Most promising prospects to fall short?

no i was talking to you personally to get an honest response from you.

but appealing to national pride is a good way to finding out what people really think.

 

Depending on your expations Zab Judah is a very good example. Yes he won world tittles at 140 and 147 but there was talk of him being a possible all time great. He was billed as Pernell Whitaker with power. While he has had a very good career he did not live up to many peoples expations of him.
Getting knocked out in the first round is never a good thing but I'd hold off on my judgment of Amir Khan. At 21 he can still recover from this defeet.

 

aye zab is a great example.

it stil frustrates me that a guys with that speed and footwork can lack the maturity and all-round skills to have made it to the next level.

zab had awesome natural talent but i think he got too much ego and lack of discipline from his dad.

 

werd, i dont see him as a future superstar at all...I see the likes of margo, cotto, williams, even cintron tearing him apart

 

David Reid even though he won a world title, Audley Harrison, and Zahir Raheem

 

david reid for many reasons not all of his makings

 

Andrew Golota, I have lost count how many times he "fall short".

He whooped Riddick Bowe's ass twice but lost by DQ. After that, I beleive Golota was even favored to beat Lennox Lewis. I still don't know WTF hapend in that fight, Golota was ready to go down before he was even hit. I have never seen a bigger choke job. He took Bowe's punches pretty good, and Bowe no doubt was a big heavyweight puncher. I think his biggest problem is he has no heart. He quit against Tyson when he was fine to continue, he never even wanted to be in the ring to start. Golota could of had success , he takes the fight past 5, 6 rounds against that version of Tyson.

 

in my mind both these jokers have already been exposed

duddy by smichet and lorenzo by an ANCIENT but motivated raul marquez

 

A-Farce, Nae-Force, Fraudley whatever you want to call him and China Chinned Khan.

 

Joel Julio, Rey Bautista and most recently AJ Banal and Amir Khan.:dead

 

Monty Meza Clay

 

Anyone who won a major title and made millions can't be considered a bust, is the point of this thread really that difficult to understand?? People were just wrong about Zab and Breland, period. They did what they could and have had extremely respectable and long running careers.

Ricardo Williams and Bojado as the runners-up, The Pres in second place and the winner is Tony Ayala Jr. for all-time most wasted talent.

You could probably throw Bernard 'Superbad' Mayes in there. Scuttlebutt has it he could have an ATG if he could have stayed out of the bottle.

 

Not a heart problem, a mental problem. Golota has crippling anxiety attacks.

 

There it is. We live in an era of paper championships won and vacated by weight class jumping glory hounds. Winning a belt doesn't mean half of what it used to.

 

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