Great Fighters never the same after a loss

Donald Curry circa mid-80s was bad-ass. His 2 round destruction of Milton McCory was possibly the dominating performance between two undefeated champs/titlists.

Felix Trinidad never really mentally recovered from the loss to Bernard Hopkins, IMO. It took a good deal of his desire, hence his inactivity.

 

hamed was done after mab

 

id say roy jones after the win against ruiz. looked sluggish against tarver, then got ko'ed in the rematch. not sure if it was the wieght gain/loss or age or combination of the 2. guess it doesnt meet the criteria of the thread but it's quite shoking how he was so dominant and then just became ordinary so quickly

 

Perfectly put, but on a completely different subject you cant mess with my boy LeBron James.

 

Curry was the local Fort Worth fighter(with the hometown trainer Dave Gorman) who at one time was one of the top fighters in the world.

But the typical boxing thing happened when an "outside group" muscled in on Gorman and convinced Curry he should drop Dave.

A distracted Curry got beat up by Honeyghan, then lost additional fights in the future as his will to win declined. And of course, when the "Group" had milked everything from Curry as a boxer, they dumped him and sent him back to Ft. Worth.

I have talked to Gorman several times at local fights about what happened to Curry.

 

Curry trained in some pretty "basic" quarters around Fort Worth and I think on a ranch. He would have needed to move up in his facilities no matter what because training methods were changing.

Remember, at that time there were a bunch of really good welters & Jr Middleweights around, besides Leornard, Hearns & Duran.

I know a Hagler - Curry fight was being projected, but my opinion is Curry was not ready for that fight until 18 months in the future.

Dave Gorman had groomed Curry from as kid, and the trust and bond was broken.....and a bunch of money lost.

Gorman thought Curry could have become 15% better....and what that means my other fellow posters will have to decide.

 

And neither can mess with my boy T-MAC
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Tyson Obviously. Once the invincblity was broken he was done.

 

I agree, he wasnt unbeatable anymore. He was champ again in 95-96, but he wasnt the champ he used to be, I really believe if he wouldve beat Holyfield he might of went down as the best boxer of all time.

 

Acelino Freitas, no doubt

Fernando Vargas, shot