Fighters who should have been GREAT but fell short

Joe Cortez is probably an ATG referee. I agree.

 

What I was thinking. He sure went down after Honeyghan beat him. Then McCallum beat him soon after. 2 knockout losses in one year.

 

there weren't any all-time greats.

 

Max Baer

 

Sergei Kobozev

 

i agree and also won some money on that fight.

he was too flawed fundamentally to step up to the elite level of the sport. the greats like sanchez, saddler and pep would of badly exploited these flaws

 

he never cleaned out his division. he never fought Juan Manual Marquez, Lusito Espinosa, freddie norwood. dereck gainer. he give up his ibf title to avoid marquez and don't tell me there was no point in fighting espinosa. lusito destroyed kennedy mckinney in 1998. mckinney was lined up to fight Naz. he was an established champ

naz only fought kevin kelly and tom johnson when they were on the shot side. kelly nearly shot him down. that fight really exposed naz

vuyani bungu was inactive for 2 years before he fought naz and was moving up in weight

the rest he beat where nothing to brag

 

Eddie Mustafa Muhammed, If he defeated Spinks in thier proposed Nonfight. His stock would have went up dramatically.

Or Braxton same situation if he defeated Spinks and later Holyfield.

 

esteban de jesus and ken buchanan. both were great great fightters who were unfortunate to come along when a certain top 3 ATG fighter came along

they will never be credited with greatness because of this

fernando vargas could of been if he hadnt of had so many hard fights early on

riddick bowe is one who had all the tools for greatness.

 

meldrick taylor, the potential he had was amazing

fernando vargas, same

 

I don't really agree with Taylor either, but guys like Conteh, Mustafa Muhammad, etc. all had the goods. Everyone knows I agree with Bowe as well.

 

why not

 

He'd have always been the same type of fighter, and would've always been vulnerable to the bigger punchers. Very exciting fighter no doubt, but it takes more than great handspeed to make a great fighter, and he had too many liabilities.

 

he had great heart and boxing skills to go along with that handspeed, i agree he was vunreable but look what he did to Chavez for 11 rounds out boxed him and out fought him that is a sign of a champion. a great champion.

I can see where your coming from but i think he could have become a top 50 P4P with his skillset and physical ability.

 

He had the physical tools, but I don't believe he had the skill-set. Too much of a fighter's mentality to hang with most of the bigger punching types that I mentioned. Chavez fought a very good fight there as well, people tend to overlook how well he did. Taylor outlanded and thus outscored him due to his handspeed, but Chavez was in the fight the whole way through, just grinding him down.