Ones you picked right/Ones you picked wrong

Mikey Garcia, but what the eff has he been doing in 2014.

 

I thought Seth Mitchell could do alright. Make for at least an exciting contender...... Boy was I wrong

 

I was wrong about Mark Breland and wrong with Wayne McCullough thought he was going to be a future Hall of Famer. Then old man Daniel Zaragoza put on a masterclass, I was in shock.

 

Agree on Breland, but the guy was a world champ and he did win some big fights.


With the heavies, I like watching them early, long before they have 10 rounders. Trouble is they match them with guy's with a history of being ko'd or losing so it's tough to guage things when everything opponent wise is C or D level.

I thought Courage Tshabalala was going to be something. he had that terrific amatuer career and was an exciting big hitter. Still never understood the Duva/Durant thing.

Agree with Bummy on Knoetze. Big big hitter and he was a tough guy with that rugby background. That Frazier bout being postponed really seemed to stall things a bit. But that Tate fight was real bad. He was taken apart in there. Lots of times those guys taken aprt are never anywhere near as good and he certainly wasn't. I also think he was the guy that should have had his hand raised in that Coetzee bout.

Pinklon Thomas. He looked good on his way up when he was a guy way down on the undercards. He did manage to get to the top but like lots of guys, couldn't stay there. I thought his jab and chin and conditioning were going to see him stay at the elite level. But he was another guy that puts on 8 or 10 pounds and loses a lot of his game.

Corrie Sanders. Another guy already mentioned. He had some devastating early ko's on the way up. Needed much better management/trainer and to move to England or America and develop.

Lee Canalito. Big guy & Stallone's guy. I thought we were going to see some new blood and get away from the Arum/King stranglehold on things. As soon as things got to the 10 round level, everything died overnight.

 

Not really greats, but I picked up in The Ring results on this young fighter from Puerto Rico making his debut called Felix Trinidad. Also saw Henry Maske's debut, and could see he was going to be a threat in the division. Although he was not exactly young.

The worse bust I can think of was Terry Davis. An early article was calling him 'the white Tyson'; I thought I had better keep an eye on him...

 

Thought Cesar Canchila would make something of himself after beating the heavily hyped Segura first time round.

He fell to bits after that. Segura got better and better

 

Terry was a Weaver sparring partner, if memory serves. And some folks think Weaver really damaged the career of another sparring partner, Alex Garcia. Mike probably was tougher than the opponents they were fighting.

 

What happened with Canalito? Seemed like he just disappeared, despite being an undefeated heavyweight with good backing. Per BoxRec, he now owns a boxing gym in Houston.

 

I thought De la Hoya would massacre tiny Pacquiao with the lead left hand. Jabs and hooks all night. Almost put serious money on it. DLH had such a chin and such strength in his lead hand and Pacquiao was not an elusive fighter, it looked the safest bet in the world to me...

I thought Gamboa would go further.

I thought Pavlik would knock out Hopkins.

Man, I suck.

 

not ever sure exactly how he exited the sport overnight. And it was just that, overnight. Undefeated and gone and disappeared. Never an explanation after his movie stint. But Stallone was trying to take on the sport's biggest powers at the time with him.

I have never heard much of what I consider to be valid reason's for a young heavy like that to just quit the sport when there was gold at the end of the rainbow.....he had what 3 fights maybe and he'd be near the top? And there were certainly name fighters around that could be beat. A real mystery with how all of that played out.