Boxing's Wasted Talents......

[semjasa]

The biggest waisted tallent has to be Kirkland ( The Gifted One) Lang.
He beat Duran on points, he had a strange style with the fastest hands id ever seen, he is now living on the streets of Sheffield i think and is a crak addict.

[bandito]

man, take sanchez off this list. he doesn't belong even close to this list. he was a great and died at the age of 23!!! imagine how great he could have been. he was awesome. take sanchez of this list. dumb to put him on there in the first place.

[Memorex]

no doubt it was mike tyson he could have been the greatest i think, he was so dominating.

[Moon]

The following fighters had some great wins, some many. But .....


- Mark Breland (Just simply gave up)
- Razor Ruddock (Big guy with all the right skills, but would not commit himself to the game)
- Prince Hamed (I really despise this guy. He got caught-up in his own marketing hype, instead of building his skills and learning to take a punch, he preferred to flop around like a clown)
- Lennox Lewis (Always be remembered as the guy who didn't / couldn't give Klitchko the rematch that all boxing fans wanted)

[chito]

Mike Tyson, who had the potential to stand heads and shoulders alongside Rocky Marciano in history books in terms of ring accomplishments. He was great, but I think he could have been greater still, had he the heart and mind of an Evander.

i agree with you mike tyson was a wasted talent! well, no one is to blame but him, he made some crucial errors in his life! when his boxing career was booming, he tried to **** one stewardest (or attendant i don't quite remember). he was convicted for a **** case and imprisoned! after that, he was never the same again. he was unstoppable during his prime, he was the youngest heavyweight at age 20 (or 19). yes he lacks the heart to be a great champion, his attitude can't handle pressure brought about by by stardom!

[chito]

i am thinking andrew golota (wasn't he the one who fought rid**** bowe and got disqualified for repeatedly hitting below the belt)? if he was it then i want to mention his name as a wasted talent, too! he was a good boxer i remember him during the fight with bowe, he's ahead on points before that disqualification occured! he's got talent, but he became a dumb boxer!

[Dynamite76]

Donald Curry, because he could have gone to heights very few ever had or will
Michael Dokes, though not having the talent of a Page, snorted his best years away
Bernard Taylor, should have been featherweight champ
Howard Davis Junior, should have been lightweight champ
Greg Page, ate his way out of contention and was not strong enough personally to handle the demons.

[tjp]

I completely agree with you regarding Dokes, he had good hand speed and was one of the few heavyweights that threw multi punch combos. Then the drugs did the rest. In a time when the heavyweight division is almost as weak as it is today he had the chance of becoming a dominant force.

I also have to say that Tyrell Biggs rates up here somewhere. He was an excellent boxer who walked into a prime Tyson (I think that Tyson's style and speed was the deciding factor) but he was never the same again.

Finally I have to say that I don't think that Naz Hamed wasted his talents, I think he made the best of them and then found out that maybe he wasn't the fighter he thought he was.

[J !]

man, take sanchez off this list. he doesn't belong even close to this list. he was a great and died at the age of 23!!! imagine how great he could have been. he was awesome. take sanchez of this list. dumb to put him on there in the first place.

amen brother he is sitll one of the top five feathers of all time, disgusting to have him on this list.

[J !]

The biggest waisted tallent has to be Kirkland ( The Gifted One) Lang.
He beat Duran on points, he had a strange style with the fastest hands id ever seen, he is now living on the streets of Sheffield i think and is a crak addict.

he was on the streets of Harringey / Dalston mate not sheffield, however he has sorted himslef out, he had a bad fall from a balcony while off his **** not so long ago and this prompted him to "clean up" while hospitalised I believe.
He is living with family in Nottingham a very reliable source tells me, but refuses to do any interviews although he was recently on Trisha apparently, (not that i watch it) an ex boxer and talking bout alcoholism etc etc.

hope this sheds some light for you and yeah what a talent, he never did get a meaningful title shot, amazing really.