Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 16 May 2023, 13:29
I’ll start off
Michael Spinks
Marvin Hagler
Lennox Lewis
Carlos Monzon
Michael Spinks
Marvin Hagler
Lennox Lewis
Carlos Monzon
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Boxers that retired at the right moment
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Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 16 May 2023, 13:30
Andre Ward, Tim Bradley.
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 16 May 2023, 13:51
Ernesto Marcel
Horacio Accavallo
Vitali Klitschko
Jim Watt
Ricardo Lopez
Agustin Senin
Horacio Accavallo
Vitali Klitschko
Jim Watt
Ricardo Lopez
Agustin Senin
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 16 May 2023, 14:23
Marciano
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 16 May 2023, 15:16
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.
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.
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 16 May 2023, 15:43
Danny Williams
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 17 May 2023, 21:00
Danny Green
Floyd Mayweather
Carl Froch
Floyd Mayweather
Carl Froch
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 18 May 2023, 14:11
Calzaghe
Ottke
Ricardo Lopez
Ward
Hasegawa
Tunney
Hamed
Carbajal
Nelson
Kostya
Humberto Gonzalez
Ottke
Ricardo Lopez
Ward
Hasegawa
Tunney
Hamed
Carbajal
Nelson
Kostya
Humberto Gonzalez
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 18 May 2023, 16:28
Wladimir Klitschko
George Foreman
George Foreman
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 18 May 2023, 20:17
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 18 May 2023, 21:45
Joe Becerra
Raul "Raton" Macias
Vicente Saldivar
Jiro Watanabe
Yoko Gushiken
Nino Benvenutti
Carlos Monzon
Raul "Raton" Macias
Vicente Saldivar
Jiro Watanabe
Yoko Gushiken
Nino Benvenutti
Carlos Monzon
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 19 May 2023, 09:13
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 19 May 2023, 14:58
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.
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.
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 20 May 2023, 14:01
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.Bodyshot3 wrote: ↑19 May 2023, 14:58 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.
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 14 Jun 2023, 09:43
Calzaghe
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 14 Jun 2023, 12:41
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.
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.
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 14 Jun 2023, 12:56
carl froch
naseem hamed
naseem hamed
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 14 Jun 2023, 13:31
Re: Boxers that retired at the right moment
Posted: 14 Jun 2023, 16:12
maybe. but he didnt have it anymore edwardhitman_hatton1 wrote: ↑14 Jun 2023, 13:31i doubt too many will agree with that.
he should have at least given brodie a payday.