What Fighters Were You Wrong About?

I don´t know.....Maybe Khan.....the one thing he proved in the fight against Maidana was he can take a good punch, and he has a big heart.....He is a much better fighter than I thought he was.....better than I thought, but not great yet, of course....

 

Meggs Heffner. We had no idea he had a bad knee. You could turn him all night but in a phone booth, he was like James Toney!...Years later, I mean!

 

Carl Froch.

Not that i think he's turned out to be that good, but on the way up he looked like he would be lucky to compete with even a single fighter of remotely world level ability.

 

Most lately i'd say devon alexander, I thought he was absolutely amazing when I saw him early on, really felt he was a rough diamond but now it seems he's just not that good.

Going the other way i'd say hopkins. I never expected him to end up a legend. I mean the mw run was good and put him in the great category but after losing to taylor in the rematch I thought it was over for him and he'd gone as far b4 he could. For him to be top of the world 6 years on establishing his legacy as that is a legend is something I never predicted of him.

 

How about Manny Pacquiao? Knocked out by a relitive novice in Torrecampo. Now look

 

Just about to say him...I never rated him highly when I saw him earlier. Also thought that of Pascal.

Ill also say Kelly Pavlik...whom I wasn't even sure could have bested Zertuche, picked against for the Miranda fight, the first Taylor fight and said I considered the second Taylor fight "50-50". I suppose I wasn't to far off on my last prediction but I really was ye of little faith when it came to Pav.

 

Erdei.

I thought he looked decent enough coming up and had been a Dariusz sparring partner so he had some pedigree. But Sdunek did a masterful job with the guy and all he has ever done is win. I sure did not see those results for that long of a period of time coming.

 

Great one

Sergo Martinez and Bernard Hopkins also made uninspiring starts to there pro careers

Evander Holyfield kept on proving people wrong time and time again

 

chris eubank....

an old man who was an uncle of a bird i was messing about with at the time, seen him in his first few pro fights....and he was raving about how good he was, said he was a world champion in the making....but then after a while a satellite channel called screensport showed eubank boxing and i thought he was slow and arkward

i was wrong.

 

i think you may be getting a little mixed up with the TS intention. Unless you were watching Pacquiao and formed an opinion of him back then which has since been proved otherwise.


holyfield for me, and a lot of others too. I thought he was bluffing his way in the heavies, got lucky with a disinterested Douglas and even luckier with Cooper. Boy was i wrong.

 

Thought watching a slim motor-mouth Cassius Clay sparring at the 5TH ST.GYM that he'd be launched into space the first time he got tagged on the button by a real heavyweight.

Thought watching Howard Davis, Jr. in the Golden Gloves he was gonna be the second-coming of SRR.

 

Recently, Amir Khan.

After seeing Prescott deal him 1st round calamity Ted Spoon did not fancy him to recover and make as good as he has.

 

I thought Prince Naz would achieve a lot more than he did, with his phenomenal ability & tremendous power.