Bandwaggons you were on that faltered/failed?

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  1. TommyV

    TommyV Loyal Member banned

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    I used to be on the Guzman bandwagon, now I'm not even a fan of the guy. It didn't exactly crash, but it sort of fell off the rails when he was so inactive and the situation with the Campbell fight.
     
  2. cheekyvid

    cheekyvid Detroit, I shall return. Full Member

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    im afraid to say i was aboard the pavlik pickup truck...that didnt get me far, especially when i put money on him to stop b-hop :patsch
     
  3. kosaros

    kosaros Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Domestically...I like Brian Rose, but he was stopped by Max Maxwell recently, can still come back without a doubt though. Trevor Crewe lost twice in a row as soon as I was on the bandwagon...again, he can still come back.

    On the world stage, I was/am still on the Hasegawa bandwagon, but his loss to Montiel was devastating. JuanMa's, despite not losing, felt like it faltered when he was almost stopped by Mtagwa. Ji-Hoon Kim and Henry Lundy lost recently, and I like both of those guys.
     
  4. Beeston Brawler

    Beeston Brawler Comical Ali-egedly Full Member

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    I used to be a pretty big Haye fan back in the day...... now I cannot stand the guy.

    Others..... I really thought Jamie Moore was going to do it, get past Rhodes and finally get a title fight.

    Paul Williams is another.... at one stage I thought he could be anything, then there was the Pavlik farce and him trying to demand fights with little guys like Pacquiao..... and the non-performance against Kermit the Frog.
     
  5. Guy

    Guy Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Audley Harrison
     
  6. Losfer_Words

    Losfer_Words Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    On a sombre note, Valero is the biggest one, I suppose. He didn't fail per se, but he did **** up a very promising future through his own actions, albeit whilst suffering from mental illness. After the DeMarco fight I was genuinely jumping on the Valero hype and it seemed such a travesty when he started to go downhill. All of that is insignificant when you consider that he took an innocent person out of this world, though.

    After that I'd say I was massively wrong about Dawson and I, like many others at the time I'd guess, thought Margarito was going to destroy everything after the Cotto fight. There are plenty of smaller calls I have got wrong, but those are the only big ones that come to mind at the moment.

    EDIT: Mijares is a great example as well!!!!:patsch
     
  7. JFT96

    JFT96 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Is it too early to say David Haye's 1 Man Heavyweight Saviour Crusade. Chris John was 1 who I thought would move on a lot and be top 5 p4p by now but hes struggled against Juarez and is getting on now. Still you never know, I still favour him over Gamboa
     
  8. Beeston Brawler

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    For some reason I've never taken to Dawson, either as a man or a fighter.

    Still, he's nowhere near as irritating as Dirrell. The only thing AA did wrong was not whacking him much harder.
     
  9. BunnyGibbons

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    "Kid Dynamite" Walker

    Enjoyed his comebacks on ITV...until he didn't come back

    Felt a bit sorry for him, choking back tears on the post-fight interviews
     
  10. One Round

    One Round Hertfordshire's Finest Full Member

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    Kevin Mitchell. He can still come back and do something but it'll be a hard road ahead of him. I had him to take Katsidis to school. Sometimes you just let your heart rule your head.
     
  11. The Chosen

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    Hatton doing a job on Floyd.

    Maybe I was just caught in the hype.
     
  12. LHL

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    I think almost all of us were on that horror crash, actually remember a decent enough RBR going on a wednesday morning or something for it :lol:

    Williams was another one for me but haven't really jumped back on since the 1st Qunintana fight he isn't the same fighter just throws and throws now before that he was actually a good boxer.
     
  13. safc1990

    safc1990 Goodbye Bolo :( Full Member

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    I was on the Crewe wagon for a while.

    Attempted to get a Tony Jeffries Express going after his first few fights (that was when he still showed some decent fundamentals) and now that has been derailed for the time being, the Banbula fight could be the best thing that could have happened to him if he learns from it in the right way.
     
  14. zico2010

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    I thought Howard Eastman was gonna do more at world level than he did. Never again will i overestimate a man just coz he looks scary.
     
  15. wrimc

    wrimc Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I was definitely on the Jamie Moore to spark Rhodes early and win a world title straight after bandwagon.