Poor management, career choices

Jones did fine without Steward.

 

Riddick Bowe should have taken the option of defending against Lewis in 93 after winning the title against Holyfield. At that point I wouldva put big money on him beating Lewis. Instead he gave up the wbc title, had a couple of easy defences and then got fat and complacent in the rematch against Holyfield. Just stupid management and bad decision making all round.

 

Vargas fought Trinidad at the best time he could. Vargas was never gonna be good for much longer due to back problems and Tito was gonna move up. Vargas was just limited and overconfident.

 

Oleg Maskaev was thrown to the wolves to start his career. It eventually worked out for him anyway.

Broner has done fine in terms of money, but could've been dominating 135 until recently if he stayed there.

 

I could definitely see him doing better under other circumstances.

He seems to be the very model of a champion who failed to make key fights when he had the chance.

 

22 year old Erikson Lubin was just sparked out inside of a round in a fight most felt he wasn't nearly ready for.

 

You beat me to it. That was a bad move.

 

I always thought alex stewart was badly managed. But even with better management his ceiling is still not all that high. Maybe he could have been a Botha type guy at best===the kind of guy that gets numerous title shots when other managers are looking for a soft touch for their guy.

But I never thought he should have fought holyfield. Wrong style for alex and he fights the guy twice. Southpaw Moorer was another guy to avoid and pretty much any southpaw. Maybe if he could have had some work on his defense wouldn't have hurt either.

 

Meldrick wanted a pay day. Chavez was not willing to
Move up a weight class or to give Meldrick a rematch at this time. I agree it was not a pairing that did any favors to Meldrick, but there really was no other major draw outside of A Chavez rematch

 

David Reid was not ready for Trinidad, and would have been better served gradually building up to that level for another 3-5 fights

 

Maskaev's team matched him like they hated him

 

Reid had a degenerative eyelid condition and kind of needed to take the payday while it was there. His level of opposition and am experience were reasonable enough for him to take that fight. He won the first half of it at least.

 

With that horror reel of crushing ko defeats that he had, I was utterly amazed that he managed to ko Rahman a second time.