POLL: UNFULFILLED: The Fighter That Most Disappointed You

[FinitoxDinamita]

Kevin Mitchell was my favorite British fighter when he was coming up.

[Tatabanya]

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

And he is indeed the one who got my vote in your poll.

Quartey was more than a good fighter, he was excellent. Beat De La Hoya for me, but did not follow that momentum. Fought too rarely, lost to Vargas who was inferior to him... the rest is history.

Anyhow, my all-time disappointment pick is Andrew Golota.

[Earl-Hickey]

For me it's Haye on that list.

I was a big proponent of Haye and when he first moved up to heavyweight I genuinely thought he had the beating of Wladamir.

I must admit that his fights with Valuev and Ruiz didn't impress me as much as I thought they would, I fully expected him to topple Valuev and I didn't see Ruiz lasting as long as he did, but still.

Wlad at the time was still seen as very fragile, and that the first solid punch on his chin would put him away (kind of how AJ is seen now) and I was sure Haye was fast enough and he surely hit hard enough. On top of that he was just so confident and I bought into it.

Well we all know what happened, and in hindsight it was easy to see it coming, Haye needed Wlad to make mistakes in that fight and he didn't, plain and simple, Haye couldn't get anything off, was kept on defence the whole night (he actually was good defensively) and Wlad wins boring UD.

Anyway post that he smashed Chisora up and I started to belive he had learned a bit and could have success vs a very old Vitali but then he just vanished.

I'm not going to talk about the Bellew fights as we all know Haye was shot to ****.

[Combat Talk Radio]

For me it's Haye on that list.

I was a big proponent of Haye and when he first moved up to heavyweight I genuinely thought he had the beating of Wladamir.

I must admit that his fights with Valuev and Ruiz didn't impress me as much as I thought they would, I fully expected him to topple Valuev and I didn't see Ruiz lasting as long as he did, but still.

Wlad at the time was still seen as very fragile, and that the first solid punch on his chin would put him away (kind of how AJ is seen now) and I was sure Haye was fast enough and he surely hit hard enough. On top of that he was just so confident and I bought into it.

Well we all know what happened, and in hindsight it was easy to see it coming, Haye needed Wlad to make mistakes in that fight and he didn't, plain and simple, Haye couldn't get anything off, was kept on defence the whole night (he actually was good defensively) and Wlad wins boring UD.

Anyway post that he smashed Chisora up and I started to belive he had learned a bit and could have success vs a very old Vitali but then he just vanished.

I'm not going to talk about the Bellew fights as we all know Haye was shot to ****.

RE: the Valuev fight. That guy should have been a huge money maker, just because he was so freak show large. But he simply had no skill, just size.

Could you imagine if Haye had sparked him out cold?

[Combat Talk Radio]

The response spread is interesting. I actually expected much more for Paul Williams.

Maybe it was just an overly vocal minority I'm remembering back in 2016-2017.