Fighters who fell short ..

[MikeHunt]

Name some fighters who fell very short of their potential,
here are some off the top of my head ..

Kirkland Laing
Herol Graham
Donald Curry
Mark Breland
George Collins
Ryan Rhodes
Dean Francis

.. Who else?

Milton McCrory
Howard Davis
Gerry Cooney

[Moon]

Breland is an unfortunate situation for boxing. He had the skills and ability, desite his very unusual frame. You'd almost expect him to be snapped-in-half every time he stepped into the ring. Early on, he was a pleasure to watch. His total destruction of Honeyghan (Curry's nemesis) was awesome and gave him a strap, but he was promptly KO'd in his next outing. ****ty.

[The Fix]

kirk johnson

dominik guinn...i would have bet money he would have had a piece of the title by now.

wlad

rico hoye, kinda early but...


kid diamond, i sware hbo was trying to build this guy up and casamayor started it and cambell finished him.

[Dynamite76]

Milton McCrory
Howard Davis
Gerry Cooney

I thought McCrory was the man, even over Curry, till the Colin Jones fights.Afterwards, he fell off in my eyes.Davis didn't truly want to be a professional fighter, and if he was managed right, still should've been champ.Cooney, same thing, should've taken the shot vs Weaver.

[butterfly1964]

1) mike tyson is by far the worse waste of talent ever. he would not listen to anyone and it always for his own good. he self-destructed himself.

2) also muhammad ali would have blazed a trail in boxing from 1967-1970 that the world has never seen, had the u.s. not him of the best three years of his life!
3) marvis frazier had potential, but the style that he was taught (his father joe's) was not fit for him. if he'd stick and move, he would have raised hell in at least the cruiserweight division.

[vze2hhvj]

to me one of the guys who fell short was Fres Oquendo, Trinidad Senior trained him , then he fell apart after a loss to TUA, RUIZ and Bryd, according to boxrec he is inactive since 04

[Dynamite76]

Based on what I've heard and seen, heavyweight Jimmy Clark.

[butterfly1964]

mike tyson, buster douglass and muhammad ali.

[Baddest man on da planet]

For sure tyson is the biggest wate of talent and also buster douglas. butterfly ali was not a waste.

[butterfly1964]

For sure tyson is the biggest wate of talent and also buster douglas. butterfly ali was not a waste.

ali didn't fight between 1967 and 1970, the best years of his boxing life. he would have been as fast as in 1967, and as strong as in 1971, which IMO is pretty friggin' scary! no one ever got to see muhammad ali's true boxing potential.