Fighters with incredible power who didn't use it

Cheers Eddie. Davis and Rosario were my two favorite lightweights at the time so i was pretty deep into them. While not Macbeth Davis never winning a title was a little tragedy for me.

 

If you look back at Whitakers title fights, he actually knocked down alot of opponents but never really went in for the kill.

Expect when he was behind vs Hurtado. That fight showed how dangerous Whitaker could be, when he turned into seek and destroy mode.

 

Oooh. @cross_trainer Shane Mosley. Man kept his guns holstered for entire fights sometimes, holding off on the wrist breaker shots for little pew pew pew taps. Weird case of a guy with from what I can tell had a great chin but refused to engage. He did lose something after leaving 135lbs.

 

He was a lovely, gentle guy by all accounts. I think there was a write up on him and his dad around the Jim Watt fight by Hugh McIlvanney, arguably Britain's second greatest writer after the guy you referenced in your post above.

I liked Chapo too. Something about his bouncy style appealed and I was hoping he could rebound after the Chavez mauling.

 

He was a pretty good trainer too was Howard from all accounts. Hugh was always good.

Poor Edwin was never the same after Chavez even if he did win two more titles. All he had left was the punch and oh my what a punch. I'd like to know exactly when the drug and alcohol abuse set in too as that would not have overly helped.

 

I think he was generally inspired by Ali when it came to toying with his opponents.

 

Good point buddy, heard a podcast featuring Nunn the other day, a up to date one, and he was lamenting that the scribes and fighter's of his day were adamant he couldn't punch, and was a light puncher, he went on to say out of the 8 champs ( not bad ) he beat, only 3 went the distance ! so deceiving puncher in some ways... stay safe amigo.

 

Yep. Didn’t want to hurt his hand

 

Yes. Botha and Golota too.

 

Joe protected his hands no doubt. However it's also a case of defining 'incredible' power.

 

Benitez had power when he wanted to. The Maurice Hope KO is just brutal.

 

Opposed to popular belief "The Hurricane" got turned into "The Breeze" when faced with adversity, he went gun shy against Tiger and didn't want to commit to anything that'd get him hurt/countered. I'd seen one other of his fights can't remember who it was again but he kept his hands in the holster.

 

Cus confirmed this.

 

Sven Ottke could hit pretty hard, had more single-punch power than Arthur Abraham, but barely used it.

 

Jose Luis Lopez. He wouldnt let his hands go. Ike Quartey barely survived.