migs]

Naseem Hamed fell off the face of the earth after Barrera embarassed him. Hatton can be argued too after the Mayweather KO.

[Froch You]

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Jose Luis Castillo after he fought Diego Corrales
Jesus Chavez after he fought Leavander Joshnson!

More like Corrales after he fought Castillo

[BennyST]

Someone mentioned that Leonard was better after the first Duran fight. I think Duran was never really the same again after the second Leonard fight. He was going to retire after that fight and the humiliation of it all. I think a combination of things led to him never really reaching the same degree of intensity, aggression and skill. It was age and the weights he reached in between fights catching up with him. He was still better than most fighters can ever imagine after it and did some freakish things but never really regained the utter mad, and controlled skill that he had up to and including that fight.

[BennyST]

Naseem Hamed fell off the face of the earth after Barrera embarassed him. Hatton can be argued too after the Mayweather KO.

The first one is very true but the second....that's crazy! He's had one fight after it and he won it. He also has a huge fight coming up soon as well. God that fight gets overrated in terms of doing Hatton in. Before that fight he was an amazing fighter with amazing stamina and a great chin, now he's just ok with a weak chin and suspect stamina and is also completely shot and not the same fighter?

[BennyST]

Hagler after the Antuofermo draw. That's the fight that turned him into a killer.

Nahh, he was changed over a long period of time. A lot of BS, some dodgy decisions and no titles shots turned him into an aggressive skilled boxer, and the Ant fight was just the icing on the cake.

[Silencers]

Lamon Brewster hasn't been the same since the Lyakhovich fight.

I'm not sure if Curry was not the same after the Honeyghan fight, I attribute it more to the McCallum loss, he was fighting a very good fight against McCallum before getting caught with that left hook, I think that was the fight that really took it out of him.

[TheGreatA]

Floyd Patterson after the Sonny Liston fights. He became more of a boxer and would've probably had a better chance against Liston with that style (atleast he wouldn't have been humiliated twice in the first).


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Someone mentioned that Leonard was better after the first Duran fight. I think Duran was never really the same again after the second Leonard fight. He was going to retire after that fight and the humiliation of it all. I think a combination of things led to him never really reaching the same degree of intensity, aggression and skill. It was age and the weights he reached in between fights catching up with him. He was still better than most fighters can ever imagine after it and did some freakish things but never really regained the utter mad, and controlled skill that he had up to and including that fight.

I think it is a combination of what you pointed out here, but also the fact that he did two things he moved up in wieght and fought better opposition to. It is not uncommon for fighters to move up at age 28 like duran did, and fight great fighters up to age 32 like duran did, but what is uncommon is that his fans ignore the fact that almost every other great fighter including most top lightweights have moved up around the same age that Duran did. Not many had as many fights or where as dominant over a decade at lightweight, but the current fighter also did not have the extremly "bum-heavy" padded list of fights (30+) that where of records and fighers not qualiied to be a sparring partner, yet alone fight for the champions ship.

I think Duran did change due to the fallout from quiting. True, but even peak duran would not beat Leoanrd if he boxed, or hearns at 154, or Hagler, maybe he would beat Benitez at 154. No duran simply at lightweight ws a true great, but not that great as he moved up, but we dont ever hear Duran fans acknowledge other lightweights (whitacker,dlh, Mosley, Robinson, Maywether, Armstrong,) all may not have won as many fghts at lightweght but did move up more successfully.