Would have, Could have, Should have

I think of guys whose talent is greater than their career
James Toney
Mark Brelend
Donald Curry
Meldrick Taylor

 

I'm not exactly a Mayweather fan, but I'll say this. If I watched the bantam/early feather version of Hamed that you're alluding to and then watched any fight of Mayweather's, and came to the conclusion that Hamed was as difficult to hit cleanly as Mayweather in any way, I'd have an eye transplant. Or failing that, a brain transplant.

The early Hamed had an unusual style that sat well with his discombobulating power, but his tendency to take shots was, even at that stage, comical.

In the spirit of the thread, I'm going to say Willie Pastrano. Shagged and boozed his considerable prime away. You have to love him on principle.

 

good point

 

how about someone like Ricardo Lopez if only he had a stronger division and more competitition

 

yeah but ricardo win all that he could have won

 

Well Lopez never fought Carbajal for a start - he could have moved up in weight sooner. Or if the strawweight division had been deeper at the time and not full of non-entities, he'd be accepted as a bonafide ATG rather than as a master orthodox stylist who divides opinion and attracts constructive criticism due to poor opposition.

That said, I absolutely love to watch him.

 

Names that come to my mind:
Vargas, Judah, Tyson, Nunn, Watson, Cotto, Curry, Buster Douglas(a beast in Tokyo)