Fighters looking past their opponent.

AJ vs Ruiz 1. Tyson Fury vs Wallin.

 

Recently, Zolani Tete. Exposed as the Warren hype train he is (tho still a good fighter).

You do NOT underestimate a guy like Casimero. Simple as.

 

I don't know if Hearns was looking past Barkley in 1988 but he was just on autopilot and thinking he had an easy win. That was enough for most guys, but Barkley was motivated and he came to fight.

 

Tyson vs Douglas?

 

Everyone good against Sergio Mora it seems. Maybe he's better than I thought. But I expected vernon forrest and shane mosley to perform way better than that. At least forrest showed his true class in the second fight.

 

Did JRock look past his last opponent?

 

Vivian Harris vs Carlos Maussa
Lennox Lewis vs Vitali Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko vs Corrie Sanders
Erik Morales vs Zahir Raheem
Ricky Hatton vs Luis Collazo
Lennox Lewis vs Hasim Rahman

Just a few off the top of my head.

 

Charlo with Tony the Tiger
Sugar Shane and Forest
Tyson Douglas
Klit & Fury

 

Don Curry ( against Honeyghan )

 

I remember around the time that Lennox Lewis fought Rahman he was asked if he would take a break mid training camp to shoot a cameo for a movie if his opponent was Mike Tyson. He admitted that he wouldn't and that he also really didn't regard Rahman as that much of a threat. Whoops! He also arrived in high altitude South Africa 10 days before the fight while Rahman had been already there a full month prior. Clearly looking past Rahman and not paying attention to business as his mind was on Tyson. I'm surprised that Manny Steward allowed all these distractions. He knew better.

 

He definitely did for 2 reasons. First, immediately after the weigh-in, he accused Banana of being happy just to be there. Second, he seemed gassed after 4 rounds, when he was fighting with his mouth wide open.

 

Mosley definitely did not look past Forrest. They had history from the amateur days PLUS there’s no way he would’ve made it to the final bell against that version of Forrest without being in absolute tip-top shape. Remember, Forrest made Shane scream out loud with a body shot in round 9 or 10 that should’ve ended the fight. Shane was Sugar that night, just not sweet enough to deal with Forrest.

 

Prince Patel he even wanted to get in a time machine and fight the welsh man Barry Jones

 

Both AJ & Andy Ruiz looked past each other, Andy Ruiz over-confidence & self-belief was the main reason he won that fight.

If Andy Ruiz didn't under-estimate Anthony Joshua, he would have been much more careful, possibly skip the KD & lost the fight via UD (closer to what happened in the rematch)