GTFO, you've overstayed your welcome! (Most Ill-Advised Comeback Taking Place in the Next 2 Months?)

If some pampered millionaire like Joe Fournier without a significant background in combat sports can turn pro and even become world ranked (currently WBA #10) nothing is outside the scope of possibility for a healthy guy in the same age range who spent his entire life off & on since childhood involved with the sport in some capacity (sparring, learning, assisting in training others) and is daisy-fresh compared with most actual pros of the same age, who for the most part have taken exponentially more cephalic trauma. My relative inexperience makes for equal parts boon & bugaboo - it means I don't have the built-in muscle-memory of guys that have fought expansively in an official competition setting, but I also don't have the same wear & tear (while not coming in with the novice lack of knowhow that a layman would have never having set foot in a gym).

See also: Junlong Zhang, Ali Raymi. Guys that became world-ranked but who can't legitimately fight to save their lives. Now, I realize there are various circumstances involved with all of those situations that make them incomparable to my ambitions - given the lack of "connections" available to me and the fact that I don't want to fake my way in the first place - (fight-fixing in shady ass China on behalf of Zhang, the lack of a serious boxing scene or regulatory oversight in shady ass Yemen to invalidate Raymi's fake matches, and Fournier "beating" tomato cans in glorified spars and greasing some palms to get himself ranked) but I'm just looking to see how far I can realistically take it, knowing full well the risks and that one punch can easily change or even terminate a life (case in point, Roman Simakov, not a bad fighter whatsoever, and on paper seemed reasonably well-matched with then mostly unknown Sergey Kovalev, and it turned out to be a fatal mismatch. This is a dangerous sport. The night is long and full of terrors...) - and there's no way to know that without taking a stab at it.

IRREGARDLESS - this isn't about me. You can't stage a "comeback" if you're coming on for the first time.

Back on topic, I've decided to put up a poll, but we exceed the number of poll options available on Xenforo, by several names. Let's whittle it down to a most worrisome ten, shall we?

As stated earlier, Webster doesn't even belong on the list, he's a mediocre 35 year old who never had all that long a layoff, a pretty rank & file boxer actually, sort of just got swept up in the moment along with Ajamu on the same bill. So let's omit him, and I'm going to reiterate that Della Rosa, Butler, and Shkarupa don't exactly warrant getting up in arms. There's probably no point in them banging on, but they're not in any immediate danger of a bad outcome.

So that leaves us with these 15:

Giovani Segura -

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Sergey Khomitsky -

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Badi Ajamu -

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Antonio Tarver -

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Vivian Harris -

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Lisa Brown -

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Chevelle Hallback -

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Wilfredo Vázquez, Jr. -

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Martin Murray -

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Suriyan Satorn -

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Walter Wright -

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Sefer Seferi -

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Chauncy Welliver -

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Jean Pascal -

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Beibut Shumenov -

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So just to pare it down to fit a poll, we need to eliminate the four least problematic of these.

 

I'm thinking Khomitsky still can take care of himself, and hasn't been dillydallying on the shelf too long, and his opponent appears to be a feather-fist...

 

So we lop off Webster, Shkarupa, Butler, Della Rosa, Murray, Khomitsky, Seferi, Pascal...and maybe Welliver?

...and leave in Segura, Tarver, Ajamu, Harris, Brown, Vázquez, Satorn, Wright, and Shumenov as the "WTF are you thinking and who the hell is sanctioning this?!?!" list for the poll?

Any objections?

 

Last call for input..

 

Poll up.