Who in boxing wasted their talent?

I'm actually a big fan of his but Corrie Sanders I believe could have achevied a lot more.

 

Mando Ramos - it was said that he never met a drink, a drug or a woman he didn't like. Washed up at 24.

 

Jose Luis Lopez. Nuff said.

 

I'll take Oliver "Atomic Dog" McCall for $300, Alex.

 

I agree with all of these. Tyson had the ability to focus and keep winning for another 2 or 3 years and that would have helped his legacy. Camacho? I am surprised he let that one punch from Rosario change him so much. Rosario's punch was probably so much harder than anyone else who would have fought him. Nunn? Sometimes I think the Kalambay fight got to his rhythm. You would think a loss would do it, but he actually thought he could punch after that and it changed the way he fought a little and it made him more flatfooted. I remember how much Roldan hit him. When he beat Tate, I would have thought Roldan wouldn't touch him at all.

 

maybe. Although then he has to deal with a big Lennox and Bowe, which were big guys. The one guy I thought who could have beaten him was a little better than everyone he fought in the early years like 1987?.. He was Tim Witherspoon. Just the style and size of Tim.. The right hand and Tim in shape and motivated gives Mike a tough tough fight. And Mike would have a hard time stopping Tim.

 

Dempsey.

Took way to much time off after he became champ, and milked it , wasting his greatest years.

 

Toney had a great career but was out of shape a lot later on.

 

I'm convinced the Nunn style change---he went from gliding around the ring to a slugger--was due to management. The Goosen's were new on the scene and not power brokers. Later on they became a force but not then. Showtime would have preferred slugging to boxing a guys ears off for 12 rounds & the Goosens did not the pull at that time to tell them our guy does what he does.

I think they tried to please the networks and had Michael turn flatfooted. Remember that Barkley fight---that guy should have been made to order for a tall southpaw that circled the ring. But Nunn was trading. And fighting in the pocket. Same thing with Roldan---Nunn is trying to back the guy up from the opening bell.

As a boxer, Nunn was a special talent. As a slugger, he wasn't. Every now and then he'd glide around the ring and show his mobility and legs were still there. But then he'd be planting those feet again and trading hooks. So I really don't think his legs had gone, but maybe those legs had actually deteriorated by that much. I just could not pick up on it, but maybe others see something I'm missing. I am of the conscious effort to change style as opposed to the physical subtraction point of view with Nunn.

I'm also of the opinion that a trainer that loves boxers--an Angie Dundee or a Ritchie Giachetti--could have done a wonderful job with him. But not the Goosen's.

 

But not for the early development from the word go. And he did not have a long tenureship with the guy, not several.

 

Never been understood theyWho myth of Tony Ayala. Good fighter, nothing more or less.

 

Definitely Greg Page and Howard Davis jr. With a side order of Donald Curry.