Which boxer had the most potnential to be great?

[everlast99]

IKE...i have his fights against tua and byrd...man he's a frickin BEAST...100 punches a damn round..iron chin to withstand tua and obviously he could deal with slick boxers...he would have destroyed anybody until the day he was in his mid 40s

[XionComrade]

Earnie Shavers anyone? The hardest hitting heavyweight reduced to a mere nobody in boxing, noone even cares about him.

Gerry Cooney, probably gave Norton the beating of his life, I even think it was worse than what Shavers did to him!

Ken Norton of course also, he should be up their with Ali but he isn't!

Rid**** Bowe, enough said!

Butterbean

[RAESAAD]

Earnie Shavers anyone? The hardest hitting heavyweight reduced to a mere nobody in boxing, noone even cares about him.

Gerry Cooney, probably gave Norton the beating of his life, I even think it was worse than what Shavers did to him!

Ken Norton of course also, he should be up their with Ali but he isn't!

Rid**** Bowe, enough said!

Butterbean

WTF Butterbean really?

[JUYJUY]

I'm going to suprise a few of you now and say Nigel Benn and Kostya Tszyu. These cats achieved, and were great. BUT if you see them in the amateurs you'll see that they were ****ing Awesome! Not awesome, but AWESOME! I mean they just seemed much, much faster. Kostya for example, his best asset in the amateurs was always his left hand work, he did a lot of great left hand work. In the pro's, Kostya evolved into a slower fighter with a power-laced laser right hand. Benn in the amateurs could string together hooks and uppercuts like no other and his punches even sounded different to everybody elses. Benn in the amateurs had lightning fast combination's to the point where he looked unbeatable!

Do you know what these guys 'downfalls' were? I'll tell you......

Not long after turning pro they started using weights, and it decreased their speed. That was their 'downfall' because they would of been even better than they were had they not used weights.

[Dynamite76]

Greg Page
Donald Curry
James Shuler
Hilmer Kenty
Edwin Rosario
Hector Camacho

[jabsRstiff]

Donald Curry....he's my #1 pick. '84-'86.....the most brilliant fighter I've seen. Couldn't sustain it, of course.

Rosario....best "prospect" I've ever seen. After seeing him early on, & especially after he wiped up Edwin Viruet.....I thought he was going to become one of the best fighers ever. Had a horrible time with JL Ramirez..& only had flashes (Bramble) of that early brilliance from then on.

Ike Ibeabuchi....the heavyweight divion would be worth a helluvalot had this looney tune not been so looney. A sight not seen today- the complete package at heavyweight.


Ike Quartey....Between the Espana & Phillips fights, I thought we were witnessing the future of the sport. Would have picked that version to defeat all of the 147lbers of his day (Tito & Oscar included). The man got a little too soft to maintain that level

[Gregster]

Naseem Hamed, trained like a maniac in the glory days (93-94-95) but almost literally stopped training by 96-97 according to Ingle. Hamed, probably the best young prospect I seen.

[butterfly1964]

buster douglass beat a prime iron mike, but his weight problems were his downfall, so i would have to go with buster douglass.

[trinidadpr87]

I heard Tony Ayala Jr. would of been great had he not been arrested.

[machotime]

I have to say Hector Macho Camacho. Fast, slick, great defense, great chin, and power, he lacked work ethic, he had so much talent and put it to waste by just barely training to fight, even for the big fights.