boxers moved too fast

[margaret thatcher]

fast tracking is nice, but sometimes it goes a little too fast

ivan drago was a beast of a fighter, but thrown in with a vastly more experienced world level opponent in his debut, and that eventually showed as drago started bright but was ground down late in a grueeling fight. drago with even 5 fights vs solid gatekeepers wouldve been more ready


what are other cases of pros who were simply moved too fast?

[bennie]

Davey Moore. He won the WBA light-middleweight title in his ninth pro outing and was ruined by Duran in his 13th.

[Controversial]

You don’t get much quicker than Pete Rademacher, he got a HW title shot against Floyd Patterson (32-1 record) in his pro debut, he was dropped many times but also dropped Patterson

[Londonirish]

fast tracking is nice, but sometimes it goes a little too fast

ivan drago was a beast of a fighter, but thrown in with a vastly more experienced world level opponent in his debut, and that eventually showed as drago started bright but was ground down late in a grueeling fight. drago with even 5 fights vs solid gatekeepers wouldve been more ready


what are other cases of pros who were simply moved too fast?

No shame in that loss to The One And Only Rocky Balboa

[Verdi]

Anthony Yarde.

[skanksta]

Panchito.

[margaret thatcher]

fast tracking is nice, but sometimes it goes a little too fast

ivan drago was a beast of a fighter, but thrown in with a vastly more experienced world level opponent in his debut, and that eventually showed as drago started bright but was ground down late in a grueeling fight. drago with even 5 fights vs solid gatekeepers wouldve been more ready


what are other cases of pros who were simply moved too fast?

No shame in that loss to The One And Only Rocky Balboa

[margaret thatcher]

good answers chappos

[brilo33]

george groves

[brilo33]

fast tracking is nice, but sometimes it goes a little too fast

ivan drago was a beast of a fighter, but thrown in with a vastly more experienced world level opponent in his debut, and that eventually showed as drago started bright but was ground down late in a grueeling fight. drago with even 5 fights vs solid gatekeepers wouldve been more ready


what are other cases of pros who were simply moved too fast?

he was the charles martin of his era

[Boxing Prospect]

Kwang Sun Kim seems like an obvious one

[margaret thatcher]

came so close to beating chiquita didnt he

[margaret thatcher]

there is a korean university professor with the same name who kinda looks like him....i assume its not the same guy though?

https://engr.ku.edu/kwang-sun-kim

[skanksta]

there is a korean university professor with the same name who kinda looks like him....i assume its not the same guy though?

https://engr.ku.edu/kwang-sun-kim

[margaret thatcher]

it would be kinda cool......professor and puncher. dont talk in class or he beat yo ass

[forestbox]

Ben Hall, hearn put him in with Carson Jones and got stopped, hasn't had fight since

[ThereByTheGrace]

Alex arthur. Fought gomez too soon and it showed

[Boxing Prospect]

there is a korean university professor with the same name who kinda looks like him....i assume its not the same guy though?

https://engr.ku.edu/kwang-sun-kim

Thought I'd check and...nah

Here's a relatively recent picture of him though
https://obj-sg.thewiki.kr/data/ed9598ea ... 6a7067.jpg

[margaret thatcher]

damn, i wanted to believe that he was the punching professor

[Foggy]

Didn’t JMM,s brother Rafael face a former world champion in his 3 fight or something like that

[Boxing Prospect]

Didn’t JMM,s brother Rafael face a former world champion in his 3 fight or something like that

Debut!
The world champion was Victor Rabanales

[brilo33]

Vasyl Lomachenko

[orbtastic]

David Reid, Olympic gold medal, pro title in his 10th fight? (Ironically for the same title Davey Moore held) Pitched in with Trinidad in his 13th fight, probably career ending altough his droopy eye was causing him issues before winning the title.

[margaret thatcher]

David Reid, Olympic gold medal, pro title in his 10th fight? (Ironically for the same title Davey Moore held) Pitched in with Trinidad in his 13th fight, probably career ending altough his droopy eye was causing him issues before winning the title.

got a right hammering in that fight after having some good moments himself

i remember him getting stopped by 'the punching policeman' sam hill in a fight that basically showed he was done for

[orbtastic]

Who was that Brazilian guy who was on a hot streak, got in with Cotto and took a pasting? I want to say Kermit but it wasn't Cintron. Talking of Kermit, he practically decapitated Matthysse's brother and that was almost career finito for him. There's one for the hairy chest thread.