POLL: UNFULFILLED: The Fighter That Most Disappointed You

[Combat Talk Radio]

I want to know. Of this list which fighter had the most potential that they squandered? Which one COULD and SHOULD have been "The Guy" but due to bad decisions or injuries, they have become a footnote in the "what if" book?

Criteria is this:

• These guys are being measured against the rise of guys like Mke Tyson, who unified against tough opposition, NOT vacant belts
• Cannot hold steroids or other things against the fighter. We're talking about what they did (or didn't do) IN the ring
• It doesn't matter what they accomplished in the past if they later failed to continue the momentum
• We're not talking about record, we're talking about RESUME

[famicommander]

Robert Helenius on the way up beat
Lamon Brewster
Samuel Peter
Siarhei Liakhovich
Dereck Chisora

Then got beat by Duhaupas.

[Citizen Koba]

Smart man too Dmitry, clever... well, except for the tractor tyres thing. That wasn't so smart.

[Kezzer]

Someone like Haye who was cruiserweight champion then went onto become heavyweight .... well I really don’t know how you can be on a list like this? I mean - he failed against Klitschko etc but that’s a proper top end fight at that point.

For me this comes down to fighters who avoid the fights to build up unbeaten records. Wilder for example didn’t take on anyone for so long and when he did , that was calculated - Ortiz being “old” and fury being out the ring for a number of years . It backfired - but there the sort of fighters I’m most frustrated with.

[Richard Hamilton]

Wright, Haye, Khan, Williams, Quartey all need to be taken off the list.

[N!Ck F.]

Paying $75 to watch Garcia Vs Spence was disappointing. After alllllll that talking Mikey threw 60 punches.

[Scopedog]

I think Kell Brook could have been the boss at welterweight in the wake of Mayweather's retirement if he hadn't committed the career equivalent of hara-kiri against Golovkin. Imagine if he'd never took that ****** fight and subsequently had that bit extra in the tank to come out on top against Spence. How different would the WW division look and how different would Brook's fortunes have been? Of course, the Golovkin fight wasn't the only ****** thing he did, honestly he was lucky that getting stabbed in the leg while on holiday only put him out of commission for a while instead of finishing off his career there and then. He was an excellent fighter but no brains outside the ring.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Someone like Haye who was cruiserweight champion then went onto become heavyweight .... well I really don’t know how you can be on a list like this? I mean - he failed against Klitschko etc but that’s a proper top end fight at that point.

For me this comes down to fighters who avoid the fights to build up unbeaten records. Wilder for example didn’t take on anyone for so long and when he did , that was calculated - Ortiz being “old” and fury being out the ring for a number of years . It backfired - but there the sort of fighters I’m most frustrated with.

Haye allowed Shannon Briggs to run up on him, promised him a fight, then ducked him.

Haye got told to his face - I believe it was Fury, could be wrong - to stay healthy, only to get an injury again.

Haye never stepped up and fought or beat an elite heavyweight. I said it already - your past doesn't count if you didn't continue momentum. It's widely accepted that Haye should never have gone to heavyweight because he was in over his head.

Wright, Haye, Khan, Williams, Quartey all need to be taken off the list.

See my notes above about Haye.

Winky - Keef said it best, after a 2-year layoff, came back fighting top dudes and ruined his career (it says UNFULFILLED. This counts. Had he taken a tuneup he might have gone on to greater things.)

Khan should never have fought Canelo. Period. It killed any momentum he might have had otherwise.

Williams' most notable outcome was robbing Lara and getting sparked out by Sergio after robbing him in the first fight. His career was the TEXTBOOK definition of "what if". He was so good at his smoke and mirrors he had his fans claiming that Floyd ducked him - to the point he had to cut an interview shutting them up.




Quartey was a good fighter who lost EVERY step up fight he was in (robbery or not). TEXTBOOK definition of "what if".

[drablj]

rid**** bowe

[Richard Hamilton]

Haye allowed Shannon Briggs to run up on him, promised him a fight, then ducked him.

Haye got told to his face - I believe it was Fury, could be wrong - to stay healthy, only to get an injury again.

Haye never stepped up and fought or beat an elite heavyweight. I said it already - your past doesn't count if you didn't continue momentum. It's widely accepted that Haye should never have gone to heavyweight because he was in over his head.



See my notes above about Haye.

Winky - Keef said it best, after a 2-year layoff, came back fighting top dudes and ruined his career (it says UNFULFILLED. This counts. Had he taken a tuneup he might have gone on to greater things.)

Khan should never have fought Canelo. Period. It killed any momentum he might have had otherwise.

Williams' most notable outcome was robbing Lara and getting sparked out by Sergio after robbing him in the first fight. His career was the TEXTBOOK definition of "what if". He was so good at his smoke and mirrors he had his fans claiming that Floyd ducked him - to the point he had to cut an interview shutting them up.




Quartey was a good fighter who lost EVERY step up fight he was in (robbery or not). TEXTBOOK definition of "what if".

Less than 1 percent of boxers even get close to what these guys achieved. Nobody has a perfect career, ups and downs are part of it.