GREAT BOXING ENIGMAS: Fighters who SHOULD have achieved so much more........

David Tua....he ran into Winchell's Donuts

 

david reid and panchito bojado...audley harrison??? and it is a damn shame teo stevenson and savon never defected

 

Ike Ibeabuchi

 

u can't really actually achieve more than him tho...most fighters would give their left nut to be in his shoes

 

It's kinda amusing what he expect from fighters. 3 of these fighters listed were Undisputed Champions. Mike Tyson, Zab Judah, and Jermain Taylor. I do understand the gripe though. All 3 are said to fight on a half tank full of gas. Those New Yorkers I think have too many outside distractions and are not as dedicated as they once were in their careers.

 

I wouldn't. It takes ball(s) to be a fighter!!

 

Gerald McClellan not so much an enigma, but a sad story. One of the many tragedies of the sport:-(

 

normally beating bhop twice is enough to call it a career and a damn fine one...but jermain could have been so much more. i'm pulling for him big time in this tourney. go get'em jermain!!!

 

Please no one say Zab Judah. I am sick of that Cliché he reached the level he was supposed to IMO.

 

From what I have read about David Reid he had major eye isues even before he turned pro and his career was somewhat doomed from the start. Which is one of the reasons he got his tittle shot which he won so early in his career.

 

Zab Judah. He was billed as Prenell Whitaker with power. He has been a very good boxer but if he was as good as advertivsed he would have been a top 10 maby top 5 all time great.

 

Danny "Little Red" Lopez: He should have side stepped Sanchez and moved up. Danny was having trouble making 126 by 1980, and he was never going to beat Sal anyway. In fact, if you genetically engineered a fighter for the express purpose of beating Lopez, you couldn't do better than Sanchez. Arguello was at 135 by that time, so Danny could have moved up, and had a few more years on top.