Confession Time

[Tony1244]

Name a fighter or 3 that you were Really Really High on. You thought this guy was the 2nd coming and then he flopped.

He could have won a title, or not, but he never got close to the greatness you predicted.


For me, I thought Vinny Pazienza was going to be great. I'll add in Michael Grant and before that Duane Bobick. I did say this is a confession Subject.

[The Law]

Jorge Luis Gonzalez. I told all my friends that he beat both Riddick Bowe and Lennox Lewis on the same day in the amateurs. He clearly didn't live up to the hype ......

[pugilisticprofessor]

Featherweight from the 90's named Angel Vasquez, really thought we was going to be special.

[tanibanana]

Juan Manuel Lopez - I felt he'll go as far or better than Tito, not really flopped but the expectations were high.
Edwin Valero - Not that he flopped, but his action outside of boxing.. tsk.
can't think of my 3rd right now.

[Datsue]

Goyo Vargas
Kazuto Ioka (who still has time to prove me right, or wrong, depending on which way you look at it)
& at a much lesser level, yeeeeeeears ago I really wanted Skipper Kelp to do really well, 'cos, well, Skipper Kelp.

[pugilisticprofessor]

Panchito Bojado, well others thought he would be special, I had doubts but thought at lest he would have done better than he did.

[IKSRTFO]

Kermit Cintron
Edison Miranda
Zahir Raheem (not that I though he'd be great, but thought his career would've been better)
Jeff Lacy

[walter5]

Jaidon Codrington…….Had friends over to watch the Allen Green fight. Ugh.

[ReggieDiggs]

Samesis on Jorge & Bojado. My biggest failure is probably Andre Dirrell. I always say hes the 2nd best amateur I've seen live (the first being Floyd) & hes not lived up to that standard @ all.

[Cutman Scabbers]

Jorge Luis Gonzalez. I told all my friends that he beat both Riddick Bowe and Lennox Lewis on the same day in the amateurs. He clearly didn't live up to the hype ......

Why didn't he, anyway?

Didn't train hard?

[pugilisticprofessor]

There was another Cuban that had the same problem, Ramon Garbey, these guys are used to having nothing then coming to the US and enjoying the fruits of their labor and end up forgetting the labor.
Garbey seem to be having success as a trainer now days though.

[crusader]

I thought Victor Ortiz was probably going to be something special and do far more than he did.

[pugilisticprofessor]

I thought Victor Ortiz was probably going to be something special and do far more than he did.

He did more than I thought he would.

[hulkmaniac]

Chad Dawson
Tavoris Cloud
Andre Dirrell

[jas80s]

I really thought Ismayl Syllakh looked like he had all the tools to be a top fighter. I am sure I could think of others...

[pugilisticprofessor]

I really thought Ismayl Syllakh looked like he had all the tools to be a top fighter. I am sure I could think of others...

I always knew that once Ismayl took one on the chin that he would fall because he was very chinny in the amateurs but I was shocked that Grachev was the one to do it.

[hulkmaniac]

I forgot Lucian Bute

[Horse]

Ricky Hatton.

[pugilisticprofessor]

Zahir Raheem (not that I though he'd be great, but thought his career would've been better)

He was a victim of piss poor management, schooled Morales before Manny ever beat him and still never got a shot.

[uptconnect]

I thought Ricardo Williams Jr had a sweet style and would do far more with his talent than he did.

[cletomex]

Edison Miranda

[Lenny Cravats]

I did, being a Sheffield lad, get caught up in that mid-late-nineties Ingle Fever. I thought Ryan Rhodes was a sure fire world champ and that Pele Reid would be a big star.

[IKSRTFO]

Zahir Raheem (not that I though he'd be great, but thought his career would've been better)

He was a victim of piss poor management, schooled Morales before Manny ever beat him and still never got a shot.

He did get a shot...at Freitas and ha another opportunity to raise his stakes by beating Funeka. Poor management didn't stink his way to lose to a faded Freitas nor get KO'd by Funeka. I thought he would've been good enough to beat both guys at the levels they were on.

[nick henry]

Naseem Hamed. I loved the Prince but what a letdown in the end.

[Federiqo]

Alfredo Angulo
Dante Jardon