Boxers that retired at the right moment

[jaouad]

I’ll start off

Michael Spinks
Marvin Hagler
Lennox Lewis
Carlos Monzon

[Alguiffer]

Andre Ward, Tim Bradley.

[giacomino]

Ernesto Marcel
Horacio Accavallo
Vitali Klitschko
Jim Watt
Ricardo Lopez
Agustin Senin

[Controversial]

Marciano

[Billy Tully]

Hagler and M. Spinks are the modern examples that always spring to mind for me.

Marciano I wish had stuck around for one more fight, not just to go 50-0 but to smash up Nino Valdez and provide hyper critical internet nerds of the future footage of him bludgeoning a big man.

[evrenb]

Danny Williams

[Perseus]

Danny Green
Floyd Mayweather
Carl Froch

[orbtastic]

Calzaghe
Ottke
Ricardo Lopez
Ward
Hasegawa
Tunney
Hamed
Carbajal
Nelson
Kostya
Humberto Gonzalez

[jaouad]

Wladimir Klitschko
George Foreman

[hhaehre]

Danny Williams

Leon Spinks

[elmersalsa]

Joe Becerra
Raul "Raton" Macias
Vicente Saldivar
Jiro Watanabe
Yoko Gushiken
Nino Benvenutti
Carlos Monzon

[Jaywheel]

Danny Williams

Leon Spinks

Adonis Stevenson

[Bodyshot3]

Nigel Benn......the vital spark he needed was just not there any more and he'd already given it absolutely everything.
I was glad Nigel pulled down the shutters when he did, it could have got ugly-embarrassing for him.

McGuigan as well. Jim McDonnell was a top drawer fighter but McGuigan fancied his chances but was never really able to get at Jim in that fight and then got a horrific cut anyway. All the money was at super-feather then and Barry had already invested too much to go through a prolonged rebuild to get a crack at the other players. Wise choice to call it quits.

Maybe Haye too.....a pair of losses to Bellew showed David it was over. The speed had gone and so had the resilience and to get right back at HW he was going to have to face some nastier and bigger stuff than Bellew.

[Billy Tully]

Nigel Benn......the vital spark he needed was just not there any more and he'd already given it absolutely everything.
I was glad Nigel pulled down the shutters when he did, it could have got ugly-embarrassing for him.

McGuigan as well. Jim McDonnell was a top drawer fighter but McGuigan fancied his chances but was never really able to get at Jim in that fight and then got a horrific cut anyway. All the money was at super-feather then and Barry had already invested too much to go through a prolonged rebuild to get a crack at the other players. Wise choice to call it quits.

Maybe Haye too.....a pair of losses to Bellew showed David it was over. The speed had gone and so had the resilience and to get right back at HW he was going to have to face some nastier and bigger stuff than Bellew.

You've picked guys who all went out on ignominious defeats. Benn's two meek efforts against Collins were pitiful and he was booed out of the ring for quitting in the rematch. Haye going from Mormeck, Valuev, Ruiz and Klitschko to back to back stoppages to Tony Bellew was beyond humiliating. Those performances were an awful note to go out on.

[Ezzard]

Calzaghe

[gilgamesh]

Lennox Lewis
Kostya Tszyu
Marvin Hagler (the only one of the 4 Kings who did)
Juan Manuel Marquez
Tim Bradley
Andre Ward
Gene Tunney
Jim Braddock (one of the more cunning moves ever by a manager to get Braddock the deal he got)

I'm sure there's others, but these are some that come to mind for now.

[Steveh583]

carl froch
naseem hamed

[hitman_hatton1]

naseem hamed

i doubt too many will agree with that.

he should have at least given brodie a payday.

[Steveh583]

naseem hamed

i doubt too many will agree with that.

he should have at least given brodie a payday.

maybe. but he didnt have it anymore edward