1 Fight Changed That Fighter Forever

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  1. julio cesar

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  3. Cage

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    Broner - Went completely off the cliff after that ass whoopin Maidana gave him

    Nassem Hamed - got beat up and decided he didnt want that to happen again so he quit

    Joe Mesi - never physically recovered from the Jirov fight and had to hang the gloves up

    I dont think Bowe was ever the same after his wars with Evander
     
  4. Ice8Cold

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    Riddick Bowe.
     
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    Broner/maidana
    Brook/golovkin
    David price/Thompson
     
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    Hagler/Mugabi
    Fury/Wilder
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    Takuma Inoue / Jerwin Ancajas

    Naoya Inoue / Aran Dipaen or Emmanuel Rodriguez

    Nonito Donaire / Nordine Oubaali or Simpiwe Vetyeka


    Lomachenko / Nicholas Walters

    Martin Bakole / Tony Yoka

    Yokthai Sithoar / Alimi Goitia

    Takefumi Sakata / Lorenzo Parra (the rematch)

    etc...
     
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    Meldrick Taylor first name that springs to mind.
     
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    David Reed after Trinidad.
     
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    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    James Degale after the Badou Jack fight
    That fight ruined him
     
  11. JusABoxinFan

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    Gamboa after Crawford.....was never the same afterwards.

    Errol Spence Jr after Crawford.....cared more about taking care of his horses than rematching a loss.

    Brook after GGG......

    Wilder after Fury 2.........
     
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    Kostya after Ricky Hatton.
     
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  13. Cage

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    oh yea, also Vic Darchinyan just never was able to quite have a consistent level of success after the Nonito Donaire loss. Up until that fight, he was 28-0 and had quite the ko ratio
     
  14. bjl12

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    Kovalev Ward 1. Sergei won that fight pretty cleanly but mentally (and physically) was never the same afterward.

    Ward Dawson

    Froch Bute

    Alexander Bradley

    Garcia Herrera (Danny was never the same)

    Matthyse Danny

    Postol Crawford

    Canelo Bivol

    RJJ v Tarver

    Trinidad v BHop

    DLH v Mosley 2 (DLH just checked out)
     
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