Top 10 most wasted careers in boxing history

[Blue54]

From mismanagement, to lack of dedication, to just plain ducking did I miss anyone?

1 Mike Tyson
2 Guillermo Rigondeaux
3 Ike Ibeabuchi
4 Gary Russell Jr
5 Keith Thurman
6 Tommy Morrison
7 Kell Brook
8 Demetrius Andrade
9 Edwin Valero
10 Frankie Gomez

[JakeTheBoxer]

Mike Tyson had a great career . What are you talking about?

[SouthpawRight]

kell brook had a self destruct button he brought his misfortune on himself getting stabed in a weird gay bar lover struggle the evil eddie 'persuades' him to fight ggg which was dumb dumb dumb then go back down for spence next fight i think pure dumb he got what he asked FOR

Kell would have reached his max potential by boxing in the US often early on

US offers rounds with the masters of pressure the Mexicans and the kings of athleticism American bbc boxers

[Sparked_26]

gary russell jr always seemed to be very HAPPY with how he fought every christmas or something like that it was his PLAN thats not a waste its delibert Plan

I remember reading he got paid over a million dollars to fight one of the Hylands.

No disrespect to Hyland but presumably he got paid absolute buttons to take the shellacking he did.

I remember watching this fight and thinking this is honestly absolute nonsense.

[Boxing 112]

Kell would have reached his max potential by boxing in the US often early on

US offers rounds with the masters of pressure the Mexicans and the kings of athleticism American bbc boxers

Brooks career could have been better but he spent most of it being obsessed fighting journeyman whilst chasing a Khan payday and not getting it (till late on in their careers). He fought a lot of journeyman, after the Porter win i thought he was finally going to keep up fighting decent opponents but he won the title and went back to fighting a couple of journeyman. Khan then went and got the Canelo payday at 160 and Brook went and got the GGG payday and then the Spence loss. Andrade was similar spent his time fighting journeyman whilst waiting on a Canelo payday he never got

[Malvado]

Reviewing Alfonso Zamora's career whose from the 70s, think he had a strong but short career that could had been more under the right management, he had a well rounded skillset due to his amateur background earning a silver medal in the Olympics coupled with absurd punching power. He had won the WBA, The Ring, and lineal bantamweight titles at age 21.

He had starched of multiple top class champions like Eusebio Pedroza (14-1), Alberto Davila (28-1), and Soo Hwan Hong X2 (28-2-2)>(36-3-3). He also fought top 10 ranked contenders in the ring magazine like Francisco Villegas (28-4),Thanomchit Sukhothai (24-1), and Gilberto Ilueca (25-3). Knocked out these contenders in under 4 rounds.

Too bad for him that at age 23, he faced the renown puncher in Zarate (45-0, 44 KOs) in "The Battle of the Z Boys." and immediately fought another top fighter in Jorge Lujan within the same year. He likely took too much damage despite having a granite chin with slick defense and these back to back losses hurt his morale in fighting at the pros.

[TheProudLunatic]

Mike Tyson had a great career . What are you talking about?

Notoriety, yes
Quality wise.....pure fabrication.
He has maybe 2 Ws over legitimate opps.
Holmes being one of them (coming off a 2 year hiatus, though)

The "champs" he beat were not built to be champs -
Berbick
Smith
Tucker
Spinks and his bullshlt tile
Bruno
Seldon


Maybe they had a combined total of 5 successful defenses ?

And prior to fighting Tyson, who was Tucker's best W ?

My list -
Tony "The Tiger" Ayala
Donald "The Cobra" Curry
Edwin "El Chapo" Rosario
Andrew "The Putz" Golota
Adrien "The Problem" Broner
Jeff "Left Hook" Lacy
Tommy "The Duke" Morrison
Keef "Sometime" Hurtman
Kell Broke
Terrible Terry Norris

[SouthpawRight]

Andrade his one fight of note is a L from Benavidez

[TheProudLunatic]

Andrade his one fight of note is a L from Benavidez

Not sure how his non career was wasted, doe

[HandsofIron]

Mike Tyson had a great career . What are you talking about?

Yup, one of the greatest HW ever and for me, Mike's TBEHW.