Name talented boxers that COULD have been GOAT.

Edwin Valero and Finito Lopez. One owned DLH, EM, Antillon, and Santa Cruz in sparring as if they didnt belong in the same ring with him and embarassed a prime Panchito Bojado in the ams but died just as his real career was begining. The other, Lopez, never left the comfort zone of one weight division.

 

and paul williams.. he had such a long reach only if he had a decent trainer that teached him how to use his reach because everytime I saw him fight he fought in the inside for someone with his reach he shouldve always kept the fight on the outside.

 

i'm with you on that.

 

Well his 36 and his in a weak division plus to be ATG u need to dominate for years and I don't see that happening due to his age

 

I'll say Golota. He was the biggest disappointment of the last 15 years. Pressure and fame got to him and the injury from the car wreck took away his killer jab. One of the best heavyweight combo punchers of all time.

 

Scrolling down the names listed here, I can see why none of them is GOAT. Another ''if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle'' type of thread - lol.

 

Ike Ibeabuchi, David Tua, James Toney, Felix Savon, Mike Tyson, Riddick Bowe.

Btw i am shocked that nobody mentioned Andrew Golota so far, this guy was the real Ivan Drago in his Prime!

Unfortunately he is mentally ******ed and has a china chin

 

Les Darcy
Dave Sands

Theres 2.

 

Umm, 2 posts up.

 

That happened while i was typing my comment......

 

That's what I thought but I had to be like the anxious little kid in elementary school who knows the answer.

 

no wrong answer here. this is an IF thread.

 

Y'ALL MUSTA FORGOT!!! Does anybody remember SMW Roy Jones Jr? Prime Roy was the closest thing I've ever seen to perfect in the ring. I think we can agree that had he never made the leap up and STAYED at SMW or below, we'd be looking at his career from an entirely different perspective. It's hard to look at his body of work from afar and not be judgmental of his last several performances but this was a guy who at one point in his career went almost 10 years without losing a ROUND! Beat people in spectacular fashion, making them look stupid-sometimes with his hands behind his back!

 

golota couldn't handle the pressure, i agree with that. but not on him having a china chin. he had a very good chin. he could take a hell of a shot.