fighters ruined by first loss

[margaret thatcher]

any one come to mind?

[bigjack]

Jeff Lacy ?

[margaret thatcher]

[bigjack]

Broner,Tyrell Biggs

[Steveh583]

bute. rico hoye. naseem hamed.

[bennie]

New York's Davey Moore was unbeaten and the defending WBA light-middleweight champion against a supposedly finished Roberto Duran in Madison Square Garden in the summer of 1983. Duran dished out a horrible beating in front of a shell-shocked referee until desperate ringsiders convinced Moore's manager, Leon Washington, to throw in the towel in the eighth round. Moore, who split with Washington afterwards, was a shadow of himself in the years that followed, although he did get another crack at a world title and was stopped by Philly's Buster Drayton in 10 rounds. He tragically died in 1988 when he was pinned under his own car as it began rolling down his drive and he sought to stop it. His death, at the age of 28, was horribly coincidental with that of another Davey Moore, who died after losing his world featherweight title to Sugar Ramos in 1963 at the age of 29.

[Lenny Cravats]

Deontay Wilder

[Pugilist-specialist]

any one come to mind?

Josh Warrington?

[mickey1975]

Wilder and Lacy are good shouts. Meldrick Taylor took his well and went on to be an author.

[Bigdogsnose]

Mitchell smith

Mike jones

[Rockytony67]

Matthew Hilton

[Stobbo]

Honeyghan.

[Verdi]

Honeyghan.

Don Curry who Honeyghan beat.

[forcefraser]

Wilder and Lacy are good shouts. Meldrick Taylor took his well and went on to be an author.

Taylor was a great fighter, but his skills as an author are far more impressive.

Shocking how people only remember him as a punch drunk Phllly fighter who was stopped with 1 second on the clock, rather than an author of undoubted talent. They should make his work compulsory study in secondary schools

[gilgamesh]

Deontay Wilder

Can you see into the future? Because he hasn't fought since that loss.

[gilgamesh]

Jeff Lacy ?

Jeff Lacy was the first name that came to mind for me as well.

David Reid is another one.

[MasterG]

I was going to say Andrew Flintoff but he won his first fight, im going to have a rethink

[bigjack]

Honeyghan.

Don Curry who Honeyghan beat.

Yes,never the same force after that beating.

[bigjack]

Maybe not ruined but certainly went down hill was Jones Jr.After Tarver that is.

[TheGoods]

Wilder and Lacy are good shouts. Meldrick Taylor took his well and went on to be an author.

Made me laugh this.

Never thought Hatton was quite the same after Mayweather but still had a few decent nights so never ‘ruined’.

Foreman took 20 years to get over his but found redemption.

Lacy and Naz probably the most dramatic examples.

[MasterG]

Could you actually say Tyson after getting beat by Buster Douglas? Imo Tyson was fighter who scared the chit out of everyone, so in terms of the question certainly in my generation Mike Tyson should hold the mantel in this question

[Switch hitter]

Always remember Jaidon Codrington getting ko'd in seconds by Allen Green....

[maverick23]

David Price was never the same after the first Thompson loss. A lot of people would have favoured him to beat Fury at the time too.

[gilgamesh]

Could you actually say Tyson after getting beat by Buster Douglas? Imo Tyson was fighter who scared the chit out of everyone, so in terms of the question certainly in my generation Mike Tyson should hold the mantel in this question

He didn't have the aura of Invincibility anymore, but he wasn't ruined. To me ruined is like you basically never managed another really significant win after the loss.

[MasterG]

David Price was never the same after the first Thompson loss. A lot of people would have favoured him to beat Fury at the time too.

Great answer