Most wasted career in Boxing

Maybe Blizzy???

If he wouldnt of prolapsed in his first fight who knows???

Ike 2nd.

 

I would have loved to have seen what would have become of Pirog. Not quite the same thing but I'm pretty gutted about how much ****ing around has been involved with Luis Ortiz, as well - not that his career is done yet but I rate the **** out of his skills etc and feel that he could almost have been more than a threatening force in HW right now.

Too much drama with drugs and management related crap which really shouldn't have happened has cost him the years he couldn't afford to lose. Still kinda hoping for the upset next month, though.

 

It has to be Valero.

 

Rigondeaux, Lara, Ricardo Lopez, or if you mean ended too soon then Salvador Sanchez and Stanley Ketchel.

 

Absolutely.
Ike became a jail bird and Pirog got sick.
Valero's death and his family's murder should have been investigated by an outside agency. How, at the peak of your career, just up and murder your family and yourself for no reason?
Venezuela was a super corrupt dictatorship and Edwin was about to move to it's so called enemy the United States. Hugo Chavez had that man murdered.

 

Didn't Valero tell the hotel workers he killed his wife while he was covered in her blood? Valero was just a violent nutcase. So was Ike. Pirog just hurt his back or something

 

You have no idea od what Ike was. He was headed to be the natural successor to Lennox Lewis. The Klitschko brothers wouldnt be champions

 

Didn't George Bush say Saddam Hussain had weapons of mass destruction? Don't the people of North Korea always praise their supreme leader? All I'm saying is it sounds like a mutha****a set up and a lie.

 

I mean, the dude had a history of drinking and beating his wife but ok.

 

I do know who Ike was, I followed his career and I voted for him because I thought he had most potential and best wins of all 3....

 

I figure there is an astronomical list of great amateurs who would have made for great pros.
At least with guys like Audley Harrison we got to see what they offered in the pro ranks.

 

What happened to him was a tragedy for him & for his trainer Curtis Cokes who had Ike & Kirk Johnson both capable of winning a title both were denued it for different reasons

 

i don't know enough about the other two, but i followed Dmitri Pirog and he was something special.

his fight vs Danny Jacobs (among others) is on youtube

a chronic back injury caused him to retire from boxing, probably well short of his peak, particularly given that he took up the sport quite late

he was an exceptionally smart fighter with excellent ring IQ, solid defense and KO power

his style involved frequent orthodox-southpaw swap, and although quite tall for a MW, his defense relied on a lot of movement from the waist (which i suppose he copied from his idol, Sugar Ray Leonard)--a smooth, fluid style that was a pleasure to watch

Pirog was also fearless; he agreed to fight Jacobs in Jacobs' hometown

Pirog was the underdog, indeed Pirog was chosen as an opponent so that Jacobs could win the (vacant) WBO belt in his home town, in front of his friends and family

Pirog quickly appeared on GGG's radar and two agreed to fight and a date had been set. Pirog pulled out due to a back injury, the same one that caused him to permanently retire from boxing

 

The wife of Valero was sent to the hospital several times for domestic violence and Valero would often go to the hospitals to threaten the personal if they spoke about it, this hapenned in Panamá as well if I'm right, there's nothing suspicious about it, the guy was extremely violent, he learned how to fight by fighting much larger men on the street as a kid.