Fighters That You Thought Were Gonna Be Great, But Flopped?

[1SILVA]

Name some fighters that you thought were gonna be great and really achieve alot, but just didn't live up to potential and flopped?

Past or Present!

Rodolfo Gato Gonzalez
Joe Lipsey
Michael Watson
Frank Tate
Alex Ramos
Ronnie Harris
Jerome Coffee
Paul Gonzalez
Dennis Milton
Sugar Ray Seales

[Joey Giardello]

Rodolfo Gato Gonzalez
Joe Lipsey
Michael Watson
Frank Tate
Alex Ramos
Ronnie Harris
Jerome Coffee
Paul Gonzalez
Dennis Milton
Sugar Ray Seales

dude michael watson did not flopp! he was boxing the ears of eubank in there rematch and got caught in the last round! the rest was out of his hands what happend!

[jrosales13]

I didn't think they were going to be great but at the very least very good. Ricardo Williams Jr and Panchito Bojado. At the time I would of bet anybody that they would of been better than Miguel Cotto at 140. Boy was I wrong...

Other fighter who I thought had potential... They didn't flop but there careers were cut short due to going ot jail. Harry Simon and Ike Ibeabuchi... Those 2 are the what if's in my potential list. James Kirkland could be on it... The Jury is still out on him... Tony Ayala Jr is on the same boat as them but he was before my time...

[1SILVA]

dude michael watson did not flopp! he was boxing the ears of eubank in there rematch and got caught in the last round! the rest was out of his hands what happend!

After he beat Benn, I thought he'd be a sure fire champion. McCallum kicked his ass from pillar to post and was destroyed in that fight. He fought great in both fights against Benn, even though I feel he was already damaged goods because of the ass kicking he received from the Body Snatcher

[ballgamessuck]

No need to get mad about it

First off this thread is about fighters who flopped! fighters like james toney, zab judah and jeff lacy did not flop all three become world champions! you wanna talk about a figher who flopped how about cuban heavyweight Jorge Luis Gonzalez. This thread is not about fighters who could of been great or didnt furfil there careers! it about fighters who just flopped full stop! like that cuban heavyweight and ricardo williams

Lacy was champion because he hadnt really fought anyone, there wasnt much talent outside europe in that division at the time.

[koboy]

Mike Ayala, Panchito Bojado, Jorge Linares, (maybe it's not too late), Mark Breland. Gabriel Ruelas was one of my faves that never materialized. Having a Canadian citizenship, I thought Razor Ruddock and Kirk Johnson were going to be great. Oh well... There's a lot more.

[mickey malone]

Quote: GJC Errol Christie, then someone hit him

Thought you might beat me to that one.. Christie always comes to mind immediately on this subject.. Do you remember George Collins?

Quote: Silva After he beat Benn, I thought he'd be a sure fire champion. McCallum kicked his ass from pillar to post and was destroyed in that fight. He fought great in both fights against Benn, even though I feel he was already damaged goods because of the ass kicking he received from the Body Snatcher

Benn and Watson only fought the once.. You may be confusing it with the 2 fights Watson had with Chris Eubank..

Here's some others that disappointed:-

Tyrell Biggs (Olympic Gold)
Audley Harrison (Olympic Gold)
Henry Tilman (Olympic Gold)
Alex Arthur (the 2nd coming of Ken Buchanan?)
Kirkland Laing (beat Duran, then did very little else)
Francisco Bojado (supposed to beat everyone)
Fernando Vargas (didn't train properly)
David Reed (should have worn Eubank's monnocle)
Michael Grant (exposed everytime he stepped up in class)
Kassim Ouma (full of empty promise)
Ike Ibeabuchi (lost the plot)
Tony Ayala Jr (prefered raping & pillaging)
Naseem Hamed (should be a p4p ATG but wasted it)
Scott Harrison (prefers fighting in the pub)
Ike Quartey (expected more from him)
Colin McMillan (supposed to clear up but became a 'sick-note' instead)
Alex Povetkin (still waiting, what's the big hold up?)
David Tua (should've had at least 1 more crack at a title, too late now)
Michael Dokes (technically, better than Holmes, should'a been 'the man')

[Joey Giardello]

After he beat Benn, I thought he'd be a sure fire champion. McCallum kicked his ass from pillar to post and was destroyed in that fight. He fought great in both fights against Benn, even though I feel he was already damaged goods because of the ass kicking he received from the Body Snatcher

yes but geting beat by mccallum does not make watson a flop, he come back after that loss to only then get robbed out of a world title in the first eubank fight

[Joey Giardello]

Lacy was champion because he hadnt really fought anyone, there wasnt much talent outside europe in that division at the time.

lacy beat one of europe's best supermiddleweights in robin reid he even become the first man to stop reid, the same reid who alot of people thought was robbed against calzaghe, if this tells you somethig calzaghe would never give reid a rematch. Lacy was not a flopp, ricardo williams was what you call a flopp

[yeykax]

Panchito Bojado
Paul Spadafora
Fernando Vargas
David Reid
Mike Achondo
Vivian Harris
Zab Judah
Jorge Barrios
Acelino Freitas
Rocky Juarez the list goes on