Who Is Your Biggest Underachiever In Boxing For The Last 20 Years?

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  1. SonOfCuba

    SonOfCuba Well-Known Member Full Member

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  2. Jai C

    Jai C Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I must say he has let me down in a few fights, but to call a former undisputed champion an underachiever sounds kinda silly. The isn't really a higher honor for a boxer.
     
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    motownsiu Boxing Addict Full Member

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    lacy, and jt also are from the 2000 class, and the guy cotto koed in the pros but lost to in the olymics. i forgot his name. muhammed abdulev or something like that.
     
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    So how is that underachieving ?
    I just said i saw Douglas fight in the eighties and he was a contender in a hardly flush division. He ended up knocking out one of the most feared fighters of all time in one of the biggest upsets ever and became a household name, before getting spanked by Holyfield. Not exactly underachieving is it ?
     
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  5. Jai C

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    People there is a difference between underachieving and not reaching the expectations of critics.
     
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  7. TheGreat

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    He wasn't getting battered in that fight it was close maybe even before he quit against Tucker, Douglas wasn't a great but he was a very good fighter who had poor dedication, but he really got up to fight Tyson, after Tyson he reverted to his lazy self against Holyfield.
     
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  8. PIRA

    PIRA Arise Sir Lennox. Full Member

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    Mundine - multiple champion without fighting a live body.

    Plenty of talent but cares nothing about fans or a legacy - coin and no risk is the only thing that gets him actually fighting.
     
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  9. box101

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    jeremy half man half amazing willams such a stellar amateur but pro carrer never came to fruition just ? marks
     
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  10. FourtyOunce

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    he met Peter's left hook


    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-jg9vct2p8[/ame]
     
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