Underachievers and Overachievers of Aussie boxing

What I want to see in this thread is who you guys think wasted their talent, didnt work out how you expected or just in general didnt live up to expectations. And also the guys who really punched above their ability and achieved more than you expected they would.

First the underachievers:

Justin Kane

Olympic quarterfinalist, Commonwealth gold medalist and certainly had youth on his side. Johnny Lewis said out of the 3 gold medalists from the Manchester games (Geale and Paul Miller being the other two) Kane had the style that would best suit the pros. Could have been pretty good, not much competition at his weight in Oz so he would have been into the internationals early but I think he prefered to go off work. Not sure about his fate.

Ben Cruz

Real up and comer a few years ago. A lot of people thought he could knock off Katsidas. Took a break from boxing and hit the mines, which I dont blame him for because though he was good, he probably wasnt going to become a world champ. And you can make some serious coin in the mines, a lot more then he was probably making. But got involved in with the bikies and got in some serious trouble, not sure how serious but he was still young, so it was such a waste of his life. Just to put it into pespective he last fight was 6 round schooling of Ranee Ganoy..what could have been.

The Overachievers:

Jason Delisle

When I first saw Jase struggle to a draw against Kariuki I thought this guy is fun to watch but not much else. No way in hell would have thought he would have gone on to fight all over the world against some very good fighters, fight in world title eliminators and amazingly a world title. Jase is a true warrior and took what little talent he had a long way with just hard work and a rock solid resolve.

Choc

Still more can be achieved. When I saw him vs Zohs I was suprised how good he was but thought he would just do it for publicity for a year or two and go back to Rugby League. He certainly has proved a lot of people wrong and the haters & rednecks have had a lot of humble pie to eat. Whether or not he has ever won a fair dinkum world title he beat two good fighters for his trinkets, gave a very good showing against two of the best fighters the weight division has seen and beat one of our better fighters of the last decade convincingly.
Maybe at the end of the his career people might see him as an underachiever because of his great talent. But I never expected this from a St George 5/8. (Go the sharks)

There are heaps more..who else you guys think?

 

How you figure teke?

Thats what I really want to know, there isnt really a right or wrong answer in this I just want to see how you guys see it.

 

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Yeah thats a good one Kegs.

Would Paul Miller be an underachiever?

Hard to gauge that one. Obviously an awesome amateur but the pros isnt for everyone.
Didnt have the power, killer instinct or style to go well in the pros. Was already showing a predisposition to cuts and injury. I just actually dont think he had what it takes to survive in the rough n tough world of pro boxing. So in a way its not that he underachieved, its just he wasnt meant to achieve that much as a pro.

Just so many good stories about him in the gym. Giving guys hell in sparring and having crazy fast hands.

 

Nice..Chris Hamilton was a good prospect, his fight against Comer was apparently a war. I didnt get to see it but seems Chris was never the same after it.
From memory he beat Geale several times in the ams.

 

Talking about Green.

Soliman was one of the very good fighters he beat to get one of his trinkets.