Fighter that ruined other fighter career

[Xecutioner]

again, joppy came back after his loss against trinidad and beat howard eastmen later that year. i wouldnt exactly call that ruined. he then beat a japanese middleweight and didnt lose against until hopkins made his head look like it had been in a hornets nest. trinidad gave reid a beating, but he definately didnt cause that eye injury it had already been there since amateurs, his camp wanted him to retire for years and were suprised he even made it that far in his career. trinidad finally put him out of his misery

[baya]

of course, fights will be over by 12 eastern so I say we meet at 11pacific...Ill show you a good time, Ill leave the wife behind and we can get us a couple of redneck racist whores that need it givin to them good...just think Baya there are to dumb chicks walking around Oklahoma city right now that are ours! I wish I could tell them to rest up because I have a game plan for them...in the words of the great Clobber Lang...."PAIN"

yeah, a nice brisk pace'll get me there no problemo. i just wanna inflict the "pain" on timothy mcveigh's younger sister and/or mother ... trizzzz dude!

WHAT UP!

[baya]

again, joppy came back after his loss against trinidad and beat howard eastmen later that year. i wouldnt exactly call that ruined. he then beat a japanese middleweight and didnt lose against until hopkins made his head look like it had been in a hornets nest. trinidad gave reid a beating, but he definately didnt cause that eye injury it had already been there since amateurs, his camp wanted him to retire for years and were suprised he even made it that far in his career. trinidad finally put him out of his misery

i wouldn't go equating american (pardon the non-pc) talent to european talent dude. beating an eastman and a japanese cat doesn't scream "come back!"

no offense elviel - i didn't think of hatton when i said that. nor pac-man, nor the good 3-K battery ...

[Mr. Ryan]

Holyfield ruined tyson

No, Tyson ruined Tyson.

[Mr. Ryan]

Benn ruined McClellen.

[SweetScience]

Ricky Martin ruined Oscar De La Hoya.

[THRILLAinmanila]

MAB ruined Hamed's magic-carpet ride....

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Can't believe it took so long for Chavez ruining Taylor to get mentioned.

Probably one of the worst ever in my opinion. Meldrick had all the makings of a top all time great before he met JCC.

[DJ OxXx]

No, Tyson ruined Tyson.

Exactly what I was gonna say.

[bchynn]

This whole "ruined a fighter's career" list should be much shorter. It's really hard to tell whether or not a fighter's career has been ruined by one fight, even in the Benn-McClellan case. Prior to that fight, G-man said in an interview that he's had migraine headaches ever since he fought Julian Jackson. Even if he never fought Benn, eventually, McClellan would have had brain damage.

Most damage from boxing is from an accumulation of punches over an accumulation of fights. But, unless you're a health expert who's tested all of these fighters, then you can't know for certain.

There should be two definitions of how a fighter's career can be looked at as "ruined". One is because of health problems and the other is by market value. Holyfield definitely didn't ruin Tyson's career healthwise, but an argument can be made that Tyson losing may have at least very slightly lowered his market value, the same can be said for other fighters after they've lost or lost in an unexpectedly bad way (e.g. Golota Ko'ed in 1 round by Lewis).