Great Who Could Of Achieved More?

[DeelDough]

Roberto Clemente. I know he is a baseball player but he fits lol , u didnt specify.

[GJC]

James Toney always leaps to front of my mind as underachieving

[CarlosG815]

Pretty amazing that the two greatest HWs of all time both lost almost 4 years of their peak prime and still managed to be head and shoulders above the rest.

Makes me wonder where Joe Frazier would be had Ali never been banned from the sport.

There's a good chance that Frazier would have never been Champion. Ali was too dominant at the time he was banned, does anybody think that Frazier would have had a shot at taking the title from Ali?

[JAB5239]

Makes me wonder where Joe Frazier would be had Ali never been banned from the sport.

There's a good chance that Frazier would have never been Champion. Ali was too dominant at the time he was banned, does anybody think that Frazier would have had a shot at taking the title from Ali?

Hard to say, but Ali always had trouble with left hookers and Joe's was one of the best ever. I think Frazier would have always troubled Ali.

[razzledaz 38]

rid**** bowe could have been an all time great if he had been able to keep out of the fridge.
he can only be mentioned as a good heavyweight who avoided lennox lewis (tho i think he would have beaten lewis anyway) his higher workrate and better stamina would have made the difference.

[Snopkins]

Makes me wonder where Joe Frazier would be had Ali never been banned from the sport.

There's a good chance that Frazier would have never been Champion. Ali was too dominant at the time he was banned, does anybody think that Frazier would have had a shot at taking the title from Ali?

No,he wouldn't have.frazier wouldn't have been a champ in any other era expect perhaps an interim champ in todays era perhaps.


Had Jimmy Ellis also not come off such a long layoff,rfazier perhaps wouldn't have been champion then either.

[MonsieurGeorges]

Name some Great/ATG fighters, that could of achived more, but for one reason or another didn't?

Young Griffo

[EzzardFan]

This is easy... Dave Sands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Sands

This man was the original opponent picked for SRR but negotiations broke down and the fight went to Randy Turpin with Sands fighting on the undercard. Sands had already beaten Bobo Olsen (who later beat Turpin for the vacant MW crown), and had he landed the SRR fight then he would have stood a great chance.

[EzzardFan]

And Ike Williams, a great fighter whose career was ruined by the mob.

[EzzardFan]

Charley Burley. Welterweight that never got a title shot and was ducked by everyone who wasn't also ducked by everyone. Ended up fighting much bigger MWs, LHWs, and HWs guys cos nobody else would take him on. Even SRR ducked him. Beat Archie Moore.