What happened with Jorge Luis Gonzalez ?

He was too coc-ky
For his first few fights he didn’t even have a trainer in his corner, he fought that highly of himself. He looked good on the way up, deliberately prolonged the beating of Renaldo Snipes, he was about to fight Bowe and with already defeating him before and dropping him heavily in the amateurs combined with his big ego what he had, he fought he would easily beat Bowe, he was trashing him in the buildup, comes into the fight clearly untrained because he thinks he doesn’t need to, then takes a beating off of Bowe, gets KO’d and never recovers mentally again, when your ego is that big, when it suddenly gets shattered the way it did with him, you often never recover from it

 

He just plain kind of sucked as a pro.

 

Lack of development in the pros. I read he didn't like to train and partied way too much. He basically had size and a good jab and right. He stood stock straight and had a very mediocre defense. His chin wasn't the best either.

 

He was never a feared contender. He was a prospect crushed by Bowe in his first legitimate test. Wikipedia says he was a feared contender. Anyone can write a bio on Wikipedia.

 

Just couldn't hack it in the pros probably. He got in over his head with Bowe and got a beating. Never really recovered.

 

Perfect description!

 

Found his level as soon as he upped his opposition,A nasty bully.

 

Don't sugarcoat it Rules!

 

According to Dino he was a carbon copy of Vitali.

 

I think he was too nonchalant. He’d beaten Lewis and Bowe in the amateurs and he felt like he was owed whatever they had made of themselves the second he turned up as a pro. In truth he was probably on borrowed time anyway..not that he thought he was. He had not really paid his dues by the time he took a beating from Riddick Bowe. In that fight he looked like had not yet fully adapted to the pace of the pros. He worked just hard enough for the first thirty seconds of a round to show he could outbox Bowe if he wanted to..then kind of laid back looking to sucker Bowe in. I can’t decide if that was to recover from his exertions or a plan that didn’t work out. Either way it didn’t work out and no matter how hard Bowe hit him Jorge always looked like he still thought he had Bowes number. He would land when he felt like it and expected he’d catch up with him. But if I remember, eventually he just couldn’t recover from all the shots he was taking. It was like he had foolishly miscalculated or something. He wound up taking a bad beating and falling onto his head. Whatever he had, He wasn’t going to be the same after that.

 

Rum, cigars and too many (hidden) birthday candles.

 

His "bout" against a shot Snipes is among my least favorite ever.

 

I dare say, the local tournaments were at times harder than some of the international competitions!


As mentioned age and lack of dedication were his downfall.


It would have been interesting to see his development if Castro's Cuba had allowed pros. Physically he looked more impressive than both Stevenson and Savon. So Gonzales hitting his pro stride in the mid 80s could have boosted a division that was a little bit lackluster at the time. And a fight with prime Tyson might still be talked about in the mainstream today.

 

Riddick Bowe brutalized and beat the living hell out of him. One of Bowe's best performances. Utterly relentless and powerful.