Undefeated Champions / Prospects that left the sport too early

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  1. Pepsi Dioxide

    Pepsi Dioxide Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Joey Archer?

    But Frankie Gomez was the first one I thought of first.

    Terry Marsh as well?
     
    Pepsi Dioxide, Sep 8, 2022
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    Laszlo Papp.. arguably the greatest amateur ever who was building a successful professional career but Hungary's Communist leadership brought that to an end by denying him an exit visa. Who knows what we missed out on there.. I think he was set to face giardello.. a good fighter but I think papp would have been the favourite... consider too that papp had wins both professionally and in the amateurs over guys like elsworth webb and tiger Jones who both defeated giardello.. papp would definitely have gone on to become a middleweight champion in my opinion
     
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  3. HolDat

    HolDat Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Bizarre end to his career. Walters seemed heavily affected by a one year layoff (common) before losing to Loma. I'm guessing there's more to his story.
     
    HolDat, Sep 8, 2022
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    He said no mas and we never saw him again .. it was very strange but maybe he was just genuinely humiliated and emasculated by Loma.. I don't know
     
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  5. MidniteProwler

    MidniteProwler Fab 4. Mayor of Aussie Boxing Full Member

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    Ward, Pavlik, Naseem Hamed, Pirog, Bradley
     
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    HolDat Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I wish he fought Rigo.
     
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  7. JunlongXiFan

    JunlongXiFan 45-6 in Kirks Chmpionshp Boxing Predictions 2022 Full Member

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    Junlong getting frozen out so early was a huge loss to the sport. He has a KO 1 over a cruiser champ who was champ six months prior to fighting him, and went 3-0 against Zhilei Zhang as an amateur, KOing him every time. He had a brutal right hook and could leap with it in a way that defied his size.
     
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  8. Pirog style

    Pirog style New Member banned Full Member

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    Russia probably has the most of any country

    undefeated
    Dmitry Pirog
    Alexander Besputin
    Artem Chebotarev
    Alexander Bakhtin
    Rostislav Plechko
    Egor Mekhonstev
    Vyacheslav Barsukov
    Andrey Afonin
    Adlan Abdurashidov

    with just 1 loss
    Denis Inkin
    Grigory Drozd
    Zaurbek Baysangurov
    Anton Novikov
    Vadim Tokarev
    Mikhail Aloyan
    Magomedrasul Medzhidov
    Vasily Lepikhin
    Medzhid Bektemirov
     
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  9. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member Full Member

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    Yeah Frankie Gomez. What a wasted talent.
     
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    Alexander Frenkel the Ukraine/German cruiserweight,he left the sport when 23/0 his last fight a KO of Macarinelli .
     
    Mickc, Sep 11, 2022
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  11. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member Full Member

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    Aww not Todd498, the Toad!
     
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  12. JunlongXiFan

    JunlongXiFan 45-6 in Kirks Chmpionshp Boxing Predictions 2022 Full Member

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    How did nobody say Papp? Three time Olympic gold medalist, wasn't allowed to continue his pro career right before a title fight.
     
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    My first thought.
     
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  14. Pirog style

    Pirog style New Member banned Full Member

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    man that guy was a beast! forgot about him. He certainly would have been expected to have won a world title and been a huge force at cruiserweight. What happened to him ? weird how after his breakthrough biggest win he just stopped boxing like that.
     
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  15. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member Full Member

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    Green.
     
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