From Unbeaten Beasts to Broken Men. Fighters Who Really were never the same again???

Scott Gammer (albeit he wasn't a 'beast' :yep).

Edit: Speaking of Brit heavy's, Pele Reid as well.

 

Don't know if this counts, but how about Mbulelo Botile? Looked like a million bucks against Ingle (had only suffered one loss before that, to the very good Tim Austin), but the tragedy of that fight seems to have affected him. Lost three in a row (over the space of four or five years) and retired.

 

Alfonso Zamora was never the same following his crushing loss to bitter rival Carlos Zarate.

 

The random Karate man streaker was never the same after the beating he took from security

 

Zarate vs Zamora is an awesome fight.

 

I found a good one:deal

Ivan "Choco" Hernandez.

Looked like the next big thing down at Super Flyweight after wrenching the title away from Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson by KO, when Choco was only 21 or 22 years of age.

Two fights down the line he runs into Fernando Montiel (who Johnson had beat for the title). In another refutation of the A beats B, B beats C, so A should beat C argument, Montiel punishes Choco badly to the body and stops him in the 7th round. Hernandez hasn't been the same since; he's still only 27, but he looks done at world level.

 

Steve Molitor Certainly hasn't looked at all the same since he got destroyed by Cabellero. I hope he does well in his title fight (and probably title reign). But honestly the last fight I saw him get dropped by some no hoper so I can't say he has much left.

 

Hes looked pretty good though, and the Knockdown wasnt a bad one, just a lucky punch IMO.

He still looks sharp and a good counter puncher.

 

Fair play Mandanda :good let me know what you thought of it mate.

It's a quality scrap between two of my top 3 Bantamweight punchers (Zamoras up there due to the sheer power he generates, horrific)

I think their records going in were 28-0(28) and 45-0(43)

Greg, they guy in the undies and vest gets slaughtered by the Mexican old bill :rofl

 

Going back to the 60's there was Frankie "The Tiger" Taylor, gold medallist in the 61, Europeans. Not many British fighters have achieved that! He Got off to a great start, big box office. 2 huge domestic fights with Lennie the Lion Williams from Wales. He was all set up for a challenge to Howard Winstone' which would of been even bigger when he ran into future World Lightweight champ, Carlos Teo Cruz. he lost that on points and was then KO'd by Dos Santos in 2. One more winning fight and he called it a day at 23. He was the boxing correspondent for the Sunday People for years after his retirement.