Fighters who declined rapidly.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

How about Donald curry

[Anthony342]

Central nervous system..

You know how in video games you have a bar of life on the bottom of the screen? CNS is kind of like the real version if that.

It's kind of like the software of your body. And if you over push it (drugs, lack of sleep, steroids, disease, medication, overwork it t the gym, etc etc,) it will deteriorate.

It's why as fighters get older making weight becomes older. Extreme weight gain/loss is def bad for the CNS.

Ah, or like when someone takes a hard punch to the chin or body and the health bar goes way down. It happens in muay thai and MMA with leg kicks too, man those are brutal.

[soul_survivor]

Jones is an example a lot of people are picking, can't fault that.

How about Bowe? I know he was always a bit up and down in his career in terms of physique and performances but the drop off from the first Holyfield fight onwards was so sudden and by the mid 90s, he was done as a top heavyweight.

I could probably mention Frazier too, beating Ali seemed to be his great achievement and after that, he didn't really beat anyone of note. Got destroyed by Foreman and although he gave Ali hell at times, he essentially took a beating for 14 rounds. It wasn't even as if he had a busy schedule or anything.

[Motivedia]

Didn't realise martinez was top notch, but agree with RJJ comments.

[NChristo]

How about Donald curry

Among the first names to come too mind but it wasn't really because he declined physically I think it was more of a mental beating after the Lloyd Honeyghan fight, fighting McCallum didn't do him any favours either.

[IronDanHamza]

Berto. Went from the next mayweather to constant losses.

Dawson. Lost to pascal never seemed the same mentally afterwards

Whitaker after the 154 title he won he seemed to slow down rapidly

Vargas- to many tough fighters vs to many good fighters to soon.

Pwill- he seemed to slow down after the first Martinez fight then the knock out came and he just wasn't the same.

Tavours cloud- I almost forgot he existed lol

Berto and Cloud were just not good in the first place and lost or looked bad when they fought good/decent fighters.

[IronDanHamza]

Roy jones by far,,, went from being p4p #1 and possible GOAT after ruiz fight, to becoming a punching bag ever fight after.. Incredible drop off, unlike a tyson where it was more gradual and the declined had over many years..

Jermain taylor and jeff lacy both never recovered again after pavlik n calzaghe..


Bute see,s to be completely done after the froch fight

Jeff Lacy another example of a fighter not being good in the first place and looking bad/losing when he fought good/decent

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Jeff Lacy another example of a fighter not being good in the first place and looking bad/losing when he fought good/decent

Yeah but he went fron blowing out journeymen to losing to them.. Not saying he was great. But he was even worse post calzaghe

[AddiX]

Alanjandro Barios?

Is that even the correct name? Dude had a ton of hype, never came close to amounting to any of it. Just fell apart.

[joseph5620]

How about Donald curry

Curry and Terry Norris immediately came to my mind. Gabe Ruelas also.