Fights that ruined a fighter's career , irrespective of win or loss?

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  1. Conteh'sLeft

    Conteh'sLeft Active Member Full Member

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    Fights which completely changed the trajectory of a fighter's career for the worse.

    The one fresh in my mind due to a recent rewatch is Bute-Froch, Bute was a very talented fighter and the favorite going in the fight but Froch completely annihilated him and since then his confidence was never the same and he lost to guys much less talented than him.

    Plus his left uppercut to the body was a killer shot.

    Let's discuss.
     
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  2. IsaL

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    Mexican zone, Julio Cesar Chavez KO Meldrick Taylor with two seconds to go
    Puerto Rico's Tito Trinidad with that guillotine left hook, shattering any man that comes across it often.
    That was until he met the veteran Executioner Hopkins.
    Fernando Vargas was running his mouth, that was before Oscar De La Hoya knocked him out.

    -Jermz Boxing
     
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    Fighters who were never the same after winning:

    Corrales after beating Castillo
    Margarito after beating Cotto

    Both winners took a hell of a lot of punishment in those fights and were never the same.

    Also, both Morales and Barrera started showing some signs of deterioration after their first fight.
     
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  4. The Real Lance

    The Real Lance Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Tito shortened Vargas' career big time
    RIgo had a good hand in stopping the Donaire freight train
    Vernon Forrest took Shane Mosely's confidence and heart
    Maidana stopped the Ortiz hype train
     
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  5. Conteh'sLeft

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    Moseley bounced back pretty well and though he never looked the same and should have lost the ODLH fight that followed, he did pretty well and scalped some good names later on.

    Donaire had a late resurgence too, so not exactly ruined.

    Rest are okay.
     
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  6. The Real Lance

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    I don't know. SSM only beat one top level guy since his first fight w/ Oscar. That being Antonio Margarito, whom many don't consider as much. The rest of his wins were against lower ten-ish contenders and a shot Vargas and Mayorga.
     
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  7. Conteh'sLeft

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    Moseley was ancient by the time he beat Margarito and acquitted himself pretty well in all the fights he had so all things considered, not exactly ruined.
     
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    tommy morrison's chin was never the same after running into ray mercer comes to mind.
     
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  9. The Real Lance

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    Well...1 big win in ten years is what it really accounts to. POst Vernon Forrest, Shane was simplt not the same. Gun shy and too timid. And it killed me to see him fighting like that. Was a huge SSM fan, until the BALCO stuff came out.
     
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    Ward vs Kovalev 1. It's said Kovalev was never the same after getting robbed
     
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    Vargas loss against Trinidad, imo.
     
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    zab judah after kostya tszyu was not the same. more cautious.

    naseem hahmed REALLY was deflated after the marco antonio berrera fight.
     
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    That was quite nasty and unnecessary the way Mercer unloaded on a unconscious Morrison .
     
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    Jeff Lacy's career obliterated by the Dragon's Breath aka death by a thousand slaps.
     
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  15. Reinhardt

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    The textbook definition of a fight that ruined a career: See Davey Moore vs Duran
    also Cuevas vs Hearns
    Zamora after getting ko'ed by Zarate
     
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