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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.

ezzard charles



- 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

Decagon wrote:Let's just hope that some of our older fighters, like Tyson, Lewis, Moorer, Holyfield, Taylor and Foreman, don't have another fight.

Whoever licsenses Taylor should be arrested.

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.

Roberto Duran...He fought on for over twenty years past his best. Some fighters make a career out of half of that.

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....

Holyfield!

Matthew Saad Mohaumed, Iran Barkley, Simon Brown

Really it'd be harder to pick a list of fighters who quit at the right time... most fighters seem to have 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.

Hector "Macho" Camacho still fighting way past his prime.

How the hell could anyone leave out ray robinson

Jimmy Young.

One of the most highly skilled Heavyweights of the modern era fought on so far past his best that he even lost to Chuck Gardner .

Very sad, he deserved better than that.

Also Leon Spinks.

KOJOE90 wrote:Jimmy Young.

One of the most highly skilled Heavyweights of the modern era fought on so far past his best that he even lost to Chuck Gardner .

Very sad, he deserved better than that.

Also Leon Spinks.

I agree with Jimmy young but leon spinks he was never good

Bradley001 wrote:

KOJOE90 wrote:Jimmy Young.

One of the most highly skilled Heavyweights of the modern era fought on so far past his best that he even lost to Chuck Gardner .

Very sad, he deserved better than that.

Also Leon Spinks.

I agree with Jimmy young but leon spinks he was never good

I disagree on your view on Spinks but either way you must admit he fought on long past his 'best'.

Yeah but his best was never good

Bradley001 wrote:Yeah but his best was never good

I think we will have to agree to disagree on Spinks ability.

Bradley001 wrote:Yeah but his best was never good

It was good enougth to win an OLimpic gold and the world title!.... not bad for someone who was no good!...

borinken25 wrote:Hector "Macho" Camacho still fighting way past his prime.

I hear that Meldrick Taylor may be coming back to fight Camacho in a legends fight on a Chavez/Chavez jnr undercard.

How badly shot is Taylor?

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.

Joe Louis