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Anybody care to share who they got wrong

froch

Ricky burns
Watched him lose to Alex Arthur and thought he would be a domestic gatekeeper. So so wrong, and happy to be wrong.

Probably plenty over the years, but Froch stands out the most. If I'm honest, I didn't think he'd go much beyond British level.

Jamie McDonnell and Stuart Hall

Tyson Fury. After those two fights against McDermott I thought he had nothing to offer. Best of luck to him he is improving with each fight that goes by.

Clinton Woods. Not only won a world belt but had a decent spell as champ.

Definitely Froch and Burns (both mentioned above).

I know Froch had good amateur pedigree but until he fought Pascal we simply didnt know how tough and unrelenting he really was.

I got a shout out from Buncey back in the Setanta days after texting in saying Froch was the closest thing we had to an unbeatable fighter

I can see greatness

Johnny Nelson.

I remember wahing live Scott Harrison losing to Miguel Mathews

Without a doubt Ricky Burns. After the Johanneson defeat I was at a small hall show in Linwood watching my mates pro debut and there was Ricky on the card! Just over three years later I'm watching him beat Martinez in the Kelvin hall for the world title. Great story. Went back to the drawing board with Billy Nelson and done it the hard way!

Calzaghe

More recent, danny Garcia is exceeding wat I thought he was capable of.

Duke McKenzie.

Underrated to this day, in my humble opinion.

Anthony Crolla for me. Never thought he'd get past British level

littlepug wrote:froch

Same; on the way up when Tony Dodson was British Champion, I actually thought Dodson had a good shout at beating him!

ThereByTheGrace wrote:Tyson Fury. After those two fights against McDermott I thought he had nothing to offer. Best of luck to him he is improving with each fight that goes by.

Same here. He first seemed poorly disciplined, but now is improving and has much better direction in his career.

Definitely Johnny Nelson.

After the two most pathetic world title challenges I'd ever seen against DeLeon & Warring, I thought Nelson would wither & die & not amount to much.

Although he's not an ATG, he went on to become a good & dominant 'champion'.

Fair play to Nelson for turning his career around like that.

Josh1111 wrote:Anthony Crolla for me. Never thought he'd get past British level

Do you think he has yet?

Paul Butler

If he wins his fight next week he will have become a 2 weight World Champion, I never thought he'd get that far.

froch without a doubt totally turned my way of thinking about him the upmost respect for him now! total professsional. also khan hasnt quite got there for me yet but theres not many fighters willing to do what he has by training abroad and improving so much some other british fighters should take note of what can be achieved.

Dennis Andries. He was awful to watch and awful to fight.

Froch for me too, totally underestimated what a beast he is.

Also
Robin Reid
Jacob Matlala
Terry Norris
Glenn McCrory

GGG

Derry Matthews
Chris Saunders
Jon Jo Irwin
Paul Ingle
Richard Evatt (he'd been knocked cold a few times as an amateur)
Colin Dunne
Terry Flanagan (he's surprised me already)