jeff lacy - the guy (barring the anomaly with omar sheika) was knocking dudes the **** out pre calzaghe and shoulder injury..post calzaghe and shoulder injury hasn't stopped anybody since...and only his fight with manfredo was, to me, his only clear cut win the rest were robberies and flat out clear defeats
ever since terry's chin was cracked by julian jackson it was never the same but the reports of him having flat out wars in sparring sessions prolly brought on his decline more culminating with him just falling apart all of a sudden to keith mullings of all ppl:bart
Not a good pick there..... Hagler of '86 wasted Mugabi in a thriller and chased Leonard's running ass all over the ring in losing a **** hair decision in 1987... MR.BILL:hat
Aaron Pryor comes to mind. After that 2nd Arguello fight the ballgame was over. He looked just awful against Furlano and it looked like a whole different set of reflexes in there.
As far as I know, Honeyghan-Breland is the only fight where a former world champion was knocked down with a jab on two different occasions.
Kessler changed his style completely but I'd hardly say he slid. A win over Froch is still a very good win, certainly not a fight he would of casually dominated a few years ago.
Tommy Morrison's career was seemingly all over post Foreman... He struggled with Tim Tomashek in his first match post Foreman, Tim being literally pulled from the stands as a last second replacement. Following that poor performance he's wiped out in one by Michael Bentt. After that? Done and done.
John Conteh. Granted, he'd become more and more inconsistent during the late 70's due to his partying ways outside of the ring, but he seemed to regain his old form in what was to be his last hurrah against Saad Muhammad in their first bout. After that, he was done.
I agree. Nobody had come close to standing up to The Beast like that and lived to tell about it. (Hard Rock Green was a total bad ass with Mugabe, but his facial skin let him down badly, as it had against Fletcher.) Punching Hagler into submission remained as impossible as ever.
Did you ever read that george francis book? He talks about Mugabi before that Green fight and him catching the guy eating slop burgers and guzzling a 2 litre coca cola 2 hours before weigh in. And all the weight Mugabi had to lose. The guy was as undisciplined a trainer as the sport has seen and still put together a helluva scrapheap.
Good answer. Tommy had really appeared to turn his career around with Foreman. He stood up to good shots, demonstrated surprising mobility and and smarts, and didn't run out of gas, although he was still noticeably tiring at the end. Ruddock was a thrilling future win, but Bentt utterly shattered the credibility he'd rebuilt with the Foreman win.
I beg to differ. Neither Leonard nor Mugabi would've lasted that long against an early 80's Hagler. Late 80's Marvin was considerably slower.
I think Curry was burned out early...I remember reading he had a long amateur career and here are two people havent mentioned: george foreman (1st incarnation)and Iran Barkley