Name A Single Event That Changed A Fighter's Career

Tyson Fury faking breaking his ankle to avoid the Wladimir rematch.

Yes, he and his team admitted it.

 

Jarrell Miller testing positive and getting his title fight with Joshua cancelled, paving way for Andy Ruiz to show up on short notice to pull off one of the bigger title-fight upsets in HW history.

 

Eric Sloane going up against Tong Po... His brother Kurt begged him to cancel the fight, but we all know what happened that fateful day. Sometimes fighters egos are just too big.

 

For a guy that fought this weekend...

Haymon "advising" Quillin to drop his belt and forgo his big payday, to get bigger fights and paydays in the near future.
He then got ridiculed by the fans, went 3-2-1-1 over the next 5 years, never got hold of another belt and the big payday never came.

 

In 2001, Edwin Valero had a pretty bad motorcycle accident in which he fractured his skull and if I remember correctly he had a metal plate put inside his skull. So yeah IMO that definitely kickstarted the issues Valero had in his personal life.

 

@emallini was a promising fighter back in 1999. While travelling overseas to compete in his 3rd professional bout he was groped and molested by TSA. He subsequently performed badly later that evening in his scheduled bout.

The combination of TSA's thorough rectal examination, and the humiliating defeat he suffered permanently impacted his manhood. He was never able to partake in contact sports again.

In the movie "Me, Myself & Irene" Jim Carrey's character was based loosely on @emallini's story, in how a single tragic event lead to the drastic suppression of anger and the ability to deal with any form of confrontation.

The movie which was released a year after @emallini retirement from boxing revolved around a different series of events, which were non-boxing related, although it did well to portray many of the irrational psychotic symptoms @emallini still suffers from today as a result of anger suppression, such as long periods of passive aggressive behavior, and then short spells of narcissist rage at fellow members of this forum such as myself.

Personally, I always say life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you deal with it. It's unfortunate that a once aspiring fighter was pushed so far over the edge and robbed of a promising career - this certainly explains his rage towards successful fighters today that have come from a difficult background.

Let this be a lesson to us all.

 

Norwood beating Marquez.

You could also say the Chris John loss. Both of these really delayed Marquez's career and lose quite a bit of esteem in fans minds.

 

Salvador Sanchez and Maso Ohba literally died as great fighters.

Consequently, we never saw a (potential) decline.

 

George groves getting stopped in that first fight vs froch..... I don't think he ever looked as good again... Still a good fighter but to me he looked like he had the tools to be something pretty special on the way up.. He had so much ****in swagger when he was undefeated.

I was absolutely buzzing for him when he won his world title

 

Mike Tyson deciding to judge a beauty pageant

 

Ricky Womack and Ike Ibeabuchi

Why couldn’t these 2 have stayed outta trouble!?!?!?