Fighters who squandered their talent due to lifestyle or lack of discipline?

[PunchMeIDareYou]

I'll start it off. Hector macho Camacho. If the guy had the work ethic to go with his God given talent he could have gone down as an all time great.

[TheMyspaceDayz]

Buster Douglas.

[EDDIE SPERM]

Andy Ruiz Jr

[JK1700]

I would say in this era Zab Judah, Adrien Broner and to some extent Amir Khan. Judah was extremely gifted but lacked discipline. I mean he won 5x world titles but lost to a lot of guys he shouldn’t have and seemed to fold under pressure quite often. Broner also lacks the “mental game” to win against the top, top guys. Skill wise he had/still has all the skills to be a top fighter but lacks the mental discipline to do it. Just look at how many baby mamas he has and you can see he doesn’t take things as seriously as he should. Still a real good fighter and he can beat most B/C level fighters but never the top dogs.

Amir Khan for me had a lot of potential but fought the wrong style, chose the wrong trainer and could’ve had a way better career if he was smarter. Not saying he would’ve been the best, but he was taller than all the other 140s and chose to give all his height up and try to fight like Manny Pacquiao. That was ******, he should’ve been jabbing and staying on the outside. With a better trainer who properly utilised his advantages he could’ve had a much better career. By the time he changed that, it was too late.

[F l i c k e r]

Camacho is a poor shout. He didn't squander his talent, he actually achieved things and he's one of the best Puerto Rican boxers ever, a Hall of Famer, and an ATG.

What comes to my mind is without a doubt,

Zab Judah and Adrien Broner.

Two guys who legit have generational talent that exceeded damn near every boxer during their respective time but their mental strength, discipline, focus, and lifestyles were just so atrocious that their in-ring talent was never peaked.

Zab Judah is called the dumbest boxer ever for a reason. Yet had raw talent that honestly rivaled Mayweather's.

Broner is a Mayweather imitator but he legitimately has talent that far exceeds just about anyone in the game right now from 130-147. He simply lacks the intellect, heart, desire, work-ethic, discipline. He truly coasts through every match. There's a saying that you will fight like how you train and he 100% without a doubt shows that. In live, winner take all matches, he treats the damn thing like a spar. His work rate in-ring puts most Heavyweights to shame. If he had that dog in him, that unbridled desire to be great within him like an Aaron Pryor, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler.

Make no doubt about it. Broner would be the #1 boxer right now. He'd be untouchable from 130-140 and at 147, his talent and skill surpasses the 147 guys. His size is his disadvantage there. But with that heart, brain; discipline. He'd outbox everyone from Porter and Thurman to Spence and getting into fight of the year type matches with Crawford.

[Nicamex]

Tank Davis. JCC, hear me out, JCC chin alone and just a little bit of discipline would have been fun. Kov and Spence need to put down the bottle

[famicommander]

Mike Tyson spent years of his prime in jail for ****. Doesn't get much worse than that, regardless of what he did before and after the jail stint.

[Black Jesus]

Paul Spadafora and Kelly Pavlik

[Cobra Curry]

James De Gale

[RuleOfTheSpear]

2010s Pacquiao and Ali because of his religion (suspended for refusing draft)



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