Highly Successful Short Careers

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  1. Ted Spoon

    Ted Spoon Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Not just bullets like Terry McGovern but numerically slim careers like Ray Leonard.

    Name 'em.
     
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    Harada
     
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    Are short careers determined by amount of fights or by length of years?
     
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    Stanley Ketchell was a pro for what, 6 or 7 years? Same as Pancho Villa. But they packed in a fair few fights.

    Michael Spinks only had 32 fights
     
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    Jeff Chandler.
    Ray Mancini.
     
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    There will of course be a whole raft of fighters who were successful and who had their careers cut short for one reason or another beyond their own control, guys like :
    Terry Marsh / Zack Padillia / Harold Knight / Lamar Parks etc
    Er..Legal Incarceration will of course be another reason (albeit James Scott springing to mind )

    Fighters who walk away whilst successful are no doubt much rarer, and may of course have other pressures Lazlo Papp (political) and Jamal Hinton (religious)
    spring to mind.

    Some ex star amateurs probably get a rude awakening in the pro ranks, No Headguards, 3 minute rounds, longer distances, and Pro "Ruffians" trying to disembowel them and take their head off.... who drift away with projected success unforfilled. - its a rough old game for sure.
     
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    If you don't consider his comeback 7 years later Jimmy Carruthers (less than 4 years)
     
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    Not counting the Johnson comeback in 1910, James J. Jeffries had a highly successful career from 1895 to 1904, having just over 20 pro fights, winning the title in his 13th.

    Also, Rocky Marciano's pro career lasted from 1947 through 1955.
     
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    David Reid
    Salvador Sanchez
     
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  10. bez

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    might not count but leonard and tysons careers pretty much only went for 5yrs.
     
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    Aaron Pryor. 40 fights.
     
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    Nigel Benn did a lot in less than 10 years.
     
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    In pro' boxing, Saensak Muangsurin.

    WBC champ' within 3 fights, and two top ten ranked fighters in his two fights before that. In '77, made seven defences.
     
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    Gomez comes to mind. Not a particularly long career, although half his fights (Or close to it) were title fights.
     
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    Even by classic forum standards it surprised me a little 2d bad 2c it took so long until Salvador Sanchez was mentioned . 4 that he deserves another mention here .
     
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