prospects who became nothing

[PureBoxingCEO]

Victor Ortiz all the way

[freudianfloyd]

Well if you are going to include Tommy Morrison, you might as well include David Tua and Shannon Briggs.

And don't forget Zab Judah.

[Amazinger]

this is playing off of the other thread about overrated fighters. what fighters through history can you think of that were lauded as being the next big thing as they were coming up only to flame out when the real competition hit.

Tommy Morrison
Michael Grant
Francisco Bohado
David Reid(though i think this one may have more to do with his eye injury)
Sam Peter
Zahir Raheem
Joel Julio(may be jumping the gun here)

any others you guys can come up with?

Tony Ayala and Sugar Ramos.

[Spray_resistant]

Sugar ray seales
Alex Ramos
Curtis Parker
Clarence Vinson
Ricardo Williams
James Broad
Paul Gonzales
Alberto Sandoval
Jerome Coffee
Rocky Juarez
Brian Adams
Audley Harrison
Duane Bobick
Gerry Cooney

I really saw some potential in him after the Olympics in 2000......what happened?

[Bundana]

About 40 years ago spanish stone-lifter Jose Manuel Ibar Urtain was a huge sensation, with 30 straight knockouts - but faded away after being outboxed and stopped by Henry Cooper.

Around the same time american heavyweight Mac Foster was seemingly heading for the big-time, knocking out his first 24 opponents... but was then exposed by Jerry Quarry, who stopped him in 6 rounds after giving the crude Foster a boxing lesson.

[Golden Bantam]

Ike Ibeabuchi was like Ayala in alot of ways, bright future and a chance to make some good money. He messed up and never reached the top.

Ibeabuchi looked so good when destroying (a prime) Chris Byrd and dominating the always dangerous David Tua. The championship would be just a matter of time for him.

What a waste of talent.


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[El Jesus]

The first name that came to mind was Bojado, since he seemed to have the speed, the combinations, but also the movement. he had a decent chin, but his movement is what got me thinking that this guy was going to be either king at 140 or close to it. I remember thinking when he won his title that if he knocked out leija, he would get a shot at Vivian Harris, and then fight either cotto or mayweather or someone like that down the road. I actually gave him a good shot at beating any of those guys at 140 (gatti, mayweather, harris, hatton, cotto).

Regardless, someone brought up Gonzalez, that guy was lucky enough to have a casino behind him, basically they backed him through the idea that he would become champion and be their main attraction, but like someone mentioned, he caught a few exposals and was basically finished from there.

[Bigdaddy_Vh]

Victor Ortiz all the way

i was going to put his name down as well but i think its a little early to tell. just like i may be jumping the gun with joel julio

[Dynamite76]

Irving Mitchell
Richard Savage
Jackie Beard
Bernard Taylor.

[TBear]

Amazing how many of these promising fighters could have gone alot further had they had better management and training.