Unlucky fighters

What about David tua? The guy destroyed ruiz fast and easy and ruiz in some point was champion of the world.tua was unlucky because he could have won at least a belt.however he had to face lewis

 

Tua should have won something. Looks like he had a discipline problem with his weight. Some fights he's lighter and in shape and destroys people like Ruiz other times he shows up and he's heavy and doesn't let his hands go enough. Hot an cold all the time.
I always thought he was a big guy not tall but big. I met him in AC in one of his last fights where he got dropped and he just seemed small . He was in his street cloth though then I saw him in the ring the next night and he looked big again. Just a strange observation I guess. BTW super kool very soft spoken man.

 

The Monte Barret bout, correct? I remember watching those two bouts at something like four or five in the morning (I'm on the East coast of the US, fights took place in New Zealand I think) and being pretty captivated by it all, despite it really just being two fights between two pretty past it heavyweight contenders.

 

Taylor was not a huge underdog. He was very highly thought of at the time.

 

Tua was massive.226 pounds for a 5'9 guy is huge.his legs were like 2 trunks. I am 6'1 and 225 pounds and i see myself skinny next to david

 

Yes the first fight in AC one of my son's was boxing at the time. We hit the weight it on the boardwalk and my son got pics with both fighters. Then came back the next night for the fight. Was shocked when Tua got dropped I thought he was gonna run Barrett out of the ring after coming off I believe a big win in NZ? He was lethargic though

 

I thought the same thing!! I'm 6.0 230 and I have a pic shaking his hand and he just looks kinda small in street cloth. In the ring he looks like a tank!!!

 

Tua just wasn't good enough plain and simple, he got completely humiliated by the best dighters he fought in Byrd and Lewis.

 

Sure but he was definitely unlucky with referee choice. I think most Refs would have let that one go....

 

Bomber Graham.As said before took a sucker punch from Jackson after beating him up for three rounds bumped into kalabay when nobody knew how good he was .Then latter was frozen out by Eubank Benn Watson and colins .Bad luck and bad decisions.

 

Michael Watson. His injury was a whiplash caused by the bottom rope. If he was just six inches either further forward or back, his neck doesn't snap, he survives the two seconds to the end of the round (without Lou Duva in his corner) and hands Eubank his first defeat, thus entering the super middleweight money-go-round of the early 90s.

Instead, he has had to endure years of severe disability. He has done magnificently to carve out a positive life for himself but I doubt he'd say he wouldn't change a thing if you asked him.

 

Salvador Sanchez. If he didn't get into that car that day.....

 

Yaqui Lopez at LtHvy.

 

Jimmy Young, Yaqui Lopez

 

I also think Watson got screwed by the judges the first time he fought Eubank.

Taylor wasn’t a huge underdog against Chavez. They were both highly regarded. Chavez was a slight, or maybe mild, favorite.

Taylor was unlucky in a sense that he was in such a talented WW division. Chavez or no Chavez, he was going to have problems when he moved up to such a talented 147 lb division, mixed in with his own weaknesses.