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

FOTC neither was the same after that

 

Nigel Benn after McClellan, even though Benn got the victory and produced a careeer best performance, he was never the same again.

Watch that McClellan fight and then watch any Benn fight after, that victory basically cost Benn his prime/career.

 

Lacy after Calzaghe was the first fight that comes to mind.
Mugabi after Hagler is another.

Both were stone killers up to that point.

 

Still US boxing media and fans a bit overestimated and still continue to overestimate damage Gerald had did on Nigel and underplay Nigel's skills in this fight.
Commentators, cards, of course, so hard beat up Nigel had get from US boxing hero promoted by Don King.
If you hit someone really properly and very hard and had seriously damaged him, he will not climb back in the ring in such fight.

I was a bit amused when a lot of ppl commenting this fights even did not had noticed timing and how Nigel had rolled with Gerlad's punches and sometimes even counted as landed punches Gerald did not had landed at all or did not had landed clean.
Even blows that had pushed him out of the ring had been partially rolled out by Nigel and price for this was Gerald's current shape.
Do not overestimate damage you or your boxer had did on opponent. This is reason why Gerald today is .

Of course, I agree that especially falling out of ring had damaged Nigel, still he was better and better than Jackson and Gerald.

Then some boxing fans and Gerald's circle had called Nigel as a killer, while Gerald before this fight had promised to KILL Nigel.
People should read Bible and especially Old Testament.

 

Chris Eubank v Michael Watson 2.

Eubank held something back in his fights after that night.

 

Foreman version 1 after losing to Ali. He later found God and reinvented and redeemed hisself into a loveable icon.

 

Yes. Who could forget the plethora of low blows that led to Wards win.

 

I do not think that Ali fight in Zaire had ruined Foreman mentally of physically.
Zaire is absolutely another universe if compare with US or UK or even Siberia in Russia. Yeah.
It is hole of the hell if compare with South Africa and this is like another planet here.
Don and Ali never had gave him rematch cos they had reason and for Don even Ali corpse was enough cool stuff to earn with vs Holmes and sorry, this Ali version did not had been considered to be fit to fight as am in " bad " Siberia in USSR or Russia or maybe South Africa.under Don in US, yeah, cool business stuff.
I really doubt that Ali from Holmes fight had get driver license in Germany or USSR.

Ali was cash cow and Formean not important after this fight.
While if Ali had lost, then rematches had happened to polish up cash cow: Frazier, Norton.
Ali from 70 ies was not Ali from 60 ies, it was wreck from ATG from 60 ies and fans are enough skilled to buy this management tale from 70 ies under HOLY Don.

 

Wlad crushed Brewster in the rematch, and the Sanders loss only temporarily setback klit.

 

Assume Kell Brook is the golden envelope answer

 

Good call. Brook before Golovkin was something of a force. After that he had an eggshell chin.

 

Both fighters got taken to hospital - Benn wasn't in a great state by any means.

Sure, he got off lightly compared with Gerald but he certainly took some real punishment too!

 

And therefore he was worse than Gerald ( KO artist vs no hopers until he get Jackson fight if to be fair, it was easy under Don ) or Jackson?
LOL.
Punishment from mediocrity in Gerald, I agree that huge power, good management and matchmaking and rude character might turn mediocrity like Gerald into champ and good " boxer".
Sorry, Gerald was caveman not elite boxer.

 

It's the first name that popped into my head. Benn got the win but the tragic circumstances took something from him that couldn't be replaced.