Biggest personal Dissappointments fights/fighters/performances

After Ali Frazier Foreman Spinks, Olympic Golds were supposed to become champs , so Ty Biggs was never gonna reach the expected heights.

 

More hope than expectation

 

Shane Mosley He was great , but not as great as i thought he'd be. He was supposed to become "THE MAN"

 

Frazier getting stopped by Foreman
Holmes coming out of retirement for Tyson
Franklin being shot for Braxton
Duran being off against Benitez weather it was over training disinterested or something. He just didnt seem like he cared to be there that evening.
Kalambay getting caught by Nunn
Hearns not getting one over Barkley
Hagler fighting stupid against Leonard
Marquez and Barrera not fighting when Barrera wasnt heavy on the down slope.
Ali Liston 2 not being postponed due to Ali's hernia
Jimmy Young getting the decisions he deserved against Ali and Norton
GGG getting the 2 victories he deserved against Canelo
Pryor being clean in the first Arguello fight.
Losing 15 rds
Mancini not regaining his belt from the Rasta man. The Kim fight took alot out of his psyche .
I'm sure theres more but that's what I came up with on the fly

 

Andre Dirrell . I liked what i saw from this guy..but too much inactivity killed his career

 

Bobick being blasted and exposed by Norton,

 

Vernon Forrest post Mosley.

 

Weaver--Dokes #1 comes to mind.

Mike Weaver should have known exactly what was going to happen in that first round and fought, if possible, more defensively minded. He, or his corner, knew about those fast hands of Dokes and that quick left hook of his. Really a nice short and quick left hook and accurate as well. Weaver didn't need to even bother throwing a right hand for a few rounds. And they knew it was a title fight cross promotion against a DKP guy. And Arum sure didn't love Weaver and back him very much at all. So they would know they are not getting a break from the ref or on the scorecards. Just give away the early rounds and start to do things around the 5th round.

He'd have had his hands full with Dokes early anyway but he needed to get the bout to the 10th round or so. And Dokes had already stopped using his legs by this point so strategy like the Coetzee bout was what was going to be required. And Weaver takes the same punches better as the bout goes on. Really different than most heavies and that was going to be needed against a Dokes.

Being totally sweated up and raring to go wouldn't have hurt his cause either. He looked a little too dry and a stagnant during the pre-fight instructions. Not like a world champ defending his title---that was dokes who was fired up and ready.

And Weaver always did that fly swatting parry defense of his. He was just so slow at it and rarely deflected a punch anyway. He'd swat a fly though and it'd literally occur when the opponent had already brought his arm back. Kind of like a real slow metronome. And his hands would not be in position to throw anything either. So a guy with handspeed like a Dokes is always going to present a major set of problems.

 

David Tua comes to mind. Disappointing performances against Lewis, Byrd and Rahman. Jeff lacy is another. Didn't see him losing every round to Calzaghe going into that fight. He was never the same after.

 

He needed to be fully warmed up which would have helped him ship that first assault a bit better and be sharper. He wasn't even sweating.

He also needed to punch back a bit more once he got up via your accurate portrayal of the circumstances. Realistically he wasn't overly hurt and took almost all the follow ups on his gloves. On any standard day the heavyweight champion would not have been stopped anywhere near this point.

Weaver did not make the same mistakes in the rematch. He came in sweating heavily and got off first. Dokes then hurt him and dazzled him with handspeed but Weaver never stopped punching for too long. The bout actually settled down to the grind after 40 odd seconds after both had thrown their bombs.

No big robbery but Weaver should have won the rematch by a point or two.