Fighters who declined rapidly.

Meldrick Taylor

 

Pryor, like mentioned, is a perfect candidate. I still cannot believe Furlano went the distance. Of course, I bet the under on that fight. Anyone know anyone giving Nick a shot in that fight? And Aaron had nothing.

John Tate, another although the victim of a brutal ko. But he dropped from an A grade to C grade guy overnight.

That Weaver loss blew out the candles. Then the idea of sticking him in there with Berbick--in Canada--90 days later was not what would be deemed a stellar management decision. After the Berbick loss, it was pretty much ESPN fights and sloppy decision wins against the third tier guys. At best. No reflexes no motor skills no anything.

 

Lionel Rose.

 

Wilfred Benitez. His decline after the Thomas Hearns fight was alarming.



Jimmy Young - Ditto post Ken Norton bout.

 

Great call.

Once Olivares destroyed him Lionel went at just a 50% win loss ratio for the remainder of his career and his career was over at 28 years of age. But as a world class fighter he was done by 21.

A sad decline for a rare talent.

 

:goodAgreed

 

:goodSuperb shout on Benitez. Peaked early as well. The Hearns fight was when he was in his mid 20s.

 

Mike Tyson

 

Young won "comeback of the year" in 1981

 

Terry mcgovern lost his title to Young Corbett in a big upset after losing his temper and in the return got stopped again.
From then on his decline was rapid.

 

This is true. I recall reading that at the time in one of the American boxing mags but he did n't really beat anyone of note in that period.

 

Nigel Benn post-McClellan was terrible. His balance, timing and coordination (and speech) were gone, his punches often depressingly out of range. He actually had a lot of scar tissue on the brain that showed up on x-ray post-McClellan.

 

Martinez decline was a direct result of an injury. Roy's decline was due to draining himself back to 175

 

I'll always dispute that claim about Jones. The reason is that he looked like he was back to his old self against Tarver for the first round and a half before Tarver drilled him with the same punch Del Valle did. Tarver beat a few other guys with that punch too. It could've happened at any point in his career. We don't really know if Roy lost his legs because the fight ended so early. After that, Roy lost his confidence and was done.

 

Benny Lynch?