Quote Originally Posted by THE THIRD MAN View Post
Zab stands out for me here, never recovered from that KO by Tszyu. He has had some good wins but generally has been disappointing since his first loss.

Meldrick Taylor comes to mind and Roy Jones Jr just couldn't come to grips with Tarver and has been average at best since.

George Foreman went awol after the Ali loss, had a good second win over Frazier but the invincibility was gone within two years and he retires at age 27?

I will be interested to see how Cotto comesback after his first loss, many fighters comeback better than ever such as Whitaker, Tszyu and more recently Darchinyan. I think the jury is still out on Hatton. A lot of this fight game is pyschological and it all depends on how you prepare yourself physically and more importantly approach your next fight mentally. Zab for example just hasn't coped well at all.
Agree a bit on Taylor and Roy, but can't agree at all on Zab, Hatton & Foreman. Yes, it was a shocking KO for Zab, but its not like he didn't become the real welterweight champ of the world after that, which doesn't identify a fighter who was 'never the same'. Same with Foreman, he would have the win over Moorer and he beat Frazier badly again. I think saying he folded is going way too far, it's just Ali exposed how to beat him. Also Ricky has more than enough excuses in his own mind for his loss, even if they are mostly bollocks, for him to be over it. Should Pac batter him than I think he may well be finished, because the welterweight, Joe Cortez & 'it was Floyd Mayweather' lines won't work any more.

The one fighter who really sticks out is Don Curry, and of current fighters who I think it may have got are the obvious ones like Cotto & Pavlik, and also Katsidis, I think the Casamayor fight may have screwed him up in the sense of knowing he can't simply outslug the best fighter. He's still an exciting fighter, but he's no longer as dominating as I thought he'd be