The list of fighters who hung in the fight game way to long is a long one.Sometimes they need the money sometimes they cant give up the adoration. Whatever it is , The result can be sad. Here is a short list, feel free to add. Ali of course, Leonard, Jerry Quarry, Hearns, more are entering my mind too many to list.
- poor ezzard lost 13 of his last 23 fights after marciano fights. by the end of ezzards career, he was so shot he was getting knocked out by the likes of george logan and donny fleeman
Very sad to see the situation with Taylor. One of my trainers used to tell me about Bobby Chacon and how when he leaves the house he carries a writing pad with his address to remember where he lives. Then the Jerry Quarry situation was a very sad one, I still got a poem of his that was in the boxing section of my local newpaper many years ago talking about his condition and the poem was about his ring career.
Duran to a certain extent... but he could still handle himself up to his last few fights, though the Joppy affair was very sad...
Wilfred Benitez is one that has paid a high price for a few fights too many....
Ya, that's probably true, for every guy like Gene Tunney who quiut while he was ahead you had a half dozen guys who stayed in to long or made an ill advised comeback. But the author of the thread stated way past their prime so I tried to list only examples I thought were extreme, where the guy went from being a champion to a stepping stone.
As I said in an earlier post,whoever liscences Taylor should be arrested. It would be very dangerous to put him in a ring again. These days he is slurring bad-real bad.
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