Best Natural talent gone to waste?

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Boxing over the years has seen some great natural talent, for whom the game appeared so easy, yet despite this they never achieved their full potential in the game for whatever reasons. As a brit the best example I can think of is Kirkland Laing, this guy could have been so much better, if only he trained properly and put the effort in, but because he was so naturally gifted he felt he was gonna beat anyone and didn't need to train. Regarding american fighters, one of the best natural talents I can remember in recent years was Michael 'second to' Nunn, and although winning titles at 2 weights, he never achieved his full potential, the Toney defeat had a big impact on him as well. He should never have lost that fight, but he believed he was unbeatable and was ****y and lazy. Toney as good as a fighter as he was, wasn't in the same class as Nunn. He should have ruled the middleweights for years. He had the talent to beat Toney,RJJ,Hopkins,Benn,Eubank and all the others.

[Boxicologist]

Naseem Hamed.
Corrie Sanders

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Mike Tyson.

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Hamed
tyson
Michael Watson (through no fault of his own)
Gerald McClellan (through no fault of his own)

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Corrie Sanders

[No1]

Mike tyson
nassim hamed
g-man
and recently super zab judah

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Hamed and Tyson yes I can agree with that, but Corrie Sanders I'm not so sure, but then maybe I'm missing something, he did have boxing skills granted, but can't see how he could have gone on to achieve much more. As for the McClellan and Watson comment they couldn't have done more than what they already did, their careers were unfortunately cut short but it's hardly a case of wasted talent.

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Zab Judah
Naseem Hamed

Both could have been so much more

[Boxicologist]

Hamed and Tyson yes I can agree with that, but Corrie Sanders I'm not so sure, but then maybe I'm missing something, he did have boxing skills granted, but can't see how he could have gone on to achieve much more.

Corrie Sanders had a golf career in mind as well as weight problems. He had no set direction. He was a decent golfer and a natural talent for boxing which he wasted by not concentrating enough on. Nobody puts Wladmir down like that. Not even now, a few years later.

[Tokez]

Zab Judah