Biggest Wasted Potential?

[MalevolentBite]

Who out of these fighters had the greatest potential but due to outside or internal influences stopped their career from being better than it was?

I am not going to including fighters that did a crime and got sentence to a long prison sentence or someone who got into a freak accident.

1. Zab Judah
2. Jeff Lacy
3. Deontay Wilder
4. Leon Spinks
5. Adrian Broner
6. Andy Ruiz
7. Allen Green
8. Jermall Charlo
9. Kelly pavlik
10. Ray Mercer
11. James DeGale
12. Victor Ortiz
13. Gary Russell Jr.
14. Andre Berto
15. Abner Mares

If you think none of these names fit the bill. Submit your boxer.

Update 3/10/2025. After reading comments. I have added these boxers to the list.

Andrew Golota
Demetrius Andrade
Mikey Garcia
Vernon Forrest

Update 7/11/25

Gervonte Davis - I think he's going to prison this time.

Freak accident I am including illness or getting murdered because it was something out of someone's comtrol.

[MalevolentBite]

If you take a universal view, then yeah, dying young is the universe wasting potential.

But I think The Universe is playing its 'long game' so it doesn't care.

Seriously speaking . . .

I wonder if there was a connection between the onset of pugilistic dementia (early brain damage) and having a difficult time with surrviving surgery back then.

I am not including that on this post. We will be here all day. Everyone here is here because of their own bad decisions.

I am not including people who died young, got killed or false convictions.

[QueensburyRules]

You know damn well 'Bama Wilder wasn't going to be running on the streets in traffic.

I think the issue with running also may have been that he'd lose weight, and he probably needed to be bigger than normal to compete at heavy. But he appeared to gas badly in fights I recall. Could have used more endurance training.

- - He was a Haymon orchestrated fraud following the l'l floydy fraud of picking a handful of fighters on short notice so they'd start a training camp only to find out The Chosen One was already picked out.

When he had a poll going where fans got to pick his next fighter, they chose Amir Khan who was too fast and young for l'l floydy, so he chose someone like a Berto whom he knew he could beat on short notice.

[travestyny]

- - He was a Haymon orchestrated fraud following the l'l floydy fraud of picking a handful of fighters on short notice so they'd start a training camp only to find out The Chosen One was already picked out.

When he had a poll going where fans got to pick his next fighter, they chose Amir Khan who was too fast and young for l'l floydy, so he chose someone like a Berto whom he knew he could beat on short notice.

How did we go from discussing Wilder to Floyd?

Go away.

[MalevolentBite]

How did we go from discussing Wilder to Floyd?

Go away.

See what I am saying lol. They do it every time. They do it so often they dont even notice it.

Lmaoooo

[travestyny]

See what I am saying lol. They do it every time. They do it so often they dont even notice it.

Lmaoooo

He really destroyed some of these guys' lives. Pathetic.

[MalevolentBite]

He really destroyed some of these guys' lives. Pathetic.

It's a sickness to the highest level lol.

[MalevolentBite]

Eh, dying at 23 certainly prevents you from reaching your full potential, hence "wasted potential"

I didn't want to go there but here's why I didn't want to add this. Its because I believe certain things are already predetermined. If God looked down at a baby and say this child will live to 23 for whatever reason. It was already predetermined. He didn't waste any potential because that's all that God gave him. He made the most out of his 23 years. He left a legacy. If anything he overachieved his potential for such a short life. However I am more of a spiritual person thats why I didn't want to go down that route cuz everyone aint reilgious or spiritual and I am not here to preach. Nobody knows when we will die but life is about making the most of what you got. This man has an excuse he died young but the boxers listed got here based on their own choices of "free will".

[MalevolentBite]

World Flyweight Champion Pancho Villa, 77-4-4 (22), died in San Francisco 100 years ago yesterday, in 1925 during an operation to tackle a throat infection linked to dental issues. He was only 23.
If Manny Pacquiao isn't the greatest Phillipino fighter in history, Pancho Villa was.

I didn't want to go there but here's why I didn't want to add this. Its because I believe certain things are already predetermined. If God looked down at a baby and say this child will live to 23 for whatever reason. It was already predetermined. He didn't waste any potential because that's all that God gave him. He made the most out of his 23 years. He left a legacy. If anything he overachieved his potential for such a short life. However I am more of a spiritual person thats why I didn't want to go down that route cuz everyone aint reilgious or spiritual and I am not here to preach. Nobody knows when we will die but life is about making the most of what you got. This man has an excuse he died young but the boxers listed got here based on their own choices of "free will".

[QueensburyRules]

How did we go from discussing Wilder to Floyd?

Go away.

- - What part of the UNDERGROUND BUNKERED Al Haymon do U not understand?

Stick to mangling Wills where U a expurt...!!!