Fighters who should have had better careers than they did

[Violent Demise]

Ricardo Mayorga had a better career than what was expected of him, he didn't become a big name until the Lewis fights, and it wasn't cause of his boxing skills, he wasn't expected to beat Forrest and did so twice so over achieved

Riddick Bowe is another example of an under achiever, was touted as being the next big long time king of the HW division and imploded

Juanma does fall into the category but in no way would I call him a small Kermit Cintron seeing how he accomplished more and has a better resume, his prime was just a very short one, and he lacked the discipline in and out of the ring to have a long career

Gamboa is making his way into this category with his inactivity and looking flat as of late, as does Guzman

It's funny how as irrelevant as Kermit Cintron is today (and he's pretty fucking irrelevant) he seems to have more left than Lopez. Lopez has never recovered from his first 2 losses. Salido ruined him

Kermit Cintron looked like shit the last time out, and despite having 3 TKO losses he never took the amount of damage that Lopez took in many of his fights not only the Salido fights, once Lopez abandoned his boxing skills and relied only on his power he started taking too much punishment to get the win, it wasn't just due to two fights, that's like saying that Collazo took away Hatton's chin, seeing how his punch resistance was shit in every fight following that

and lets remember that the irrelevant joke that is Cintron still managed to school Alfredo Angulo

Obviously it wasn't just the Salido fights that did him in. Journeyman bum Roger Mtagwa beat him like a slave and Marquez had him out on his feet before Tony Weeks made a rare mistake and gave Lopez almost a minute of recovery time. Lopez doesn't make it out the round without that break.

Anyway, I've heard that before. That Lopez abandoned his boxing skills and became just a slugger. Like if that is the reason for his downfall. It's not. Lopez stopped using them cuz they were mediocre at best. He would never of been champion as a boxer. He never beat a quality opponent by boxing. All his big wins were as a slugger. His power was his greatest asset. He would of been a fool not to take advantage of it.