Great Who Could Of Achieved More?

[Shazam!]

Naseem Hamed is another British boxer who let the hype go to his head and could have achieved more.

The problem in England is, because we're a smaller country, we obviously have less fighters capable of challenging in America, so we're always looking for that next person to hype up. At the moment it's Amir Khan. But I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to guess that a lot of his success will come down to how well he deals with that.

[Sugarj]

Michael Watson.

And the familiar at the moment Rid**** Bowe.

[BattlingNelson]

Present day:

Jones Jr.
Mayweather
Calzaghe

[NChristo]

Chris Eubank also, after the Watson fight he just didn't really have that killer instinct in him anymore, I feel he could of achieved alot more if not for the misfortune of what happened to Watson.

[CarlosG815]

I agree with a lot of the names that have been mentioned. I'd also throw Ricky Hatton in there. He was a great puncher...knocked a lot of people out with body shots.....but his over-reliance on this and consequent failure to learn important fundamentels, coupled with a terrible diet/lifestyle between fights led to an early demise.

He would have lost to Mayweather and Pacquiao (ATG's) whichever way you spin it. But if not for the above he could still be competing at a very high level. He's still only in his early 30's. A shame really.

Hatton isn't a great though, not even close.

[BigStereotype]

Naseem Hamed
Mike Tyson
Zab Judah
James Toney

[Snopkins]

Zab Judah

Since when was Judah great? When did he ever show the potential to be great?


I blame the likes of Max Kellerman for overhyping guys like Judah.He saw a young black guy who had fast hands and he's been on his nuts ever since.

[tyger]

Ray Leonard was sidelined all those years with a detatched retna. He could/would have dominated 147-154 for years. Could you imagine, he gave a great fight to Hagler after sitting for most of 4 years. Imagine if he wasn't so rusty!

[CarlosG815]

Naseem Hamed
Mike Tyson
Zab Judah
James Toney

Zab lost every big fight of his career. Everybody talks about his potential based on skills but if you can't win you can't win.

Hes never won a big fight.

[BigStereotype]

That's true. I didn't even notice that it was "Great who could have achieved more." Zab was never anywhere near great, although he was a pretty solid amateur.