Which boxers were you most wrong about?

[Nile4000]

My list is as long as granberry's medicaid bill.

Greg Page, I thought he was goin' Way way way farther than he did....he had the talent...but not the will

Ed Mahone, I thought he was going places, got sucked into the USA hype.

Joe Calzaghe, I thought he WASN"T goin places I thought he was too slappy, turns out he's not.

Jeff Lacey....I thought he was goin places other than to the hospital after the Calzaghe fight

John Ruiz....Never thought he was going to be a force in the HW division

Chris Byrd....way underestimated him.....and learned to like him.

Jeff McCracken....I thought he was headin' to the top. You never heard of him? Yeah I know

James Toney, I thought he'd implode after the Jones fight. Turns out this guy is very stable in terms of psyche.

Duane Bobick....boy was I wrong on this one

Joe Mesi......Thought he was going to be a household name

Marlin Starling.....same thing

Willie "the worm" Monroe....I honestly thought he was going to be as dominating as Hagler ended up being.

Mike Tyson.....I thought the party was going to last WAY longer than it did.

Riddick Bowe....I thought he was going to be Tyson's greatest nemisis, and honestly thought HE was going to have the career that Lennox ended up having.

Ike Ibeabuchi, I thought he was going to change everything

I'm with you on Page and Starling, and I'm going to add Milton McCrory, Tony Tucker, and Bernard Taylor.

[yancey]

Ali, as a young teen I bet 5$ he would beat Smokin Joe that first time. Later i bet a couple dollars with a sucker that he'd "whip" that uknown Norton(opps). Then I was sure Big George would murderize Ali. I bet 60 dollars on Norton in their third(but controversial) match. I was picking up a date and bet her poor kid brother 10 bucks that he'd beat Neon Leon(I felt bad for taking advantage of him til Ali lost).

Matter of fact I lost every bet on a Ali fight over the years. I began to think he'd only lose if I bet on him to win.
But I had my day, it was easy to find people to take him when he fought Holmes. I won about as much as I lost over the years that night. Of course I quit betting on fights after that(kinda).

Not exactly what you were looking for in this thread, but I thought I'd share it with you just the same.

Well, your 60 bucks on Norton in the 3rd Ali fight was well-placed, you just got screwed by a rotten decision.

[Rossman]

Derrick "D-Train" Jefferson (HW) . . . I really thought the guy had all the tools to be relatively big time, but his star quickly faded . . . cool guy nonetheless . . .